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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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Rapport National Sur Le Developpement Humain, Edition 2022

Dans les pays en développement, pour diverses raisons, les politiques de développement élaborées et mises en œuvre n’arrivent pas à atteindre, dans la plupart des cas, les objectifs à elles initialement assignés. Au Mali, la lutte contre la pauvreté et les inégalités, une priorité constante du Gouvernement, ne fait pas exception à cette règle.
Regional Reports

Expanding Opportunities for an Inclusive and Resilient Recovery in the Post-Covid Era

More than two years have passed since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its impacts have been far ranging and are still being felt across the world. In many cases, the pandemic has erased several years of hard-won gains in human development. This has been even more pronounced in less developed countries, fragile regions and vulnerable communities.
Human Development Perspectives

Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste and gender
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.
National Reports

Development, a right for all: Egypt’s pathways and prospects

The Egypt Human Development Report 2021 is of particular significance, coming a decade after the publication of the previous Human Development Report in 2010. As a result, the new Report covers an unprecedented period in Egypt’s history, from 2011 to 2020, which includes two revolutions. These upheavals changed the course of the development process in Egypt.
National Reports

Advancing human development in Bangladesh: Looking a head

Over the years, Bangladesh has produced seven National Human Development Reports (NHDRs), which have contributed to public debates and influenced policy debate in the country. As part of that legacy, the country strives to further human development, particularly for its future generations to enable them to realize their dreams and aspirations.
National Reports

2020/2021 Philippine Human Development Report

The 2020/2021 Philippine Human Development Report with the theme Socioeconomic Mobility and Human Development is the 8th in the series of Reports which began in 1994. It focuses on processes that allow people and families to improve their welfare over time and sustain such improvements across generations and how factors related to human development are very important in sustaining such processes.
Regional Reports

Trapped: High Inequality and Low Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of great contrasts, where wealth and prosperity coexist with vulnerability and extreme poverty. The list of contrasts is long and familiar. The region is also characterized by very volatile and low average growth, explained by low productivity. This Regional Human Development Report argues that the region is caught in a trap of high inequality and low growth.
Global Reports

The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene
The 2020 Human Development Report (HDR) doubles down on the belief that people’s agency and empowerment can bring about the action we need if we are to live in balance with the planet in a fairer world. It shows that we are at an unprecedented moment in history, in which human activity has become a dominant force shaping the planet.