The 2021/22 HDR revealed a startling reality: for the first time ever, the global HDI declined two years in a row, driven by a new “uncertainty complex,” of which the Covid-19 pandemic is emblematic.

The 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) is part of a trilogy of reports that looks at a new uncertainty complex comprised of intensifying polarization, destabilized planetary systems, and expanding ...

How to make sense of producing a Human Development Report at a time of war? Not only of wars between and within countries but also with our planet, with ourselves and with our future? These questions ...

Access and explore human development data for 193 countries and territories worldwide. Application loading... Note: Data presented here were used in the preparation of the 2023/2024 Human Development ...

In 1990 the first Human Development Report introduced a new approach for advancing human wellbeing. Human development – or the human development approach – is about expanding the richness of human ...

Biased Gender Social Norms are blocking the Path to Gender Equality The gender social norms biases we carry into the voting booths, board meetings, interview panels, and assemblies have been blocking ...

This toolkit has been written for anyone involved in writing a national or regional human development report It offers a concise, step by step overview of the whole reporting process, from theme ...

Vivimos en un mundo de preocupaciones: la pandemia de COVID-19 persiste, hay guerra en Ucrania y otros lugares, las temperaturas baten récords, se registran incendios y tempestades. Cada uno de estos ...

The 2023/24 Human Development Report assesses the dangerous gridlock resulting from uneven development progress, intensifying inequality, and escalating political polarization, that we must urgently ...

Links to ‘must’ read materials and ‘suggested’ readings including NHDR examples FAQs and answers Links to materials about process Best practices Links to additional resources that are available in the ...

The human development composite indices have been developed to capture broader dimensions of human development, identify groups falling behind in human progress and monitor the distribution of human ...

We live in a world of worry: the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, continuing regional and local conflicts, record-breaking temperatures, fires and storms. Many reports document these challenges and ...