DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

 The 2025 Human Development Report for the Dominican Republic ranks the Dominican Republic 89th out of 193 countries. This is the same ranked reported for the DR in the 2021 and 2023 United Nations Human Development Reports.

The 2025 report highlights that the Human Development Index (HDI) has increased 32% since 1990, the year the UNDP began measuring it. This places the country in the category of “high human development.”

The report mentions that from 2010 to 2023, the Dominican Republic achieved a 1.7% annual reduction in inequality, which is faster than the 1% average for the Latin American and Caribbean region. Since 2018, the country has shown less inequality in relation to its HDI compared to the rest of the region.

Despite the positive aggregate figures, inequality continues to be a major obstacle to national development, limiting the full and equal enjoyment of human development for all citizens.

Between 2010 and 2022, the country lost nearly 22% of its human...