Fig. 2: The basic correlation between HDI and WHR 2019 rankings.
From: Experimenting with a strong dual necessity approach to social progress

Rising dispersion below the rank of 25 in WHR. Rank correlations using Kendall tau (see appendix): all samples 0.59 and the quartile correlations based on WHR rank are: 1st 0.59; 2nd 0.05*; 3rd 0.19*; 4th 0.23. * We can reject the null hypothesis of rank correlation at the 5% level.