The Human Development Index (HDI) is a tool developed by the United Nations to measure and compare different countries’ levels of social and economic development.

Explore the UNDP's latest Human Development Report for 2025. Discover why global human development is slowing down, see the complete HDI ranking list, and understand how the index measures a ...

A new way of looking at the Human Development Index illustrates substantial differences between countries with similar levels of human development.

This map, part of an interactive series developed by Measure of America (a project of the Social Science Research Council) aims to summarize people’s well-being with a single indicator: the American ...

The WBGs Human Capital Project places special emphasis on working with countries across Sub-Saharan Africa to help them meet their human capital goals, which is central to ensuring the continent’s ...

Between 2012 and 2017 Congo made the greatest strides in human development, according to the UN’s Human Development Index. In 2017 people in the central African country lived for over two years ...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a tool to measure human prosperity. Learn how it works, as well as the criticisms and limitations of how it is used.