Switzerland was no. 1 in the previous Human Development Index; will they keep the top spot? This market closes the evening before the 2024 release (Mar 13).
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There are some inconsistencies in numbers across sources, so I'm holding off on the resolutions of this and related markets until tomorrow.
For example, Switzerland's HDI value was 0.962 in 2021 and is now reported as 0.967. However, the change is only reported as 0.002. Is it a glitch?
In the meantime, feel free to see what you make of it by comparing the 2021 number across these two sites:
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks (2021 Switzerland 0.965)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index#List (2021 Switzerland 0.962)