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Life expectancy, income and education enrollment fall for second year in a row: UN

The Free Press Journal | 08/09/2022 03:22 PM | Click to read full article

A United Nations report published on Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

The UN Development Program (UNDP) announced that for the first time since it was created over 30 years ago, the Human Development Index has declined for two years straight, in 2020 and 2021.

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