Japan vs Norway: Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric

Japan

0.8567

in 2020

Norway

0.8412

in 2020

Japan rank

2nd

Norway rank

5th

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

Japan
Norway

How they compare

Japan currently reports 0.8567 against 0.8412 in Norway, a difference of 0.0155.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Norway ahead.

Japan ranks 2nd and Norway ranks 5th of 162 countries.

Individual pages

Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric in Japan
Augmented Human Development Index: with vs. without income metric in Norway
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.