It resembles the human development index HDI, published annually since 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme, but it is calibrated to reflect ‘development’ as evident in the actual ...

Explore the UNDP's latest Human Development Report for 2025. Discover why global human development is slowing down, see the complete HDI ranking list, and understand how the index measures a ...

Info about the new UNDP’s Human Development Index, its addition of the planetary pressure metric, and how countries’ ranks changed – articles and reports.

To overcome these shortcomings the present paper uses an all-encompassing measure—the human development index— and two other less commonly used indicators: infant and maternal mortality rates. Thus, ...

It aims to be as influential in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the Human Development Index (HDI) was for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Explore India’s strong performance in the 2025 Human Development Index, ranking 130th with an HDI value of 0.685. Discover key improvements in life expectancy, education, and income, alongside ...

Srilanka, May 8 -- Sri Lanka ranks 89th among the 193 countries featured in the 2025 Human Development Index (HDI) released recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Dozens of poor nations have yet to regain their pre-pandemic levels of overall well-being, amid signs that the pandemic may have permanently depressed the world’s development trajectory ...