Why European countries have high HDI than Asian countries? What factors are involved in it?

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Why European countries have high HDI than Asian countries? What factors are involved in it?

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Actually, the Human Development Index is pretty high in *developed* countries. Europe, North America, and Asian countries are all on the high side of the scale, although Asian countries are somewhat lower than in the west (and India is pretty low). Look at the map at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index)

I would speculate that there are many factors: education, literacy, poverty, proportion of manual-labor jobs versus “brain” jobs, level of government corruption, and so forth.