Social Sustainability Global Database

The Social Sustainability global database and its visualization dashboard are global public goods produced by the Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice of The World Bank Group.  They feature 85 leading indicators of inclusion, resilience, social cohesion, and process legitimacy, for 222 countries, disaggregated by population group and analyzed spatially and over time. In addition, the dashboard allows the user to overlay the indicators in the geospatial platform of the World Bank GroupData Sources, technical noteThe database and dashboard draw from 18 publicly available data sources comprising Barometers, the World Values Survey, the European Values Study, the Global Monitoring Database, ACLED, World Development Indicators, among others. The full list of data sources can be found here, and the technical note used for its construction can be accessed hereDisaggregationPopulation group disaggregation can be performed by: gender (female/male); age (15-24 years vs 25+ years or 15-29 years, 30-59 years, 60+years); location (urban/rural); ethnicity and religion (major group/others). Analysis over time can be performed for two waves: 2015-2018 and 2019-2022. Spatial analysis can be performed at the first administrative level (ADM1). AnalysisThe dashboard offers four main analytical tools: country profile, country benchmarking, regional benchmarking and associations. The country profile option allows the user to examine the social profile of a country in a given wave. The benchmarking options allow comparisons of a country in two different time periods or across regions or globally. The associations function offers the user the option to examine patterns between two indicators.Open dataThe SSI database and dashboard being global public goods follow the open data and reproducibility policies of the World Bank Group. The STATA codes, codebook, and technical note used for constructing the indicators are available here in GitHub.Links to resourcesDashboardCodebookTechnical NotesSupplementary material (for technical notes)GitHub Repository