|
WHO region / country
|
Human development index*
|
Gini Index (year)**
|
World bank classification***
|
ISCOLE site location
|
Population size†
|
ISCOLE Site principal investigators
|
|---|
|
Europe
|
|
Finland
|
0.882 (Very High)
|
26.9 (2000)
|
High Income
|
Helsinki, Espoo & Vantaa
|
1,060,701
|
Mikael Fogelholm
|
|
United Kingdom
|
0.863 (Very High)
|
36.0 (1999)
|
High Income
|
Bath & North East Somerset
|
177,700
|
Martyn Standage
|
|
Portugal
|
0.809 (Very High)
|
38.5 (1997)
|
High Income
|
Porto
|
237,584
|
José Maia
|
|
Africa
|
|
Kenya
|
0.509 (Low)
|
47.7 (2005)
|
Low Income
|
Nairobi
|
3,138,369
|
Vincent Onywera
|
|
Mark Tremblay
|
|
South Africa
|
0.619 (Medium)
|
63.1 (2009)
|
Upper-Middle Income
|
Cape Town
|
3,497,097
|
Estelle V. Lambert
|
|
The Americas
|
|
Canada
|
0.908 (Very High)
|
32.6 (2000)
|
High Income
|
Ottawa
|
883,391
|
Mark Tremblay
|
|
Jean-Philippe Chaput
|
|
United States
|
0.910 (Very High)
|
40.8 (2000)
|
High Income
|
Baton Rouge
|
802,484
|
Catrine Tudor-Locke
|
|
Colombia
|
0.710 (High)
|
55.9 (2010)
|
Upper-Middle Income
|
Bogotá
|
7,674,366
|
Olga Sarmiento
|
|
Brazil
|
0.718 (High)
|
54.7 (2009)
|
Upper-Middle Income
|
São Paulo
|
19,889,559
|
Victor Matsudo
|
|
South-East Asia
|
|
India
|
0.547 (Medium)
|
33.4 (2005)
|
Lower-Middle Income
|
Bangalore
|
9,588,910
|
Anura Kurpad
|
|
Rebecca Kuriyan
|
|
Western Pacific
|
|
China
|
0.687 (Medium)
|
42.6 (2002)
|
Upper-Middle Income
|
Tianjin
|
10,290,987
|
Pei Zhao
|
|
Gang Hu
|
|
Australia
|
0.929 (Very High)
|
35.2 (1994)
|
High Income
|
Adelaide
|
1,212,982
|
Timothy Olds
|
|
Carol Maher
|
- *obtained from United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report 2011. Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All. New York NY: Palgrave Macmillan; 2011; **obtained from World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI/); ***obtained from World Bank. World Development Indicators 2012. Washington, DC: The World Bank; 2012;†represents the population size of the city or general area where children were sampled.
