Resources
Well-being in Sustainable Economies Revisited Dashboard
How is your region doing?
“And they lived happily ever after.” This familiar ending captures something most people ultimately want: a long and happy life. The WISER dashboard takes this ambition as its starting point. Its central outcome indicator, happy life years, combines life expectancy with how positively people evaluate their lives. It asks whether better living conditions translate into longer, happier lives.
The dashboard looks beyond economic growth to compare wellbeing across European regions, show how it has changed over time, and explore the conditions that support a good life. Use these insights to understand how your region is doing and identify where improvements are needed.
Gross National Happiness index
The Gross National Happiness index is the brainchild of Professor Talita Greyling of the University of Johannesburg and Prof Stephanie Rossouw of the Auckland University of Technology, with the technical support of AFSTEREO (Pty) Ltd. It is the first index of its kind and measures the real-time sentiment of a country. The happiness index is constructed by using information-seeking query data extracted using Google Trends™.