The Human Development Report Office will host a New Alliance Talk at the 3rd Hamburg Sustainability Conference on 30 June at 16:30 CET. The session will bring together global leaders including Laura ...

The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of ...

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 ...

What if the future of human development depends not only on managing overlapping crises, but on repairing our relationships—with each other and with the planet? UNDP’s forthcoming 2026 Human ...

Continuing with the practice from the previous years, HDRO is making public the statistical programs used in the calculation of the 2025 Multidimensional Poverty Index for a large selection of ...

Across most occupations in all countries, the expectation of augmentation surpasses the expectation of automation. Realizing this vision will depend on fostering human–AI collaboration—through a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a human development crisis. On some dimensions of human development, conditions today are equivalent to levels of deprivation last seen in the mid-1980s. But the ...

This report presents a compact update on the state of multidimensional poverty (henceforth referred to as “poverty”) in the world. It compiles data from 110 developing countries covering 6.1 billion ...

Global human development could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced ...

The first Arab States' Report acknowledges that Arab countries have made substantial progress over the past three decades. Life expectancy has increased by 15 years; mortality rates for children under ...

While the expression “human development” is widely used, it is understood in different ways around..

"The Niger Delta is a region suffering from administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic ...