The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the Earth

Download the new report The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the Earth, first published in July 2009. The report presents the results of the second global compilation of the Happy Planet Index, based on improved data for 143 countries around the world – representing 99 per cent of the world’s population. The results shows that globally we are still far from achieving good lives within the Earth’s finite resource limits. But although the evidence shows that we are heading in the wrong direction, the achievements of some countries around the world provide reasons to believe that we can achieve true sustainable well-being.

Note that this pdf corrects an error on p54 of the printed report where the Greek characters alpha and beta failed to print.
Download data
You can also download the complete data file containing overall scores for HPI 2.0, as well as component results and HPI data over time for selected countries:
hpi-2-0-results.xls (340.5 KB)
Previous reports
You can also download our previously published HPI reports.
The European (un)Happy Planet Index: An index of carbon efficiency and well-being in the EU Published 2007:
european-happy-planet-index.pdf (0.9 MB)
The (un)Happy Planet Index: An index of human well-being and environmental impact
Published 2006:
happy-planet-index-first-global.pdf (1.6 MB)