Italy vs Spain: Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric

Italy

0.6947

in 2020

Spain

0.692

in 2020

Italy rank

27th

Spain rank

29th

Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric over time

Italy
Spain

How they compare

Italy currently reports 0.6947 against 0.692 in Spain, a difference of 0.0027.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Spain ahead.

Italy ranks 27th and Spain ranks 29th of 162 countries.

Individual pages

Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric in Italy
Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric in Spain
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric
Source: Leandro Prados de la Escosura (2021) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 163 places, 3,421 data points, 1870–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The AHDI seeks to give a historical perspective on human development, in four dimensions: healthy life, knowledge, a decent standard of living, and civil and political freedom.