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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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India ranked 132 out of 191 countries in the 2021 human development index, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). India's HDI value of 0.633 places the ...

The relative deterioration of HDI figures globally cannot be a reason for complacency for India. File photo India’s performance across global development indices continues to be abysmal. Recently, it ...

India ranks 132 out of 191 countries in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2021, after registering a decline in its score over two consecutive years for the first time in three decades. The drop is in ...

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 ...

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 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.

Between 1990 and 2015 Rwanda made the greatest strides in human development, according to the UN’s annual Human Development Index (HDI), which looks at life expectancy, income and education. Rwandans ...