New ‘Sustainability Index’ Alters World Order – U.S. Ranks Low

The UN’s Human Development Index (HDI) is an international “score card” which ascribes each national
measured a single number (or ranking) that is an average of multiple metrics reflecting national policies and societal conditions such as education rate, employment, social security, life expectancy, literacy, gender equality, cultural development, innovation, economic mobility, etc.

Sustainability Score Turns World Order Upside Down

The United Nations Human Development Index is the world’s all-purpose national scorecard, a single number that represents a country’s success at providing a decent life for its people. But according to a Mongolian ecologist who feels his own country has been led astray, it’s time to update the HDI with a critically missing component: sustainability.