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1.2. Measuring Human Development

Most systematic effort towards measuring Human Development was the publication of the First Human Development Report by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1990. Since then, UNDP has been bringing out World Human Development Report every year. This report does not only define human development, make amendments and changes its indicators but also ranks all the countries of the world based on the calculated scores.

 

1.2.1. Human Development Index (HDI)Figure 1. Components of HDI