According to UNDP report, what is the human development index of nepal in 2019
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This year marks the 30th Anniversary of the first Human Development Report and of the introduction of
the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI was published to steer discussions about development
progress away from GPD towards a measure that genuinely “counts” for people’s lives.
Introduced by the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) thirty years ago to provide a simple
measure of human progress – built around people’s freedoms to live the lives they want to - the HDI has
gained popularity with its simple yet comprehensive formula that assesses a population’s average
longevity, education, and income. Over the years, however, there has been a growing interest in
providing a more comprehensive set of measurements that capture other critical dimensions of human
development.
To respond to this call, new measures of aspects of human development were introduced to complement
the HDI and capture some of the “missing dimensions” of development such as poverty, inequality and
gender gaps. Since 2010, HDRO has published the Inequality-adjusted HDI, which adjusts a nation’s
HDI value for inequality within each of its components (life expectancy, education and income) and the
Multidimensional Poverty Index that measures people’s deprivations directly. Similarly, HDRO’s efforts
to measure gender inequalities began in the 1995 Human Development Report on gender, and recent
reports have included two indices on gender, one accounting for differences between men and women
in the HDI dimensions, the other a composite of inequalities in empowerment and well-being.
This briefing note is organized into six sections. The first section presents information on the country
coverage and methodology for the 2020 Human Development Report. The next five sections provide
information about key composite indices of human development: the HDI, the Inequality-adjusted
Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index
(GII), and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
The tables presented in this note depict the state of human development before the COVID-19 pandemic
based on available data for 2019 and earlier years. Data reflecting changes caused by the COVID-19
pandemic and its socioeconomic fallout in 2020 will be available in 2021 and will be presented in tables
and related analyses of the 2021 Human Development Report.
It is important to note that national and international data can differ because international agencies
standardize national data to allow comparability across countries and in some cases may not have
access to the most recent national data.
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