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Table 6.1 Probabilities of minimization of the HDI components
Country Longevity Observed

schooling

Expected
schooling

Income

Switzerland

0.0026 0.0029 0.0034 0.0017

Australia

0.0026 0.0026 0.0026 0.0019

Israel

0.0026 0.0027 0.0034 0.0024

France

0.0026 0.0030 0.0033 0.0021

Sweden

0.0026 0.0027 0.0033 0.0019

Norway

0.0026 0.0025 0.0030 0.0014

Japan

0.0025 0.0027 0.0035 0.0020

Iceland

0.0026 0.0030 0.0028 0.0022

Netherlands

0.0027 0.0027 0.0031 0.0018

New Zealand

0.0027 0.0025 0.0026 0.0025

Germany

0.0027 0.0026 0.0032 0.0019

Hong Kong

0.0025 0.0032 0.0034 0.0015

United States

0.0028 0.0024 0.0031 0.0016

Singapore

0.0027 0.0029 0.0035 0.0018

Qatar

0.0029 0.0043 0.0047 0.0009

Liechtenstein

0.0028 0.0031 0.0048 0.0009

Kuwait

0.0032 0.0052 0.0038 0.0013

Mali

0.0134 0.0159 0.0096 0.0090

Equatorial Guinea

0.0144 0.0059 0.0088 0.0027

Chad

0.0185 0.0213 0.0098 0.0086

Burkina Faso

0.0086 0.0246 0.0111 0.0087

Mozambique

0.0160 0.0266 0.0069 0.0089

Central African
Republic

0.0218 0.0091 0.0114 0.0091

D. R. Congo

0.0239 0.0091 0.0078 0.0096

Sierra Leone

0.0279 0.0096 0.0100 0.0090

Papua New Guinea

0.0053 0.0081 0.0154 0.0077

Djibouti

0.0071 0.0083 0.0160 0.0077

Niger

0.0093 0.0228 0.0228 0.0091

Eritrea

0.0056 0.0093 0.0271 0.0093

Sudan

0.0057 0.0102 0.0288 0.0081

indicators, also, it can be seen that the evaluations of these 17 countries are much
closer together than the others.
The results of the application of four different forms of probabilities composition
to the data in Table 6.1 are shown in Table 6.2 .