The Social Progress Index scores what life is actually like in each country — health, safety, education, rights, opportunity — independently of GDP. Explore how 180 countries have moved between 1990 and 2023.
Map, rank, compare, and correlate all 68 metrics — the overall SPI, its 3 dimensions, 12 components, and 52 underlying indicators. Red is always worst, blue is always best.
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The full trajectory of one country: overall score, the three dimensions, all twelve components, and its position among peers over time.
Up to seven countries at every level of the index — any of 68 metrics, component radar profiles, a percentile heatmap of all 52 indicators, and a gap analysis showing exactly where each country leads or lags.
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Every country in every year — sortable by any column, filterable, exportable. Only officially ranked countries appear here (partial-data countries are shown on their profile pages). Ranks are the official SPI ranks from the dataset. Year-on-year movement (▲▼) is computed from score order; Δ is against each country's first available year.
| # | ± | Country | Region | SPI | Basic Human Needs | Foundations of Wellbeing | Opportunity | Δ since start |
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The Social Progress Index measures the wellbeing of societies directly — using social and environmental outcome indicators only, never economic ones. It answers a question GDP cannot: is life actually getting better?
Each country's score, from 0 to 100, aggregates three dimensions, each built from four components, each in turn constructed from multiple outcome indicators. Dimensions answer three questions: does a country provide for its people's most essential needs, are the building blocks in place for individuals to sustain wellbeing, and is there opportunity for every person to reach their full potential? Indicator data are drawn from international sources, standardized, aggregated by principal components within each component, and scaled against fixed best- and worst-case anchors so that scores are comparable across countries and over time.
The Social Progress Index only assigns an overall score and an official rank to countries with sufficient data across all twelve components. The dataset classifies every country-year accordingly, and the site labels countries that are not fully ranked:
Ranked countries appear on the map and in the rankings. Partial countries (for example, a country in its early years before full coverage) are kept in the data and shown on their profile pages with a Partial badge, so the record is complete without implying a rank the methodology does not support.
This site presents annual SPI scores for up to 180 countries from 1990 through 2023, computed with a consistent methodology across the full period so that changes over time reflect real changes in outcomes rather than changes in measurement. Countries enter the series when sufficient indicator coverage exists, so early years contain fewer countries than recent ones. Scores shown here are from the Social Progress Imperative's research pipeline.
Scores are anchored 0–100, but no country sits at either extreme. Small year-to-year movements can reflect data revisions in underlying sources as well as genuine change; multi-year trends are more reliable than single-year jumps. Ranks depend on how many countries are scored in a given year, so comparing a country's score over time is safer than comparing its rank. For methodology details, see the Social Progress Imperative at socialprogress.org.