What are the most important results of the IHDI regarding HDI achievements globally and regionally? Which countries and regions are the least equal and most equal?
The average world loss in HDI due to inequality is about 22 percent – ranging from 6 percent (Czech Republic) to 45 percent (Mozambique). People in sub-Saharan Africa suffer the largest losses due to inequality in all three dimensions, followed by South Asia and the Arab States. South Asia suffers high inequality in health and education, while considerable losses in the Arab States can generally be traced to unequal distribution of education. Latin America and the Caribbean suffers the largest loss of any region due to inequality in income (38 percent). Generally countries with less human development also have more multidimensional inequality and thus larger losses in human development due to inequality, while people in developed countries experience the least inequality in human development. East Asia and the Pacific performs well on the IHDI, particularly in access to healthcare and education, and formerly socialist countries in Europe and Central Asia have relatively egalitarian dis
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