Nepal’s ranking in the global Human Development Index (HDI) has gone up by a notch, indicating slight improvement in wellbeing and basic education attainment of Nepalis. Nepal ranked 145th in HDI in 2014, with a score of 0.548, as against 2013’s ranking of 146 and a score of 0.543, The United Nations Development Programme ranks countries into four tiers of human development by combining measurements of life expectancy, education, and per capita income into the Human Development Index in its annual Human Development Report. The HDI is a summary index using life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling for children and mean years of schooling for adults, and GNI per capita. The final HDI is a value between 0 and 1 with countries grouped into four categories depending he Nepal Human Development Report 2014 is a joint effort of the National Planning Commission and UNDP. However, the findings, analysis and policy recommendations of the Report are those of the authors alone. In line with UNDP Corporate Policy on national human development reports, the preparation of the Nepal Human Develop-