This year’s Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics, it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development—and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs.

• Foreword, Acknowledgements, Contents (PDF 207KB)
• Overview: International cooperation at a crossroads: aid, trade and security in an unequal world (PDF 189KB)
• Chapter 1: The state of human development (PDF 1,258KB)
• Chapter 2: Inequality and human development (PDF 684KB)
• Chapter 3: Aid for the 21st century (PDF 781KB)
• Chapter 4: International trade—unlocking the potential for human development (PDF 831KB)
• Chapter 5: Violent conflict—bringing the real threat into focus (PDF 536KB)
• Notes, Bibliographic note, Bibliography (PDF 356KB)
• Human Development Indicators (PDF 1,344KB)
• Technical Notes (PDF 854KB)
• Download the complete report (PDF 6.3 MB)
  

Previous Human Development Reports

• Human Development Report 2004
  Cultural Liberty in Today?s Diverse World
• Human Development Report 2003
  Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty
• Human Development Report 2002
  Deepening democracy in a fragmented world
• Human Development Report 2001
  Making new technologies work for human development
• Human Development Report 2000
  Human rights and human development