The back-to-back crises erased five years of human progress, the UN said in a new report.
Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, worsening climate change and the war in Ukraine have started to reverse decades of human progress in education, life expectancy and standards of living around the world, the United Nations warned in a
The matter is a global issue, the UNDP stressed, with nine out of 10 countries moving backwards on the UN’s Human Development Index—a broad measure of countries’ standards of living, education levels and life expectancy designed to assess well-being alongside economic factors like GDP—over the last two years.
Overall, the past two years have erased five years of progress and pushed human development back to 2016 levels, the UNDP said.
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