Quality of Life
Are people's economic and social rights being met?
These scores measure how well a country is using its resources to ensure people's economic and social rights are fulfilled.
Showing scores for 88 countries
Using the low and middle income assessment standard
2020
Score
0
% of income adjusted benchmark achieved
HRMI score
100%
Source: HRMI 2023 rightstracker.org
* High income country: For these countries it is best to use the high income assessment standard. To change the performance benchmark or assessment standard, please click on ‘Switch view’ above
FAQs
A collection of 5 economic and social rights.
Primary school enrolment
Total net primary school enrolment rate
Source(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Secondary school enrolment
Total net upper secondary school enrolment rate
Source(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income, High income
Quality of education (general)
Average harmonized score on international student achievement test
Source(s): The World Bank (WB), The Human Capital Project
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Maths
% students scoring level 3 or better on PISA mathematics test
Source(s): Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education data
Assessment standard(s): High income
Reading
% students scoring level 3 or better on PISA reading test
Source(s): Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education data
Assessment standard(s): High income
Science
% students scoring level 3 or better on PISA science test
Source(s): Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education data
Assessment standard(s): High income
Children (under 5) not stunted
% children (under 5) NOT Stunted (100 – child malnutrition prevalence-height for age)
Source(s): UNICEF-WHO-World Bank: Joint child malnutrition (JME) data base
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Food security
% population NOT moderately or severely food insecure based on the Food Insecurity Experience global reference scale.
Source(s): Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAOSTAT
Assessment standard(s): High income
Children surviving to age 5
Child (under 5) % survival rate (100 – % child mortality rate)
Source(s): United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income, High income
Adult (15-60) survival
Adult (15-60) % survival rate. (100 – % adult mortality rate)
Source(s): UNPD and Max Planck Institute Human Mortality Database
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Adult (age 60-80) survival rate
Percentage of 60-year-old people surviving to their 80th birthday.
Source(s): UNPD and Max Planck Institute Human Mortality Database
Assessment standard(s): High income
Modern contraceptive use rate
Modern contraceptive use prevalence rate (% women 15-49)
Source(s): United Nations Population Division (UNPD)
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Not low birth weight
% babies NOT low birth weight (% live births weighing > 2500 grams)
Source(s): Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Bank World Development Indicators
Assessment standard(s): High income
Access to water on premises
% population with 'basic' drinking water service on premises
Source(s): WHO UNICEF Joint Monitoring Project (JMP)
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Access to at least basic sanitation
% population with at least 'basic' sanitation facilities
Source(s): WHO UNICEF Joint Monitoring Project (JMP)
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Affordable Housing
% of poorest income quintile with access to affordable housing
Source(s): Eurostats
Assessment standard(s): High income
Access to safely managed sanitation
% population with 'safely managed' sanitation
Source(s): WHO UNICEF Joint Monitoring Project (JMP)
Assessment standard(s): High income
Not relatively poor
% population NOT relatively poor (income > 50% median income)
Source(s): Luxembourg Income Study, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Assessment standard(s): High income
Not absolutely poor
% population NOT absolutely poor (income > $3.65 2017 PPP$ per day)
Source(s): World Bank PovcalNet
Assessment standard(s): Low and middle income
Not long-term unemployed
% unemployed NOT long-term (>12 months) unemployed
Source(s): Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Unemployment data
Assessment standard(s): High income
The Quality of Life score is the average of the country's 5 economic and social rights scores: the rights to food, education, health, housing and work.
For the Quality of Life rights (economic and social rights), HRMI measures countries against 2 different benchmarks. You can change benchmarks by clicking the 'Switch view' button
Income adjusted: How well is the country doing compared to what we know is possible at that country's income level? Every country can achieve 100% against this benchmark if they use their available resources effectively, so any lower score tells us that improvement is needed, and is possible.
Global best: How well is the country doing compared to the rest of the world, including the wealthiest countries?
For the Quality of Life rights (economic and social rights) we have two assessment standards - two collections of indicators we use to measure the rights.
Low and middle income: Uses statistical indicators that are available for most countries in the world, particularly low and middle income countries.
High income: Uses some indicators that are primarily available for high income countries, and better reflect the human rights challenges of high income countries.