Variable	Measurement	Era	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
		1983	ISP_1983	46
		2017	ISP_2017	105	Michalos 2018
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 topics: Education, Average happiness, Change happiness, Inequality of happiness, Inequality Adjusted happiness, Happy Life Years, Health outcomes, Income, Life expectancy, Standard of living
Related themes: Inequality, Health, Modernity, Subjective Well-being

The dataset States of Nations is about characteristics of countries in periods (macro variables). It is part of the World Database of Happiness. Developed for the identification of societal conditions for happiness, the source can also be used for other purposes.