Bali’s Human Development Index: What the 2025 numbers measure

Bali’s human-development picture combines longer lives, more schooling and higher living standards. In 2025, the province recorded a Human Development Index of 79.37, life expectancy of 75.46 years, expected years of schooling of 13.63 years and mean years of schooling of 9.75 years, according to the Bali provincial government’s 2025 performance report.

What does Bali’s human-development index measure?

The Human Development Index, or HDI, combines health, education and living standards into one indicator. Bali’s HDI reached 79.37 in 2025, up from 78.63 in 2024, according to the Bali provincial government’s report citing official statistics released on February 5, 2026.

The index is a broad measure of outcomes rather than a direct measure of tourism activity or provincial income alone. It therefore helps show how economic conditions relate to residents’ health, education and purchasing capacity.

How long do people in Bali live?

Life expectancy at birth in Bali reached 75.46 years in 2025, compared with 75.10 years in 2024, according to the Bali provincial government’s 2025 performance report.

The figure is an indicator for the health dimension of the HDI. It is a statistical expectancy measure, not a prediction of an individual’s exact lifespan.

How much schooling does Bali’s population receive?

Expected years of schooling for children aged seven and above reached 13.63 years in 2025, up 0.01 years from 2024, according to the Bali provincial government’s report, which cites BPS data.

Mean years of schooling for residents aged 25 and above reached 9.75 years in 2025, rising 0.21 years from 2024. The two measures describe different things: expected schooling for the younger population and completed schooling among adults.

What does the index say about living standards?

The living-standard component uses adjusted real annual per-capita expenditure. Bali’s 2025 report says this measure increased by Rp463,000 from 2024, according to the Bali provincial government.

The same report records Bali’s poverty rate at 3.42% in September 2025, down 0.30 percentage points from March 2025. Poverty and HDI are different indicators: the first counts people below the poverty line, while the second combines three dimensions.

Why does this matter beyond Bali’s tourism economy?

Tourism statistics describe visitors and tourism businesses, but HDI describes resident outcomes. Read together with the province’s health, education and poverty measures, the index provides a wider way to assess how Bali is developing.

Bali’s 2025 report also records an open unemployment rate of 1.45%, compared with 1.79% in 2024. That labour-market figure is separate from the HDI and should not be treated as one of its components.

Sources

• Bali Provincial Government
• BPS-Statistics Indonesia Bali Province