n an age when development is charted through graphs, forecasts and statistics, the dominance of quantifiability as the cornerstone of societal progress is nearly unchallenged. From GDP to literacy ...

Canada has slipped slightly in the UN rankings of human progress as slower advances in areas such as education deprived this country of bragging rights as one of the top 10. The United Nations' annual ...

The categories are broken down and measure a huge swath of data, including maternal and infant mortality rate, female representation in government, public expenditure on education, research and ...

Human development in the region has not been progressing since the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the finding of the 2025 Human Development Report. Rodrigo Barraza, Sustainable Development Goals technical ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei Darussalam is the fifth highest in the East and South-East Asian region in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) but dropped two ...

India has climbed three spots on the Human Development Index (HDI), ranking 130 in 2023, up from 133 in 2022, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released on Tuesday.

India continues its steady rise on the Human Development Index (HDI), ranking 130 out of 193 countries in the 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) released on Tuesday by the UN Development Programme.