Out of all the BRICS nations, Russia dominated both GDP and HDI up until the 1980s. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 weakened Russia's GDP and HDI growth significantly, and with primarily consistent rises to economic growth, Brazil, China, and India to catch up in terms of GDP by 1996. Since then, Russia's development in GDP and HDI has been severely lagging behind that of the other BRICS nations, and in the near future, projections indicate that Brazil, China, and South Africa will catch up to Russia's HDI as early on as 2023, with India on track to catching up some time after 2050.
There are 3 components of HDI:
Created by: Christopher Bui and Janesh Chhabra in collaboration with Suresh K Lodha
CMPS 165: Data Programming for Visualizations, Fall 2016