Composite indicators have become an indispensable tool to synthesise multifaceted data into a single, interpretable metric for assessing human development. The construction of these indicators ...

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 ...

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

Each year, the United Nations Development Program produces the Human Development Report. This is a compilation of country-level data around education, health, and economic security that aspires to ...

Researchers have discovered a potential 'pause button' in the earliest stages of human development. Whether humans can control the timing of their development has long been debated. The new study ...

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, ...

Human development does not happen in a vacuum. A growing economy, an improved educational system, and better health outcomes cannot be removed from broader questions of governance, political stability ...

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of elimination of violence against women. Committee on the Elimination of ...

The latest Human Development Index highlights how several African countries remain among the lowest-ranked globally, reflecting deep struggles with poverty, instability, and limited quality of life.

Iraq has crossed into the high human development category for the first time in its history, Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani announced at the launch of the country's Human Development Report for ...