Indonesia’s Human Capital Index: Halfway There, But Going Where?

Indonesia scores 0.54 on the Human Capital Index. What does that mean for its future workforce and how does it compare to Southeast Asia?

Imagine being able to distill a child’s entire future potential into a single, decimal-based judgment. Not a hopeful guess or a teacher’s comment scribbled on a report card, but a cold, clean figure stamped into a spreadsheet by economists in crisp suits. That’s the promise of The World Bank's Human Capital Index (HCI); a tool that tries to measure how …