Social Progress in nations

Index of social progress    Human development index  

Variable Measurement Era SPSS code N Source
Index of Social Progress (ISP) Index of:
1) Education subindex (school enrolment, literacy, expenditures on education)
2) Health status subindex (infant mortality, physicians per 1000, male life expectancy)
3) Women status subindex (girls in primary school, female illiteracy, women suffrage)
4) Defense effort subindex (expenditures on defense in % GNP)
5) Economic subindex (growth, income p/c, inflation, rise food production)
6) Demography subindex (population size, birth rate, death rate, population growth, % below age 15)
7) Geography subindex (arable land, natural disasters, lives lost in disasters), 8. Participation (violation of political and civil rights
9) Cultural diversity subindex (same language, same religion, ethnic fractionalization)
10) Welfare effort subindex (system seniority, years since welfare laws)

An earlier version of the ISP also involved 'political stability'. 		1970 ISP_1970 45 Estes 1988 table A-1
1980 ISP_1980 46 Estes 1988 table A-1
1983 ISP_1983 46 Estes 1988 table A-1
Human Development Index Index of:
1. Buying power p/c, higher incomes count less (+)
2. Adult life-expectancy (+)
3. Education, years of schooling (+)
All scores expressed on distance between minimum and maximum.		 1960 HDI_1960 57

UN-HDR 1998 table 5
1970 HDI_1970 57
1975 HDI_1975 101

UN-HDR
Trend file 2007

1980 HDI_1980 113
1985 HDI_1985 121
1990 HDI_1990 135
1995 HDI_1995 145
2000 HDI_2000 166
2005 HDI_2003 168
Social Development Index

Index of:
1) Life expectancy at birth
2) Adult literacy in % age 15 and above
3) Gross school enrolment
4) Infant survival rate
5) Daily supply of calories p/c
6) Daily supply of proteins p/c
7) Daily supply of fat p/c
8) Telephones per 1000
9) Physicians per 100.000
10) Electric consumption in Kwh p/c
India = 100

2000 SDI_2000 102 Ray 2008
Related variables:
Physical Quality of Life (Health) 		Related topics:
Education
Health
Wealth
Population pressure
Welfare state
Standard of living

Related themes:
Modernity

States of Nations is an inventory of country characteristics. It is part of the World Database of Happiness

Keywords added: Cross-national, Development, Improvement, Livability, Progress, Quality of life, Social evolution, Wealth, Regress