Global indices have proliferated in recent years, offering citizens, academics, and policymakers ways to measure change in the world. Conflict, corruption, gender discrimination, human rights, happiness, peace, and other phenomena were once thought too difficult to assess by statistical means. However, over the past few decades universities, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and multilateral institutions have developed data-driven assessments for these abstract ideas. These indices give us approximations of where goals have been achieved and where more work needs to be done.

In this updated 2016 edition of the International Peace Institute’s Catalogue of Indices, we have expanded our coverage to over 200 indices and indicators, categorized into nine themes listed in the menu below. A new theme on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals has been included, as well as new indices on internal security and police, diplomacy, environmental governance, slavery, religiosity, partnerships, youth, refugees, migration, and internet freedom. Further, 25 indicators on the current status of women in the world on themes including education, violence, and participation in decision-making have been included.

Each index is accompanied by an interactive map, summary, score range, sortable data table, historical heatmap, and bar chart of the latest year’s data; as well as links to primary data, methodologies, and reports.



