Men and individuals living in high human development index areas had heightened global lifetime risks for lung cancer in 2022 vs. women and those living in low Human Development Index areas ...

Srilanka, May 8 -- Sri Lanka ranks 89th among the 193 countries featured in the 2025 Human Development Index (HDI) released recently by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

This all took a toll on global standards of living. One measure of this, the UN ’s Human Development Index (HDI), fell in 2020 for the first time since its launch in 1990. It fell again in 2021.