According to the Human Development Report 2021/2022, eleven million people live in Haiti. The island nation has not yet recovered from the consequences of the severe earthquake in 2010 and the renewed quakes in 2021. Poverty, a high illiteracy rate and a deficient health care system determine the...

According to the Human Development Report 2021/2022, Kenya is home to around 55 million people from more than 40 ethnic groups. Conditions in the country are characterised by great regional differences. Serious human rights violations, high infant and maternal mortality rates, ethnic conflicts and...

According to the Human Development Report 2021/2022, the majority of Malawi's nearly 20 million inhabitants live from agriculture. Large parts of the country are regularly hit by weather extremes such as droughts. Harvests fail, straining the nutritional situation of many smallholder farmers.

With over 17 million inhabitants according to the Human Development Report 2021/2022, Guatemala is the most populous state in Central America. The country has experienced dictatorships and prolonged civil wars in the 20th century. Gang crime, environmental problems caused by rigid mining, great...

The world's largest island nation with a tropical, hot and humid climate is spread over 17,508 islands. Religious freedom is significantly restricted in Indonesia, as residents must profess one of five recognised world religions. There are also many health problems caused by industrial air pollution...

Mozambique has been struggling with various problems since a civil war that lasted for years in the 20th century. Child labor and poverty among the elderly are widespread. Major challenges in the country are also the consequences of climate change. Cyclones and the resulting floods destroy fields...

In the 1990s, Zimbabwe was considered one of the economically strongest countries in Africa. As part of a land reform in 2000, farmland was expropriated from peasant farms and redistributed. The result was a collapse of the economy. As a result, and due to an increase in weather extremes such as...

The republic is Europe's second-largest country by area and has a population of more than 43 million, according to the Human Development Report 2021/2022. In February 2014, a conflict broke out between Russia and Ukraine over the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which continues to this day. Since then...

Madagascar is considered one of the ten countries most at risk from climate change worldwide. The second largest island nation in terms of area on our planet is frequently hit by the effects of climate change. Natural forces such as hurricanes, floods and droughts threaten the livelihood of the...