The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) continues to partner with the SERF Index Project and has adopted the SERF Index as its “income-adjusted” measure of country economic and social rights performance, which it calls its “Quality of Life” metric.  HRMI’s data visualization tool, https://rightstracker.org/ has been updated to include data from the 2026 update of the International SERF Index.  The tool allows you to visualize country performance overall, by rights, by sex, and over time.  It also allows you to compare country performance overall, by right, and on each of SERF’s right aspects

The 2026 Update of the international SERF Index is now available and covers a 33-year period, 1990 to 2023.  The data cover five rights—the rights to education, food, health, housing and work—and two assessment standards—one most applicable to low-and middle-income countries and the other most applicable to high-income countries.  Data are available on at least one right for 200 countries and sex disaggregated data are also available on the rights to food, education, two components of the right to health and one component of the right to work.  You can find an overview of the 2026 update HERE and download the 2026 Update data HERE.

The 2022 Update of the International SERF Index is now available. This year’s update includes sex disaggregated data on food security. As a result, this year’s update includes sex disaggregated data on the right to education, right to food, and two aspects of the right to health for both the low- and middle- income assessment standard and the high income assessment standard. You can find an overview of the 2022 Update HERE and download the 2022 Update data HERE.

The 2021 update of the International SERF Index is now available! This year’s update re-estimated all of the achievement possibility frontiers used to benchmark State obligations using the new round of the International Comparison Project providing per capita income data measured in 2017 PPP$. This year’s update continues to include sex disaggregation of many scores on many right aspects and the excess income metric scores introduced last year. You can find an overview of the 2021 Update HERE and download the 2021 Update data HERE.

The 2019 Update of the SERF Index is now available.  See HERE for information about what’s new and HERE to download the data.

The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative has joined forces with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, HRMI.  HRMI has adopted the SERF Index and underlying metrics as its economic and social rights scores for their “income-adjusted” quality of life metrics. HRMI proides extensive data visualization tools showing country performance over time and comparing country performance at a given time.  Explore HRMI’s data HERE.