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 199 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 2025 Update of the International SERF Index is now available and covers a 32-year period, 1990 to 2022.  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 2025 Update HERE and download the 2025 Update data HERE.

The 2024 Update of the International SERF Index is now available and covers a 31 year period, 1990 to 2021.  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 195 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 2024 Update HERE and download the 2024 Update data HERE.

The 2023 Update of the International SERF Index is now available.  This year’s update covers three full decades—1990 to 2020—and includes country level data on five rights—the rights to education, food, health, housing, and work for two assessment standards—the high income assessment standard and the low-and-middle income assessment standard.  Additionally, it includes sex disaggregated data on the right to education, right to food, and two aspects of the right to health for both assessment standards.  You can find an overview of the 2023 Update HERE and download the 2023 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.