Graphic detail | A setback
A ranking of 193 countries shows that human development is stalling almost everywhere
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IN THE THROES of the covid-19 pandemic—when hospitals overflowed, schools and offices shut, and economies seized up—many asked when the world would recover. Five years later, the data show that the setback to living standards could endure.
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