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A report published by the U.N. Development Program finds the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, economic uncertainty and other crises have halted progress in human development and reversed gains made over the past three decades. Data from 191 countries show 90% failed to achieve a better, healthier, more secure life for their people in 2020 and…

The UN's Human Development Index has declined globally for two years in a row for the first time in 32 years amid the combined effects of climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

"We have experienced disasters before, we have had conflicts before, but the confluence of what we are facing today is a major setback for the development of humanity,"

India has dropped another rank on the Human Development Index and now stands at 132, amid a general decline following the Covid pandemic

The report which surveyed 191 countries, noted that that the coronavirus pandemic has set back global human development by five years.

Gains in health, education, and standard of living over the past three decades have been reversed, according to the report

Bangladesh has moved ahead in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index.

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

The average life expectancy at birth in India decreased by nearly three years over the first two years of the pandemic.