Editing Human capital (section)

===Other methods===
A new measure of expected human capital calculated for 195 countries from 1990 to 2016 and defined for each birth cohort as the expected years lived from age 20 to 64 years and adjusted for educational attainment, learning or education quality, and functional health status was published by ''[[The Lancet]]'' in September 2018. [[Finland]] had the highest level of expected human capital: 28·4 health, education, and learning-adjusted expected years lived between age 20 and 64 years. [[Niger]] had the lowest at less than 1·6 years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31941-X/fulltext|title=Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016|last1=Lim|first1=Stephen|access-date=5 November 2018|publisher=Lancet|last2=et|first2=al}}</ref>

Measuring the human capital index of individual firms is also possible: a survey is made on issues like training or [[Financial compensation|compensation]],<ref name="Community">{{cite web|url=http://www.chrmglobal.com/Qanda/54/1/What-is-Human-Capital-Index-.html|title=What is Human Capital Index ?|website=Community for Human Resource Management|access-date=30 November 2018}}</ref> and a value between 0 (worst) and 100 (best) is obtained. Enterprises which rank high are shown to add value to shareholders.<ref name="Community" />