Lusaka, 13th December 2019 – UNDP Zambia Country Office has launched the Global UNDP 2019 Human Development Report titled “Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: inequalities in human development in the 21st century.”
According to the UNDP Resident Representative Lionel Laurens, Zambia has made commendable progress over the past decades from 1990 (date of the first Human Development Report) to 2018.
He said during the launch that, “Zambia’s life expectancy at birth increased by more than 14 years (63,5/49,2), while the average years of schooling increased by nearly 5 years with an HDI value for 2018 being 0.591—which put the country in the medium human development category—positioning it at 143 out of 189 countries and territories”.
This year’s report is the first in a new generation of HDRs for UNDP, pushing the boundaries as part of #NextGenUNDP to accelerate thought leadership, drive conversation on the future of development, and in doing so, advance progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
which pioneers a more precise way to measure countries’ socioeconomic progress, says that just as the gap in basic living standards is narrowing, with an unprecedented number of people escaping poverty, hunger and disease, the necessities to thrive have evolved. New inequalities are becoming more pronounced, particularly around tertiary education, and the seismic effects of technology and the climate crisis.
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