The UN Development Programme released a report in 2020 on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SDGs, COVID-19 and Human Developm
ent: Assessing the Crisis, Envisioning the Recovery. The executive summary states, "The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a human development crisis. On some dimensions of human development, conditions today are equivalent to levels of deprivation last seen in the mid-1980s....This note takes a capabilities approach to document the severity of the unfolding human development crisis."