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Human Capital Index (HCI), Female, Lower Bound

The HCI lower bound reflects uncertainty in the measurement of the components and the overall index. It is obtained by recalculating the HCI using estimates of the upper bounds of each of the components of the HCI. The range between the upper and lower bound is the uncertainty interval. While the uncertainty intervals constructed here do not have a rigorous statistical interpretation, a rule of thumb is that if for two countries they overlap substantially, the differences between their HCI values are not likely to be practically meaningful.

Coverage
163 of 238 countries
Latest data
2020
Series
163
Unit
ordinal scale (0-1)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
human-capital-index-hci-female-lower-bound
Interva ID
worldbank-human-capital-index-hci-female-lower-bound

Recency

aging

data to 2020; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

50%

Latest observation is 2020; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 5 year(s) behind (aging).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

36%

147 of 163 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 36% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 163 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 4 observations; the earliest begins in 2010.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Human Capital Index (HCI), Female, Lower Bound for each of the 163 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20200.36ordinal scale (0-1)
Albania20200.65ordinal scale (0-1)
Algeria20200.55ordinal scale (0-1)
Angola20200.33ordinal scale (0-1)
Antigua and Barbuda20200.61ordinal scale (0-1)
Argentina20200.60ordinal scale (0-1)
Armenia20200.59ordinal scale (0-1)
Australia20200.77ordinal scale (0-1)
Austria20200.75ordinal scale (0-1)
Azerbaijan20200.57ordinal scale (0-1)

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Not named — the declaration is kept verbatim

    World Bank staff calculations based on the methodology described in Kraay (2018). http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/300071537907028892/Methodology-for-a-World-Bank-Human-Capital-Index

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    Health Nutrition and Population Statistics

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Human Capital Index (HCI), Female, Lower Bound. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-human-capital-index-hci-female-lower-bound (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-human-capital-index-hci-female-lower-bound,
  title        = {Human Capital Index (HCI), Female, Lower Bound},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-human-capital-index-hci-female-lower-bound}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-human-capital-index-hci-female-lower-bound; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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