UNDP highlights human development stagnation

“Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown,” according to the 2025 edition of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s flagship publication, the Human Development Report (HDR), released on 6 May. 

The Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Farhan Haq, told reporters in New York that “instead of a sustained recovery following the period of exceptional crises of 2020-2021, progress has been unexpectedly weak.

” Haq said, “excluding those crisis years, the meagre rise in global human development projected in this year’s report is the smallest increase since 1990,” while “projections for 2024 reveal stalled progress on the Human Development Index in all regions across the world.”