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Data Archive

The files below contain previous, now outdated versions of the SERF Index. They are provided here for the convenience of researchers who my be currently using these older versions of the data.

2017 International SERF Index Downloads

2015 International SERF Index Downloads

2013 International SERF Index Downloads

2012 International SERF Index Downloads

2011 International SERF Index Downloads

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

Announcing New Partnership
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 […]

Grawemeyer Award Winners
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph are the 2019 winners of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for improving World Order. The trio received the award for their book Fulfilling Economic and Social Rights. They will travel to Louisville, Kentucky to give a series of lectures on their book and will formally receive the […]

ESREI Collaborates with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative, HRMI, has adopted the Right Indices comprising the SERF Index as their economic and social rights metrics. They have just launched data visualization tools that allow you easily to compare a country’s performance on the different rights at a given time and over time, and to compare performance on each […]

2017 SERF INDEX UPDATE NOW AVAILABLE
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