When it comes to improving economic outcomes for women and women’s empowerment, effective action requires reliable data. Yet, ...

The 2025 Human Development Report explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human development and the choices we can make to ensure that it enhances human capabilities. Rather than ...

Guidance notes generally seek to translate global HDR themes such as Migration and Climate Change into country relevant analytical framework for the purpose of developing NHDRs They provide a ...

The 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report overlays violent conflict data with multidimensional poverty data to better understand their interlinkages across countries and over time.

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.

Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their impact on human development will be the theme of the next Human Development Report, the United Nations Development Programme has announced.

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 ...

Climate change’s impact on coastal flooding to increase five times over this century According to new data on the Human Climate Horizons platform, a collaboration between the Climate Impact Lab and ...

Rapid urbanisation: opportunities and challenges to improve the well-being of societies By 2050 more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities.

The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) is pleased to inform that the 2014 Human Development Report 'Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerability and Building Resilience' was launched in Tokyo ...

This report expands the measures for women and girls to exercise their potential, their opportunities and the choices available to them. Policies that seek to further empower women and girls and ...

This report provides a comprehensive picture of acute multidimensional poverty to inform the work of countries and communities building a more just future for the global poor.