Civilizational stress, made measurable.

Mission

People feel that something is straining — economically, socially, mentally, environmentally — but the data lives in silos. Each indicator has its own home, its own lag, its own units. The result is that public conversation runs on vibes when it could run on comparable numbers.

The Human Index turns that fragmented landscape into a single, comparable, drillable scoreboard. Twenty-five countries, thirty-one indicators, five meta-indexes, one composite. Every value traces back to its source.

What we do

• Aggregate indicators from official sources — World Bank, Eurostat, IMF, OECD, WHO, NASA, Berkeley Earth, IHME, WRI, regulators — every 12 hours.
• Normalize each indicator to a 0–100 stress scale and combine into five meta-indexes using a published formula.
• Surface a weekly editorial layer (Pulse) per country in ten languages, and a long-form Research surface for deeper analyses.
• Make every number drillable to its raw value, reference date, source, and freshness.

What we don't do

• We do not give clinical or policy advice. The composite is a scoreboard, not a diagnosis or a target.
• We do not invent data. Every indicator comes from a published source. When sources disagree, we show the disagreement.
• We do not personalize beyond country and locale. There is no behavioral profiling, no tracking-driven content shaping.

Who this is for

Journalists building stories that need comparable numbers. Researchers pulling cross-country signals. Policy teams looking for a quick orientation. Citizens trying to see where they actually stand. Anyone curious about whether things are as bad as they feel.