Composite indicators have become an indispensable tool to synthesise multifaceted data into a single, interpretable metric for assessing human development. The construction of these indicators ...

The increase was driven by improvements across all its indicators — life expectancy at birth, expected and mean years of schooling, and adjusted real per capita expenditure per annum. Human ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Making wealth creation easy, accessible and transparent. The Human Development Index evaluates individual human development in ...

Measuring a nation's success involves more than just its buildings or economy; it also involves how well its citizens live. The HDI, or Human Development Index, is a suitable indicator in this ...

All GCC states fall within the “very high human development” category in the 2025 Human Development Index, reflecting strong performance in health, education and quality of life ...

Belstat has presented the National Multidimensional Poverty Index (NMPI), validated by the University of Oxford.

A country’s gross domestic product (GDP), which measures total economic output, is central to how governments assess their economies. But this figure, when looked at in isolation, which is most often ...