Why do you care about economic growth so much!?!?! GDP doesn’t tell you anything about quality of life or standard of living!!!!

hdi isn’t some magical indicator of quality of life, it’s extremely simple, also it includes gdp per capita as one of its three criteria

you end up with silly rankings for education like Finland losing to belarus in education because in belarus people go to school for more years

the third criteria, life expectancy, is heavily influenced by a country’s cuisine