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.
Announcements
Visualize the 2024 Update SERF Index Data Using Rightstracker.org
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, rightstracker.org has been updated to include data from the 2024 Update of the International SERF Index. The tool allows you to visualize country performance overall, by right, by sex, and over time. It also allows you to compare country performance overall, by right, and on each of SERF’s right aspects.
2023 Update International SERF Index Now Available
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.
Visualize the 2023 Update SERF Index Data Using Rightstracker.org
The SERF Index Project continues to partner with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). HRMI has adopted the SERF Index as its “income adjusted” quality of life metrics. HRMI’s data visualisation tool, rightstracker.org, now has been updated to include data from the 2023 SERF Index Update. This tool allows you to view graphs of country performance overall, by right, by sex, and overtime as well as to compare country performance. Just select “Income adjusted” under “Which performance benchmark?” from the Switch view icon.
2022 Update International SERF Index Now Available
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.
Visualize the 2022 Update SERF Index Data Using Rightstracker.org
The SERF Index Project continues to partner with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). HRMI has adopted the SERF Index as its “income adjusted” quality of life metrics. HRMI’s data visualisation tool, rightstracker.org, now has been updated to include data from the 2022 SERF Index Update. This tool allows you to view graphs of country performance overall, by right, by sex, and overtime as well as to compare country performance. Just select “Income adjusted” under “Which performance benchmark?” from the Switch view icon.
SERF Index Now part of the Universal Rights Group’s Data Portal
The Universal Rights Group is an independent think tank located in Geneva that is focused on “analyzing and strengthening global human rights policy”. Among other things, “it provides a forum for discussion and debate” on human rights issues that seeks to bridge the gap between the international human rights system on the one hand and policy-makers and other stakeholders on the other. The International SERF Index is now included as one of the key indicators in their new “State of the World: Human Rights and Democracy” data portal tracking human rights performance across the globe.
2021 Update International SERF Index Now Available
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.
2020 Update International SERF Index Now Available
The 2020 Update of the International SERF Index is now available. Highlights include sex disaggregation of scores on many right aspects, and the introduction of a new metric–the excess income metric. You can find an overview of the 2020 Update here and download the 2020 Update data here.