Italy’s 2013 HDI of 0.872 is below the average of 0.890 for countries in the very high human development
group and below the average of 0.876 for countries in the OECD. From the OECD, countries which are
close to Italy in 2013 HDI rank and to some extent in population size are Spain and the United Kingdom,
which have HDIs ranked 27 and 14 respectively (see table B)