Methodology

The 2022 Global Impact Index (GII) provides a data-driven summary of the state of social and environmental impact around the world. Using 50 performance indicators across 10 issue categories, the GII ranks 168 countries on climate change and environmental performance, education and workforce outcomes and health and wellbeing. These indicators provide a gauge at a national scale of xxx. The GII offers a scorecard that highlights leaders and laggards in social and environmental performance and provides practical guidance for countries that aspire to move toward a more inclusive and sustainable future.

GII indicators provide a way to spot problems, set targets, track trends, understand outcomes, and identify best policy practices. Good data and fact-based analysis can also help government officials refine their policy agendas, facilitate communications with key stakeholders, and maximize the return on social and environmental investments. The GII offers a powerful policy tool in support of efforts to meet the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to move society toward a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Overall GII rankings indicate which countries are best addressing the social and environmental challenges that every nation faces. Going beyond the aggregate scores and drilling down into the data to analyze performance by issue category, policy objective, peer group, and country offers even greater value for policymakers. This granular view and comparative perspective can assist in understanding the determinants of social and environmental progress and in refining policy choices.

The GII is an open-source project under Creative Commons 4.0 and the initiating prototype was funded exclusively by HolonIQ.

Looked at lots of indices including WEF, IMD etc. World Bank, UN Rankings, OECD and others.

Prototype includes a preliminary selection of five indicators per factor, providing a total of 50 equally weighted indicators across the Index.

A score between 0 and 100 is calculated for every nation for each indicator. A number of approaches have been evaluated including percentile scores. The prototype scales raw values where 0 is the minimum value and 100 is the maximum value for the set of countries considered in each indicator. The preserves the relative comparability whilst maintaining simplicity and ease of interpretation.

All 50 indicators are weighted equally to calculate category, dimension and index scores. As the selection of indicators improves over time, further consideration will be given to weighting different indicators.

Country ranks are assigned based on category, dimension and index scores.

Areas for improvement

• Dimension and Factor Review. Aligned with the purpose of the Index
• Indicator Selection. XX
• Scoring Methodology
• Weightings
• Interpretation and Visualization

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