Hi, I am doing a project and I don't know what this means: Columbia's Human Development Index is 0.710.

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Hi, I am doing a project and I don't know what this means: Columbia's Human Development Index is 0.710.
 
I don't know if that means how many years or what.
 
              Thanks for answers!

Ms. Sue · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

Unknown · Answer

I actually have seen that i just want to know what 0.710 means years or ,months, i really don't know

Ms. Sue · Answer

"The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices to rank countries into four tiers of human development. "

-- Wikipedia

http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/