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 ...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published its latest Human Development Index last month. This year, the index includes each country’s environmental impacts, and the results are not ...

In accordance with the increasing demand for information, indices are created and national and global rankings made to represent and through which to understand and build policy related to complex ...

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

A new global ranking puts Cuba at #1, and positions the US and Norway below Niger. This will come as a surprise to anyone used to seeing the Nordic countries topping every country comparison of ...

On the regional level, as the Human Development Index rose, so did the lifetime risk for lung cancer development. Men vs. women had a greater global lifetime risk for lung cancer development and ...

This article deals with the ranking of Cuba in the UN Human Development Index, from the 1992 edition (with data for 1989) to the 2016 edition (with data for 2015)—the latest available. It shows the ...