Explore the platform The extent of coastal flooding has increased over the past 20 years as a result of sea level rise, meaning 14 million more people worldwide now live in coastal communities with a ...

Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. In this paper, we review ways to measure ...

Since its introduction in the first Human Development Report in 1990, the Human Development Index (HDI) has attracted great interest in policy and academic circles, as well as in the media and ...

This concept paper contributes to the broader thinking underway for the 2026 Human Development Report, which will explore what human development progress looks like in a world where planetary systems ...

The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) is pleased to inform that the 2014 Human Development Report 'Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerability and Building Resilience' was launched in Tokyo ...

Note: Data presented here were used in the preparation of the 2025 Human Development Report, released on 6 May 2025. Data used in these indices and other human development indicators included here are ...

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 ...

Human development is about expanding the richness of human life rather than simply the richness of the economy. It focuses on people and their opportunities and choices. Explore the wealth of human ...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and having a decent standard of ...

The MPI was first developed in 2010 by OPHI and UNDP for the UNDP’s flagship Human Development Reports. In February 2012 and March 2013, a critical review of the family of human development indices ...

Heriberto Tapia is the Research and Strategic Partnership Advisor of the Human Development Report Office (HDRO), leading both areas. He has been a senior member of the HDRO research team since 2014.

Location: Seoul, in-person Number of participants: 21 The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) and the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre, with the support of Korea University and the Korean Ministry of ...