Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I like to answer interesting questions by writing and programming. The UN’s Human Development Index is a great at-a-glance way to ...

The human development index initiated by the United Nations Development Programme has gained universal acceptance as a measure of human progress. This study constructs a comparable time series of HDI ...

Human Development Index 2020 is a report published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In 2020, UNDP has released planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index. This means that ...

On November 4, the HDR office at the United Nations Development Programme published the 20 th Edition of the Human Development Report. Among the many background studies that were conducted for this ...

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India has ranked a lowly 131 among the 188 countries surveyed for human development, a new UN report has said, bracketing the third-largest Asian economy alongside its South Asian neighbours like ...

New study finds vast differences in quality of life within U.S. population. April 28, 2010— -- A new study of America's haves and have nots found that the least fortunate U.S. citizens are an ...

Japan is the second-best place in the world in terms of human development, with Hong Kong in first place and Iceland in third, according to a new index called the Human Life Indicator that is supposed ...

In the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) 2025, India came in at number 130 out of 193 nations and territories on the Human Development Index. According ...

India moved up three spots in the Human Development Index (HDI), to 130, UN Development Programme (UNDP) said on Tuesday. It also stated that India is in a unique position globally as a rising AI ...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and having a decent standard of ...