Index of Sustainable Development and its components

The proposed Sustainable Development Gauging Metrics methodology assesses sustainable development by considering two main components: Quality of Life and Security of Life.

The Quality of Life component (Cql) evaluates the harmonization of society's development across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. It comprises:

Economic dimension (Iec): combining global competitiveness and economic freedom indices, addressing SDGs 8, 9, 10, and 12;

Environmental dimension (Ie): utilizing the Environmental Performance Index, focusing on SDGs 6, 13, 14, and 15;

Social dimension (Is): covering poverty, health, education, justice, etc., with 26 indicators, reflecting societal-level SDGs.

The indicator of harmonization assesses the balance between economic, environmental, and social dimensions.

The Security of Life component (Csl), evaluates the impact of 11 global threats on countries. These threats include decrease in energy security, imbalance between biological capacity of the Earth and human needs in biosphere, growing inequality between people and countries on the Earth, spread of global diseases, information gap, corruption, limited access to drinking water, impact of climate change and natural disaster, state fragility, proliferation and global terrorism, conflict intensity increasing.

The purpose of this dataset is to present the results of the assessing and analyzing the Sustainable Development Index of the 134 world countries based on 2005-2022 data.