Learn
The Happy Planet Index reveals the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered
The index combines environmental impact with human well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which, country by country, people live long and happy lives. Learn about the ideas behind the HPI, how it is calculated, why we need it and what it can teach us.
Explore
Examine overall HPI scores across the globe and discover how scores have changed over time
Improved data for 143 countries around the world, representing 99 per cent of the world’s population, has been used to compile HPI 2.0. Explore the results of the global index, as well as the index for Europe, and look at how scores for OECD nations have changed over time.
Engage
Sign up to support the Happy Planet Charter, calculate your own HPI score and add your ideas
Join the broad range of organisations and individuals showing their support for happy planet living by signing up for the new Happy Planet Charter. Take the online survey to produce your own HPI score and add your ideas to help create true sustainable well-being worldwide.
Join the national debate
The UK government has recently committed to regularly measuring well-being. Go to the National Accounts of Well-being website to see our proposals for how it could be done.
Sign the Happy Planet Charter
The Happy Planet Charter sets out the principles and targets we need to achieve sustainable well-being.
Download report
Read the new report, presenting the results from the second global compilation of the Happy Planet Index.
Charter Supporters
Recent News
What will Cameron do with all that well-being?
The Office of National Statistics will be measuring well-being across the UK in an unprecedented way. But what will the government actually do with the data? And what will it mean in terms of good lives that don’t cost the Earth
The world according to HPI
Ever wondered what the world would look like if countries were scaled according to their HPI? Some people from the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield did, and have come up with this map.
HPI in Time Magazine
Yet another article about the HPI this weekend, in Time magazine.
