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❤️ Human Capital Index Plus — overall score, female

Human capital index plus (HCI+): overall score, female (scale 0–325). World Bank Human Capital Index Plus measure.

📅 2025📏 score158 entries
Every dot is one country, placed by its value (score); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.
1
🇪🇪Estonia
268.9
2
🇳🇱Netherlands
268.0
3
🇸🇪Sweden
268.0
4
🇮🇸Iceland
267.8
5
🇦🇺Australia
267.1
6
🇮🇪Ireland
266.5
7
🇫🇮Finland
264.6
8
🇳🇴Norway
264.2
9
🇨🇭Switzerland
263.1
10
🇩🇰Denmark
262.9
11
🇰🇷South Korea
262.1
12
🇱🇹Lithuania
261.3
13
🇳🇿New Zealand
260.2
14
🇬🇧United Kingdom
259.8
15
🇱🇻Latvia
258.6
16
🇵🇱Poland
258.0
17
🇨🇦Canada
256.6
18
🇧🇾Belarus
256.5
19
🇸🇮Slovenia
256.3
20
🇩🇪Germany
256.1
21
🇲🇴Macau
255.8
22
🇦🇹Austria
254.0
23
🇨🇾Cyprus
253.2
24
🇵🇹Portugal
253.0
25
🇭🇰Hong Kong
252.6
26
🇲🇹Malta
251.6
27
🇨🇿Czechia
250.6
28
🇷🇺Russia
250.5
29
🇫🇷France
249.2
30
🇺🇸United States
248.5
31
🇮🇱Israel
248.1
32
🇭🇷Croatia
246.9
33
🇧🇪Belgium
242.9
34
🇱🇺Luxembourg
239.1
35
🇭🇺Hungary
238.1
36
🇪🇸Spain
237.7
37
🇸🇰Slovakia
237.4
38
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
234.1
39
🇷🇸Serbia
232.9
40
🇧🇬Bulgaria
232.1
41
🇸🇨Seychelles
231.4
42
🇶🇦Qatar
230.9
43
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
230.9
44
🇲🇩Moldova
228.5
45
🇺🇦Ukraine
226.6
46
🇬🇷Greece
221.4
47
🇨🇳China
220.8
48
🇮🇹Italy
219.6
49
🇨🇱Chile
218.8
50
🇲🇪Montenegro
218.0

Highlights

As of 2025, Estonia ranks first with 268.9, followed by Netherlands (268.0) and Sweden (268.0).

The top two are virtually level: Estonia and Netherlands differ by less than 1%.

Across 158 countries and territories, values run from 268.9 (Estonia) to 40.8 (Afghanistan), with a median of 181.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 9 from Europe and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Human capital index plus (HCI+): overall score, female (scale 0–325), 2025. Unit: score.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Human capital index plus (HCI+): overall score, female (scale 0–325) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026