Selected factsheets

Developers of key indicators and measures have been asked to describe the development and implementation of their indicator(s) in their own words. Each paper describes the need for the indicator, its findings and uses, and future possibilities for its further development.

The list below includes selected factsheets which are considered particularly relevant for journalists:

• Adjusted Net Savings (pdf, 160 kb) (Alexandra Sears and Giovanni Ruta, The World Bank)
• Corruption Perceptions Index (pdf, 320 kb) (Transparency International (TI); Other TI indicators: BPI (pdf, 106 kb) , GCB (pdf, 114 kb) , NSI (pdf, 88 kb) , PRT) (pdf, 87 kb)
• Ecological Footprint
  Up-to-date information also available at the website of the Global Footprint Network
• EU set of Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs)
  See also information about the most recent SDI's
• Human Development Index (HDI)
  See also updated information about HDIs
• Happy Life Years (HLY)
  See also information about the most recent HLY
• MDG Dashboard of Sustainability
  Many useful MGD measures at the Millennium Development Goals Indicators Dashboard
• Sustainable Society Index (SSI)
  See also most recent SSI
• System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (pdf, 507 kb) (London Group on Environmental Accounting)
• World Happiness Index
  See also up-to-date information at the website of GLOBECO

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