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.

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.

The 2017 SERF Index Update covers the years 2005 through 2015.  This major update incorporates the construction of updated Achievement Possibility Frontiers using 2011 PPP$ GDP per capita data.
Learn more about this update here.
Download the 2017 data here

A new data visualization tool for the 2017 Update is now available that allows you to make radar plots of country performance for 2005, 2010, or 2015 evaluating performance using either the Core Index or the Supplementary Index for High Income OECD Countries. Check out this option here.