The increase was driven by improvements across all its indicators — life expectancy at birth, expected and mean years of schooling, and adjusted real per capita expenditure per annum.

States like Kerala and Himachal Pradesh, which have high scores in traditional HDI and are praised for their success, show some of the largest gaps once quality factors are taken into consideration ...

The latest UNDP Human Development Report 2025 lays bare this uncomfortable truth. Pakistan’s Human Development Index stands ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

The nation recorded improvements in income, health, and education, with Kuala Lumpur leading among the states.

We generally think of Venezuela as being an economic basket case. It's just, for example, been added to the--near--official database of hyperinflations, where prices rise by more than 50% a month for ...

A new global ranking puts Cuba at #1, and positions the US and Norway below Niger. This will come as a surprise to anyone used to seeing the Nordic countries topping every country comparison of ...

Between 1990 and 2015 Rwanda made the greatest strides in human development, according to the UN’s annual Human Development Index (HDI), which looks at life expectancy, income and education. Rwandans ...