Chapter 2: Human development and work: progress and challenges


Over the past two decades, the world has made major strides in human development. Today, people are living longer, more children are going to school and more people have access to clean water and basic sanitation.

Since 1990, 2 billion people have been lifted out of low human development, extreme income poverty has been reduced by more than a billion. Every region of the world has seen Human Development Index (HDI) gains.

Interactive visualization below explores changes in HDI and its components on country, region and global levels.


The tree represents human development, measured by the Human Development Index for the selected country or region


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