The report shows how AI can rekindle development.
Instead of seeing a sustained recovery following the exceptional period of 2020-2021 crisis, the report reveals unexpectedly weaker progress. Excluding these crisis years, the slightest increase in global human development projected in this year’s report is the smallest increase since 1990.
2025 HDR: “Choice Problems: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI” analyzes development advances across a variety of indicators known as the Human Development Index (HDI), which includes health and education outcomes, along with income levels.
The report highlights the growth of divisions between high and low HDI countries, reversing decades of profit. As a global challenge narrowing traditional development paths, from economic shocks to climate pressures, the report encourages the country to act decisively and inclusively.
“For decades, we have been on track to reach a very high world of human development by 2030, but this slowdown represents a very realistic threat to global advancement,” said UNDP administrator Achim Steiner. “If progress in 2024 becomes a ‘new normal’, that 2030 milestone could slip for decades. Our world is less secure, more divided and more vulnerable to economic and ecological shocks. ”
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