Sustainable Development and Workers Ability: Considerations on the Education Index in the Human Development Index

Sustainability is an imperative of the 21st century in order to preserve environment for next generations, but sustainable development also requires introduction and use new technologies, related abilities their use. The United Nations have adopted Human Development Index HDI assess human well-being. This index includes a component knowledge, Education Index, which expressed terms mean schooling years. However, this information does not contain measure student’s ability solve complex problems or reason, are fundamental skills development. In study, improved version was developed by considering data available from OECD’s Programme International Student Assessment (PISA). takes into account both social impact years outcomes education systems each country (PISA scores). As consequence HDI*, proposed. Two case studies were performed, comparing European non-European countries, focusing on government spending. Moreover, trends energy environmental indicator analyzed relation HDI*.