The 2025 Human Development Report highlights India's progress and challenges in human development , focusing on inequality, gender equity, and the transformative potential of AI in sectors like healthcare, education, and governance The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development . Used by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to measure a country’s development , the Human Development Index (HDI) is an index assessing three key dimensions of human development : 1. A long and healthy life measured by life expectancy. 2. Access to education measured by expected years of schooling of children at school-entry age and mean years of schooling of the adult population. Explore the wealth of human development data and insights from around the world, including the Human Development Index (HDI), the complementary composite indices on gender gaps, inequality, poverty, planetary pressures, and thematic dashboards on quality of human development , life-course gender gap ...