Korea (Republic of)’s HDI for 2013 is 0.891. However, when the value is discounted for inequality, the
HDI falls to 0.736, a loss of 17.4 percent due to inequality in the distribution of the dimension indices.
Japan and France show losses due to inequality of 12.4 percent and 9.0 percent respectively. The
average loss due to inequality for very high HDI countries is 12.3 percent and for the OECD it is 13.4
percent. The Human inequality coefficient for Korea (Republic of) is equal to 16.8 percent.