Over 90 percent of countries monitored registered a decline in their Human Development Index (HDI) score in 2021 – Guyana included.
Despite this, Guyana continues to maintain its position in the High human development category, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report.
For the first time in the 32 years that UNDP has been calculating it, the HDI, which measures a nation’s health, education and standard of living, has declined globally for two years in a row. This has reversed progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals to 2016 levels.
