Quality of Life

HDI is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators. A country scores higher HDI when the life expectancy at birth is longer, the education period is longer, and the income per capita is higher.  Sou ...

While the simple HDI remains useful, it stated that "the IHDI is the actual level of human development (accounting for inequality)" and "the HDI can be viewed as an index of “potential” human development (or the maximum ...

HDI is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators. A country scores higher HDI when the life expectancy at birth is longer, the education period is longer, and the income per capita is higher.  Sou ...

Map represents number of population in MPI. Source:  Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (2015)

% of population that is vulnerable to poverty (those who experience 20-33.32% intensity of deprivations). Source: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (2015)

MPI is an international measure of acute poverty covering over 100 developing countries. Uses different factors to determine poverty beyond income-based lists by capturing the severe deprivations that each person faces with respect to education, ...

Measures the state of democracy. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit (2015)

Measures the state of democracy. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped in five different categories measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit (2015)

An annual global ranking of democracies. The applied conceptual formula, which measures the quality of democracy, integrates freedom and other characteristics of the political system with the performance of non-political dimensions (gender, econo ...

Measures the extent to which countries provide for the social and environmental needs of their citizens. This includes wellness (including health, shelter and sanitation), equality, inclusion, sustainability and personal freedom and safety. The ...

The ranking is based on a variety of factors including wealth, economic growth, education, health, personal well-being, and quality of life. Source: Legatum (2015)

Measures the global projection of subjective well-being. Whilst collecting data on subjective well-being is not an exact science, the measures used are very reliable in predicting health and welfare outcomes. A nation's level of happiness wa ...

Measures which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead. It is based on a method that links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys to the objective determinants of quality ...

The Index attempts to measure the global impacts of national policies and behaviours: what the country contributes to the global commons and what they take away. Source: Simon Anholt, Dr Robert Govers with support from several other organisation ...

HPI an index of human well-being and environmental impact. The index is weighted to give progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological footprints. The index is designed to challenge well-established indices of countries’ dev ...

Describes how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations. Reflects growing global interest in using happiness and subjective well-being as primary indicators of the quality of human development. Source: ...

GPI is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. The index gauges global peace using three broad themes: the level of safety and security in society, the extent of domestic and international confli ...