Analysis of Factors Affecting the Human Development Index in West Sumatera

Abstract

The Human Development Index (HDI) is one of the tools used to measure the achievement of human development in a country based on the basic components of indicators of life expectancy, average years of schooling, and living standards. This study aims to determine the effect of the number of public health center, poverty level, GDP per capita, GRDP, and population on the human development index in West Sumatra Province in 2016-2021. The type of data used in this study is secondary data with panel data analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that the number of public health center, poverty levels, and GRDP are significant to the human development index while GDP per capita has not much impact on the human development index in West Sumatra in 2016-2021.