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176.42.140.28 (talk) 14:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to be able to edit pages on Wikipedia to contribute services and the like to Wikipedia itself, as I also do research and whatnot from multiple sources, those of which I will do up-to-date & state-of-the-art editions for.

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 14:59, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chart changed, not showing year-by-year data?

Sorry if this is formatted wrong, 1st time ever using a talk board for a page. I swear this page used to have a way to look at the data for each country for each report over the last 10 or so years & now its just showing the most recent (and looking squished tbh) on the chart? Is this right? Or am I misremembering things? If it was changed, it seems like a poor change as now it is giving less info. ToadTendo (talk) 01:56, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ToadTendo It was indeed changed. There used to be data for each country from 2010 onwards. I think that it would be a good idea to have past data in (either a 5-year or) a 10-year interval for every country from the earliest possiple year available (2010 or earlier) to have an informative historical overview. Could someone try to recover a previous version with past data for each country? Existential Earthling (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

when will it actually update?

Also will we get the 2023 figures for the next update or 2024? 43.247.122.120 (talk) 01:05, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Taiwan not listed in the table?

So I ctrl+F-ed and Taiwan is not in the table, but if I go to the Taiwan Wikipedia article and look at the infobox they do have an HDI listed and it is 0.926 (19th in the world). What's up with this? Alexysun (talk) 10:18, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The reason is because the HDI was calculated by Taiwan itself, so it isn't very reliable. Dr. Precursor (talk) 03:39, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

it's already March 2025

Does anyone have any idea when the next data will release? 14.192.145.133 (talk) 07:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know, maybe they have given up trying to rank countries in the current maelstrom that is gripping the world, or they're waiting for things to settle, for better or for worse? Lazarus1255 (talk) 02:10, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why isn’t Taiwan listed?

If Hong Kong is listed, it would make sense for Taiwan to be as well. Dr. Precursor (talk) 23:45, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem to appear in the UNDP report or webpage (http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi). Vpab15 (talk) 08:17, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~~Hong Kong isn't listed either.~~ Dr. Precursor (talk) 03:34, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 report

The 2025 report has been released https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2025reporten.pdf (page 278). I'll try helping with updating values tomorrow. CROIX^talk 05:10, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]