The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published on the 8^th of September 2022 the 31^st edition of its Human Development Report titled “Uncertain Times, Uncertain Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World”. According to the report, we are currently living in a world of worry mainly owing to significant crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate change while also noting that said crises are giving way to a host of new uncertainties at the global scale. In this vein, the report commented that the world is facing an “uncertainty complex”, whereby people are not only affected by everyday uncertainty but also by the drastic societal transformations similar to the industrial revolution and the unexpected uncertainty of polarized societies. The report noted, however, that handling the aforementioned uncertainty complex is hindered by persistent deprivations and inequalities in human development. The report stated that a focus on investment, insurance and innovation policies can help guide people through the uncertainty complex and thrive against it. With regards to the investment policy, the report mentioned that investments could range from renewable energy to preparedness for pandemics & extreme natural hazards, which will ease planetary pressures and prepare societies to better withstand global shocks. Concerning the insurance policy, it helps protect people from the probability of an uncertain world as was the case with the COVID-19 pandemic. As for the innovation policy, it could involve technological, economic and/or cultural innovations with the UNDP report highlighting that it will be necessary to respond to the unknown challenges that humans might encounter. As for COVID-19, the report stated that despite the success of vaccination programs around the globe which have averted the deaths of about 20 million individuals, access to the vaccines remains exceptionally low in several low-income countries. In figures, the report revealed that circa 72% of individuals in high income countries have been administered at least one dose of the vaccine as of July 27, 2022 in comparison with a meager 21% in low income countries. The index is computed based on the scores attained in four main aspects of human development namely, life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, mean years of schooling and the gross national income per capita (GNI/Capita) in a total of 191 countries based on data collected for the year 2021. More specifically, 66 countries were classified as having very high human development, 49 as high human development, 44 as medium human development and 32 countries came in the low human development group. Globally, Switzerland topped the list with an HDI score of 0.962, followed closely by Norway (HDI: 0.961), Iceland (HDI: 0.959), Hong Kong (HDI: 0.952), Australia (HDI: 0.951) and Denmark (HDI: 0.948), just to name a few. On a regional basis, the United Arab Emirates ranked 1^st with a global rank of 26 and an HDI score of 0.911 followed by Bahrain & Saudi Arabia (global rank: 35, HDI: 0.875 each), Qatar (global rank: 42, HDI: 0.855), Kuwait (global rank: 50, HDI: 0.831) and Oman (global rank: 54, HDI: 0.816). Locally, the report classified Lebanon among countries with “high human development” as the country registered an HDI of 0.706 placing it in the 112^th position worldwide and the 13^th among its Arab peers. In detail, the average life expectancy at birth in Lebanon stood at 75.0 years, the second highest in the region, while expected years of schooling was 11.3 years in 2021, and the mean years of schooling stood at 8.7 years. Lebanon’s gross national income per capita reached 9,526 $PPP in 2021 compared to an Arab states’ average of 13,501 $PPP and a world average of 16,752 $PPP. Moreover, Lebanon underperformed both the Arab states’ average HDI score of 0.708 and the world’s average HDI score of 0.732.