Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Making wealth creation easy, accessible and transparent. The Human Development Index evaluates individual human development in ...

Several measures such as gross domestic product, gross national income and human development index still don’t answer if ...

The Human Development Data (HDD) of the United Nation is the integrated database for the Human Development Reports created in 1990. This database provides statistics essential for economic, ...

The country with the highest Human Development Index (HDI) is Switzerland. According to the 2023–24 Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Switzerland has an HDI ...

• UNDP report says global HDI value projected to reach record high, but increase would be lowest since records began 35 years ago • Inequality between ‘Low HDI’ and ‘Very High HDI’ countries continues ...

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

Amartya Sen’s capability approach redefined development as expanding people’s freedoms, inspiring the HDI and national policies.

Rome, Italy, 11 September 2026 – The United Nations convened global thought leaders, policymakers, technologists, academics, faith leaders and development practitioners in Rome, Italy, on 4-5 ...