Social progress is the capacity of a society to
meet the basic human needs of its citizens, establish the building blocks that
allow citizens and communities to enhance and sustain the quality of their lives,
and create the conditions for all individuals to reach their full
potential.
The 2015 Social Progress Index includes 133
countries covering 94% of the world’s population, plus 28 countries with
partial data. If the world were one country, it would score 61.00 on the Social
Progress Index on a population-weighted basis. It see important global
differences across the various aspects of social progress.
