Measuring multiple dimensions of social progress is indispensable to understanding its components,
benchmarking success, and catalyzing improvement. The Social Progress Index provides a holistic,
objective, transparent, outcome-based measure of a country’s wellbeing that is independent of
economic indicators. The Social Progress Index can be used to compare countries on different
facets of social progress, allowing the identification of specific areas of strength or weakness at the
country level. It also allows countries to benchmark themselves against peer countries both at the
level of individual indicators as well as in terms of more aggregate measures of social progress.