Kathmandu, June 11 -- Nepal has ranked 145th out of 193 countries in the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI) for 2025, with a score of 0.622. The country remains in the medium human development category, continuing its gradual progress in recent decades.

This year's Human Development Report, themed "A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)," warns that global HDI progress, already disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, is losing momentum.

The once-narrowing gap between countries with very high and low HDI scores has started to widen again since 2020.

The report explores the choices that countries can make to ensure more equitable development in the AI e...