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

If you want to understand the quality of life lived by the people of any country, the measure, or most widely used standard, ...

Adjusting HDI for quality reshapes state rankings, with J&K and Tamil Nadu overtaking Kerala in the quality-adjusted human ...

Ghana placed 18th in Africa as the most developed country, according to the 2025 World Population Review. Surprisingly, countries like Sao Tome and Principe and Republic of Congo fared better than ...

Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand has said that Haryana can become a developed state before 2047 in terms of not only income, ...

India's ranking on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) improved by one position in 2022 to 134 out of 193 countries ranked compared to 135 out of 191 countries in 2021. On the Gender ...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistics of life expectancy, education, and income indices to rank countries into four tiers of human development. It was created by economist Mahbub ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

The report highlights that, in terms of inequality-adjusted HDI or IHDI, India’s rank drops to 130. IHDI highlights the percentage loss in HDI due to inequalities. India ranks 129 among 189 countries ...