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 ...

Every Human Development Report is a voyage of discovery, exploring how the human development approach helps navigate pressing challenges and emerging opportunities. That navigation proved particularly ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The ...

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 ...

Human development is about expanding the richness of human life rather than simply the richness of the economy. It focuses on people and their opportunities and choices. Explore the wealth of human ...

The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The Human Development Index ...

Dans les pays en développement, pour diverses raisons, les politiques de développement élaborées et mises en œuvre n’arrivent pas à atteindre, dans la plupart des cas, les objectifs à elles ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

GDI measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, measured by female and male life expectancy at birth; education, measured by female and male ...

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 ...