Dominican Republic

Abstract

Gaps in human capital outcomes within countries across socioeconomic groups are large as well. This country profile documents these within-country gaps using a newly-developed version of the HCI disaggregated by socioeconomic status (SES-HCI). It presents data on key indicators of human capital outcomes among children (child survival, expected years of school, harmonized test scores, and the fraction of children under 5 who are not stunted), together with a version of the SES-HCI, for 50 lowand middle-income countries where data are available.