Indicators · 31 tracked
Every signal we measure.
Grouped by the five meta-index domains. Click any indicator to see the live ranking across all 25 tracked countries plus the 12-month global trend.
Unemployment Rate
Share of the labor force without work but available and seeking employment.
World Bank%Youth Unemployment Rate
Unemployment rate among the population aged 15-24.
World Bank%Gini Index
Income inequality (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality).
World BankindexHousing Affordability
Median house price relative to median annual income (higher = less affordable).
OECDratioInflation Rate
Annual consumer price inflation (year-on-year % change). Sustained inflation above central-bank targets (typically 2%) is a meaningful economic stress signal.
IMF World Economic Outlook%GDP Growth Rate
Annual % growth of real gross domestic product. Negative = recession, very high (>8%) often reflects overheating or recovery from a crash.
World Bank%Government Debt (% of GDP)
General government gross debt as a share of GDP (IMF WEO October 2024). High debt constrains fiscal space for transition investment and is a structural stress signal. Japan ~252%, Italy ~139%, US ~123% — the high-debt regime is now fully visible across all 25 countries (previously WB lacked coverage for 12).
IMF World Economic Outlook October 2024% of GDPAge Dependency Ratio
Total dependents (under-15 and over-64) as a percentage of the working-age population (15-64). High values stress pension systems, healthcare budgets, and the productive economy; low values can signal aging crisis or population collapse.
World Bank% of working-age
Fertility Rate
Births per woman; below 2.1 indicates below-replacement fertility.
World Bankbirths/womanDivorce Rate
Divorces per 1000 population per year.
UN Statistics / national statsper 1000Social Trust
Share of adults who agree that most people can be trusted (higher = healthier).
World Values Survey%Loneliness
Share of adults reporting frequent or persistent loneliness.
OECD / Eurobarometer%Adolescent Fertility Rate
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19. A composite signal of educational access, contraceptive availability, and economic opportunity for young women. Persistent high values mark inter-generational poverty traps.
World Bankper 1,000 womenHomicide Rate
Intentional homicides per 100,000 population. The most universally collected violence metric — captures social cohesion, rule-of-law, and conflict exposure. Vast range: from 0.2 (JP) to 35+ (parts of Latin America).
World Bank / UNODCper 100kWork-Life Balance
Percentage of dependent employees working very long hours (50+ hours per week). High values indicate structural overwork that erodes family time, leisure, and mental recovery. Korea (26.5%) and Türkiye (28.1%) lead globally; Netherlands and Sweden under 1%.
OECD Employment Database 2024% employees 50h+/week
Depression Prevalence
Share of adults living with a depressive disorder.
WHO / IHME%Anxiety Prevalence
Share of adults living with an anxiety disorder.
WHO / IHME%Workplace Burnout
Share of workers reporting frequent burnout symptoms.
Gallup State of the Global Workplace%Suicide Rate
Suicides per 100,000 population per year.
World Bank / WHOper 100KLife Expectancy
Average life expectancy at birth (years). Shorter life expectancy reflects accumulated public-health, mental-health, and lifestyle stresses.
World BankyearsChild Mortality (Under-5)
Deaths of children under five years per 1,000 live births. A composite signal of healthcare access, maternal health, nutrition, and socioeconomic conditions.
World Bank / UNICEFper 1,000Alcohol Consumption
Total recorded alcohol consumption per capita (liters of pure alcohol) among the population aged 15+. A coping-mechanism proxy and major contributor to disease burden, family stress, and mortality.
World Bank / WHO Global Health Observatoryliters/yearLife Satisfaction
Average self-reported life satisfaction on a 0-10 ladder (Cantril ladder). The most-tracked subjective wellbeing metric in cross-country comparison. Nordic countries top the rankings (7.4-7.5); South Africa and Türkiye sit near the bottom (4.9-5.7).
OECD Better Life Index 20240-10 scale
Daily Screen Time
Average hours of screen time per adult per day.
DataReportal Digital Reporthours/dayDigital Addiction
Share of adults reporting problematic device use.
Pew Research / Eurostat ICT%Automation Exposure
Share of work activities potentially automatable by 2030 (McKinsey Generative AI estimates). Higher = more labour-displacement pressure from AI and automation. Service-heavy economies face higher exposure than agrarian ones.
McKinsey Global Institute 2023%
Temperature Anomaly
Annual mean temperature deviation from the 1951-1980 baseline.
NASA GISS GISTEMP°CWater Stress
Ratio of total water withdrawals to renewable water supply.
WRI Aqueduct%Air Pollution (PM2.5)
Mean annual fine particulate matter concentration.
WHO Ambient Air Quality DBµg/m³CO₂ Emissions per Capita
Annual CO₂ emissions per person (metric tons). Tracks the country's climate footprint and dependence on fossil fuels.
World Banktonnes/personRenewable Energy Share
Renewable energy consumption as a share of total final energy consumption. Higher = greener transition; lower = continued fossil-fuel dependence.
World Bank%
What we don't measure — yet.
Tried, didn't make the bar. We keep this list public so articles never reference a metric the catalog can't back up.
- AI Job AnxietyComputed from social-feed sentiment. Produced one global value (≈79.8) applied to every country — no per-country discriminating power. Disabled in our internal audit (migration 022). Will re-enable when we have a real per-country sentiment source.
- Civil unrest eventsACLED/GDELT integrations were prototyped early on but the normalization story (one protest ≠ one protest across contexts) never converged. The Social meta-index currently relies on homicide rate, suicide rate, and trust in institutions instead — fewer signals, cleaner attribution.
- Per-country temperature trend (live)NASA GISS gives one global anomaly; that's not per-country signal. We currently seed from Berkeley Earth's 2024 per-country dataset (refreshed annually). Switching to a truly live per-country temperature API is on the list.
Read the full audit trail and per-source health in Transparency.