Youth Progress Index 2023
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Youth Progress Index 2023, highlighting key findings from 153 countries at both global and regional levels over 12 years. The analysis of country performances during this time revealed that five countries have seen a stall in their Youth Progress performance, indicating a need for renewed efforts to achieve progress for young people.
The United Kingdom in particular stands out as a country demonstrating evident stagnation. Seven further countries have witnessed a decline, raising concerns over the deteriorating trends, particularly in North America, where housing, health and rights issues have surfaced. Read the report to find out more!
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curious how Youth Progress is measured?
The Youth Progress Index 2023 combines 60 social and environmental outcome indicators, and it covers a time series of 12 years (2011-2022). The Index fully ranks 153 countries, and it also partially covers additional 43 countries, providing component and dimension scores whenenough data are available. In all, the Youth Progress Index measures at least some aspects of youth progress across more than 99.9% of the world’s young population. This report describes the methodology used to calculate the Youth Progress Index 2023.
Since the YPI is intended to measure social progress of the youth population, it is heavily based on the Social Progress Index principles and calculation methodology. Therefore, we start this report by describing the principles that establish the conceptual architecture of the Social Progress Index and provide an overview of the Social Progress Index framework used in the creation of the YPI. We then detail the steps taken to select data and calculate the YPI. Finally, we discuss the methodology behind assessing countries’ strengths and weaknesses, relative to their economic prosperity. We conclude the report with an evaluation of the Index’s structural integrity and with limitations of YPI.
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