THE PHILIPPINES jumped five spots in the latest Human Development Index, but remained one of the laggards in Southeast Asia, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said. Read the full story.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei Darussalam is the fifth highest in the East and South-East Asian region in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) but dropped two ...

The Population and Housing Census of 2023 has generated a lot of useful information on key indicators. The statistics are available at the regionally disaggregated level down to the districts. The ...

Mysuru: The University of Mysore (UoM) research project on the Human Development Index (HDI) for tribal groups also known as Karnataka State’s Tribal Human Development Index report is ready for ...

Iceland has replaced Norway on the top of the Human Development Index. The index is a part of UNDP´s Human Development Report, which was launched in Brussels 6 May. All of the Nordic countries are ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Nepal, in collaboration with Nepal Economic Forum, launched the global 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) titled "A Matter of Choice: People and ...

The human development index initiated by the United Nations Development Programme has gained universal acceptance as a measure of human progress. This study constructs a comparable time series of HDI ...

India climbed four spots to the 130th position out of 193 countries in the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) for 2023, according to the report titled ‘A matter of choice: People and ...

In the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) 2025 Human Development Report (HDR) 2025, India came in at number 130 out of 193 nations and territories on the Human Development Index. According ...

Srilanka, May 8 -- Sri Lanka ranks 89th among the 193 countries featured in the 2025 Human Development Index (HDI) released recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Sri Lanka leads ...