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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Top scores in safety, talent, healthcare and digital government reflect a year of rising global competitiveness ...

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 ...

FREETOWN, March 25, 2024 – Sierra Leone has made commendable strides in improving human capital development with the government demonstrating a strong commitment to enhancing the well-being and ...