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Human Development Report 2025

A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI

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 attempting to predict the future, the report argues that we must shape it—by making bold decisions so that AI augments what people can do.

Human Development Perspectives

2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

Poverty amid conflict

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.

Global Reports

Human Development Report 2023-24

Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world

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 tackle. The report emphasizes how global interdependence is being reconfigured and proposes a path forward where multilateralism plays a pivotal role.

Human Development Perspectives

2023 Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI)

Breaking down gender biases: Shifting social norms towards gender equality

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The Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) distinguishes itself from other flagship reports on development in the sense that it is based on an innovative concept that defines development as the expansion of choices by enhancing capabilities. The present paper analyses to what extent this innovative concept is reflected in the policy options suggested by the reports, and whether it makes a difference for the direction the suggestions take.
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Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic is a complex problem and of high concern to the national agenda. Available data indicate that 22% of women between 12-19 years have been pregnant. This rate is 34% higher than the average for Latin America and the Caribbean. Teenage pregnancy is concentrated in specific areas of the country – the southern provinces and central Cibao - as well as among poorer people.
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The Report focuses on the youth as a critical force for shaping human development, because Pakistan currently has the largest generation of young people ever in its history, with about two-thirds of the total population under 30 years of age. This includes children under 15 who will be tomorrow's youth. While, youth cohort defined as those between 15-29 years of age, currently forms nearly a third of the country's total population.
National Reports
The Estonian Human Development Report is a collection of examinations compiled by the most renowned scientists in Estonia. This biennially released report is guided by the UN Human Development Index but increasingly reflects the Estonian socio-economic reality and development choices by tackling specific themes. The subject is presented by the Estonian Cooperation Assembly. Please visit the report website using the link below.
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The intrinsic value of sports and physical activities (SPAs) is already well-established, just like their relation to good health, sociability, cognition, productivity, and quality of life as a whole. Even so, most people are not involved with these practices. This National Human Development Report assumes that SPAs have the potential to enrich our lives and increase the freedom of choice of every individual—they are rights, not duties.
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The ZHDR 2017 has a special focus on issues of climate change, hence its theme is Climate Change and Human Development: Towards Building a Climate Resilient Nation. This is because the Government of Zimbabwe regards climate change as a challenge which has the potential to undermine many of the positive achievements made in meeting the country’s development goals.
National Reports
The Tanzania Human Development Report (THDR) 2017 “Social Policy in the Context of Economic Transformation in Tanzania” builds on the ideas put forward by THDR 2014. In recent years, Tanzania’s approach to economic development has placed renewed emphasis upon the importance of economic transformation in driving poverty reduction and prosperity.
National Reports
The Report examines the environmental priorities of sustainable development in Russia and associated with social and regional inequality, the transformation of the model of the Russian economy. экономического роста, укреплением систем здравоохранения и образования, сокращением В Докладе рассмотрены экологические приоритеты устойчивого развития России и связанные с социального и регионального неравенства, трансформацией модели российской экономики.