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Average life expectancy went down slightly compared to the previous study released in 2017.

The 2025 United Nations (UN) Human Development Report published earlier this month reveals an unprecedented slowdown on the Human Development Indices (HDI) in all regions of the world, along with ...

This research uses panel data to explore inferences about human development associated with two different formulations of the Human Development Index (HDI). The first is the standard HDI as computed ...

Since 1990, the United Nations (UN) has used the Human Development Index (HDI) to assess the development of a country using indicators of well-being ...

Figure A shows the age-standardized incidence and mortality of cervical cancer worldwide in 2022. The blue diamond represents the regional rate, the black vertical line represents the country rate, ...