Human Development Reports

These annual reports from the United Nations Development Program provide information, statistics, tables, graphs and case studies from developing and developed countries on a range of development topics.

According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), people are the real wealth of nations and development is about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value.

Human development is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests.

This is the consistent theme throughout the various Human Development Reports which UNDP has produced.

Themes of recent reports include:

Human Development Report 2006 Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis

Water security is an integral part of this broader conception of human security. In broad terms water security is about ensuring that every person has reliable access to enough safe water at an affordable price to lead a healthy, dignified and productive life, while maintaining the ecological systems that provide water and also depend on water. When these conditions are not met, or when access to water is disrupted, people face acute human security risks transmitted through poor health and the disruption of livelihoods.

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Human Development Report 2005 International Cooperation at a Crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
This Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Looking beyond statistics, it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs

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Human Development Report 2004 Cultural Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to speak their language, practice their religion, and participate in shaping their culture—so that all people can choose to be who they are

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 Human Development Report 2003 Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty
The range of human development in the world is vast and uneven, with astounding progress in some areas amidst stagnation and dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor, and a global development compact to extend the wealth of possibilities to all people.

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Human Development Report 2002 Deepening democracy in a fragmented world
This Human Development Report is first and foremost about the idea that politics is as important to successful development as economics. Sustained poverty reduction requires equitable growth-but it also requires that poor people have political power. And the best way to achieve that in a manner consistent with human development objectives is by building strong and deep forms of democratic governance at all levels of society.

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Human Development Report 2001 Making new technologies work for human development
Technology networks are transforming the traditional map of development, expanding people's horizons and creating the potential to realize in a decade progress that required generations in the past.

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