This 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.

Continuing the thread of the 2019 and 2020 HDRs, 2021/22 HDR carries forward a conversation centered on inequalities while integrating other important themes related to uncertainties in the ...

The 2021/22 HDR revealed a startling reality: for the first time ever, the global HDI declined two years in a row, driven by a new “uncertainty complex,” of which the Covid-19 pandemic is emblematic.

IHDI is based on a distribution-sensitive class of composite indices proposed by Foster, Lopez-Calva and Szekely (2005), which draws on the Atkinson (1970) family of inequality measures. It is ...

In 1990 the first Human Development Report introduced a new approach for advancing human wellbeing. Human development – or the human development approach – is about expanding the richness of human ...

The human development composite indices have been developed to capture broader dimensions of human development, identify groups falling behind in human progress and monitor the distribution of human ...

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 ...

Continuing with the practice from the previous years, HDRO is making public the statistical programs used in the calculation of the 2024 Multidimensional Poverty Index for a large selection of ...

In the latest release, Human Climate Horizons data and insights platform (HCH) unveils projections of sea level rise and its impacts on people and land in over 5,000 coastal regions and major cities ...

PHDI is an experimental index that adjusts the Human Development Index (HDI) for planetary pressures in the Anthropocene. PHDI discounts the HDI for pressures on the planet to reflect a concern for ...

Note: Data presented here were used in the preparation of the 2023/2024 Human Development Report, released on 13 March 2024. Data used in these indices and other human development indicators included ...

The 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) is part of a trilogy of reports that looks at a new uncertainty complex comprised of intensifying polarization, destabilized planetary systems, and expanding ...