Description
The database contains the 50+1 indicators of the Commission's sustainable and inclusive wellbeing dashboard, extracted from publicly available sources. Component-level synthetic indices are also available, and a set of weights with which country group values can be created. The
database is used to analyze and monitor the state of wellbeing across its different components in the EU Member States.
Contact
Contributors
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- Alina-Mihaela Sandor
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- Peter Benczur
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- Enrico Giovannini
How to cite
Alina-Mihaela Sandor; Benczur, Peter; Enrico Giovannini (2025): Sustainable and inclusive wellbeing dashboard: autumn 2025 release. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/8b294d25-ae5f-4b88-aa71-90b5b9715d4a
Keywords
environment Inclusiveness Sustainability wellbeing
Data access
The document provides methodology and background information for creating the Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing (SIWB) dashboards.
The database contains data used in the Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing (SIWB) dashboards along seven components: Wellbeing today, Resources for the future, Societal resilience, Nature, Inequalities, Spillovers, and Institutions. For each component raw data, as well as imputed data are provided, The database also contains components' synthetic indices, plus a total index combining all components, and GDP per capita. Latest available year is generally 2023.
Data contains sets of weights with which one can create values of all the indicators for any country groups. Among others: population by age groups, projected population, land and protected areas, employment rates.
Publications
- Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Abstract
Announced in the 2023 Strategic Foresight Report of the Commission, the sustainable and inclusive wellbeing initiative recognizes the usefulness of GDP but also the need for complimentary indicators to fully capture all aspects of the quality of life, inclusiveness, and sustainability. One of its main objectives is to develop a multidimensional dashboard, which integrates existing tools and frameworks into a set of indicators that provide a holistic view of the wellbeing of people and the planet. This development involved a rigorous process in an inter-service working group, narrowing down over a thousand potential measures to a comprehensive dashboard of 140 and eventually 50 indicators. Besides documenting the process, this report presents some preliminary analyses based on the dashboard of 50 indicators and corresponding synthetic indices. The analysis shows that the state of wellbeing and its components in the European Union varies across Member States, presenting important examples of a decoupling of wellbeing from income. While there is a general correlation between economic prosperity and wellbeing, there are notable exceptions and trade-offs between different aspects of wellbeing. In times of renewed discussions around the need to boost EU’s competitiveness, the SIWB dashboard can be a central monitoring tool to make sure that reigniting Europe’s economic engine does not become an end in itself but rather a means for delivering wellbeing to all people of the current and future generations, and to the planet.
Geographic areas
Temporal coverage
| From date | To date |
|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2025-12-10
- Modified date
- 2025-12-16
- Issued date
- 2025-12-10
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Economy and finance, Education, culture and sport, Environment, Government and public sector, Health, Population and society
- Update frequency
- annual
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/8b294d25-ae5f-4b88-aa71-90b5b9715d4a
- Popularity
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