This 2026 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report provides a statistical update of the global multidimensional ...

As highlighted in a new Background Paper for the HDR, Caribbean SIDS in particular are on the frontlines of the planetary ...

The choices made today will shape whether the coming decades are defined solely by planetary pressures or by renewed pathways of reconnection in which people and the planet can thrive together. UNDP’s ...

The 2026 Human Development Report explores how changes in our planetary systems are shaping the future of human development—and how advances in human development can, in turn, address the threats to ...

This 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, for the first time, overlays data on climate hazards and multidimensional poverty to assess how exposed poor people are to environmental ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The ...

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.

Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their impact on human development will be the theme of the next Human Development Report, the United Nations Development Programme has announced.

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 ...

Join us on 13 March 1pm EDT for the global launch event of the 2023-2024 Human Development Report (HDR) titled "Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world". The event will ...

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 1-in-20 annual chance ...