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The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006. Each country's HPI value is a function of its average subjective life satisfaction , life expectancy at birth, and ecological footprint per capita.
The Happy Planet Index was used along with data from UNESCO on access to schooling, from the WHO on life expectancy, and from the CIA on GDP per capita to perform a new analysis to come to a unique and novel set of results. [6] Specifically, the extent of correlation between measures of poverty, health and education, and the variable of happiness.
Nic Marks is an independent policy adviser, speaker, statistician and author. He is best known for his work on the Happy Planet Index, [1] [2] as a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) [3] in London.
Worldwide levels of happiness as measured by the World Happiness Report (2023) The World Happiness Report is a publication that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives, [1] which the report also correlates with various (quality of) life factors.
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI) Happy Planet Index (HPI) List of countries by ecological footprint; Sustainable Society Index (SSI) The Global 100 (G100) List of countries by freshwater withdrawal
The Happy Planet Index calculates how many happy life years each country is able to generate per global hectare of ecological footprint. One of the striking conclusions to emerge from ecological footprint accounting is that it would be necessary to have 4 or 5 back-up planets engaged in nothing but agriculture for all those alive today to live ...
Despite the story the records tell of Patrick’s generally happy disposition and his willingness to role-play his way to sobriety, he still hadn’t shed the self-doubt he had carried with him into treatment. Nor had he shaken the vicious cravings of his addiction.
The Happy Planet Index, introduced in 2006, is unique among quality of life measures in that, in addition to standard determinants of well-being, it uses each country's ecological footprint as an indicator. As a result, European and North American nations do not dominate this measure.