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Human Development Report

United Nations Development Programme report

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

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The public source identifies “Human Development Report” as united Nations Development Programme report. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Human, Development and Report.

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This entry incorporates text from “Human Development Report” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.