Since the UN began to report on the Human Development Index in 1990, a steady upwards trend of the Index was to be observed. That held on for nearly thirty years, until 2019. Yet the latest report paints a different, grimmer picture. For the first time, the global Human Development Index value has declined two years in a row.

Since the UN began to report on the Human Development Index in 1990, a steady upwards trend of the Index was to be observed. That held on for nearly thirty years, until 2019. Yet the latest report paints a different, grimmer picture. For the first time, the global Human Development Index value has declined two years in a row.

Since the UN began to report on the Human Development Index in 1990, a steady upwards trend of the Index was to be observed. That held on for nearly thirty years, until 2019. Yet the latest report paints a different, grimmer picture. For the first time, the global Human Development Index value has declined two years in a row.