Substantial resources directed to development assistance for health1 together with other forms of investments in health have ...

Explore the UNDP's latest Human Development Report for 2025. Discover why global human development is slowing down, see the ...

India improved its human development index (HDI) rank to 130 in 2023, up from 133 in 2022, showing progress in life expectancy, education, and income. Key factors include national health programs ...

They identify widening disparities between low Human Development Index (HDI) and very high HDI countries, sounding the alarm for urgent action in cancer prevention and care worldwide.

Four years after societal lockdowns disrupted the global economy, every affluent nation has regained its pre-pandemic score on a U.N. ranking called the Human Development Index (HDI). Yet half of ...

At the core of this vision is a bold new idea: the Nature Relationship Index (NRI)—a global metric designed to complement the HDI, and capture the quality of a nation's relationship with nature.

Men and individuals living in high human development index areas had heightened global lifetime risks for lung cancer in 2022 vs. women and those living in low Human Development Index areas ...

Countries with a low human development index (HDI) had incidence of approximately 6 per 100,000 and mortality of approximately 4 per 100,000 compared with countries with a very high HDI, who had ...

Somalia ranks poorly in key dimensions of human development, and urgently needs developmental leadership to reverse the situation.