LocationsThe interactive platform allows users to explore data on health, education, and standard of living to understand human development levels across the country’s provinces and departments.
UNDP presents the Human Development Map, a tool to explore the level of development across Argentina’s territories
October 29, 2026
Representatives of Universidad de San Andrés and UNDP Argentina at the launch event of the Human Development Map.
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On Thursday, October 29, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Argentina presented the Human Development Map at Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA in spanish). The open-access, interactive platform allows users to explore the level of development across the country’s provinces and departments based on three indicators: health, education, and standard of living. The tool enables users to examine territorial characteristics in greater depth and facilitates access to key data for understanding human development in Argentina.
The event was opened by Richard Barathe, UNDP Resident Representative in Argentina, and Lucía Quesada, Vice-Rector of UdeSA. It was attended by national and subnational authorities, members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Argentina, and representatives from the private sector, academia, and civil society.
The opening remarks were delivered by Richard Barathe, UNDP Resident Representative in Argentina and Lucía Quesada, Vice-Rector of Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA)
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Participants included Gabriela Catterberg, Head of the UNDP Human Development and Policies Area; Rafael Rofman, Senior Researcher in Social Protection at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC); María Edo, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA); and Victoria Costoya, Executive Director of UdeSA’s Center for Human Development Studies (CEDH). National, provincial and local authorities, as well as representatives of international organizations and the diplomatic corps, also attended the event.
During the meeting, Barathe presented the Human Development Map, describing it as “an initiative developed by UNDP that brings together georeferenced information at the provincial and departmental levels through an interactive platform that makes it possible to analyze development from a federal and multidimensional perspective.” He also highlighted that “department-level disaggregation makes it possible to capture human development progress for nearly 99% of the population across 429 departments in the country.”
Quesada, for her part, stated that “This strategic alliance between CEDH and UNDP has grown both institutionally and academically, always with the same clear and shared purpose: to build bridges between research and public policy.”
She also affirmed that “In line with this mission, the university’s work takes on meaning when the knowledge it generates engages in dialogue with the work of those responsible for making public policy decisions and, in turn, when the questions that emerge from public administration are taken as the basis for guiding and enriching the research agenda and the creation of knowledge.”
About the Human Development Map
The Human Development Map was developed based on the Provincial Human Development Index (PHDI) and the Departmental Human Development Index (DepHDI). Both indicators draw on the three basic dimensions of the Human Development Index (HDI)—health, education, and standard of living—which were adapted and complemented with other variables to measure the level of development across the country’s provinces and departments. In this way, the data better reflect territorial heterogeneity and provide more detailed information than the HDI at the national level.
To calculate both indices, official statistics are used, and results are expressed on a scale from 0 to 1: the closer the value is to 1, the higher the level of human development in the province or department being analyzed.
National, provincial, and local authorities, as well as representatives of international organizations and the diplomatic corps, attended the event.
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Through an open-access, clear, and interactive platform, the Human Development Map, currently available on UNDP Argentina’s website, makes it possible to explore and visualize these data in an accessible way, helping users gain a better understanding of the country’s diverse realities and the level of human development in each territory.
