Finland
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| Finland | |
 Flag of Finland | |
| Population (In Millions) | NA |
| Human Development Index | 22/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 238.04 |
| Global Peace Index | 7/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 59/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | - /102 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 12/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 2.4 |
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UNDP Human Development Trends-2011
The Human Development Index represents a push for a broader definition of well-being and provides a composite measure of three basic dimensions of human development: health, education and income. According to the United Nations Development Programme's 2011 Human Development Reports, Finland's HDI is 0.882, which gives the country a rank of 22 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI of OECD as a region increased from 0.749 in 1980 to 0.873 today, placing Finland above the regional average [1]
Finland's HDI is broken down as follow:
- Health: 0.946
- Education: 0.877
- Income: 0.828[2]
Main Progress Initiatives
Findicator
Findicator is a set of indicators for social progress with around 100 indicators for social progress. These indicators are grouped thematically and by policy issue as per the Government Programme; each indicator provides up-to-date information via tables, graphs and written analysis with links to larger information sources, metadata and international reference data.
The Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development (FNCSD)
The FNCSD was established in 1993 and its ultimate objective is to make sustainable development part of national policies and administrative practices.
Monitoring biodiversity
Monitoring biodiversity was established in 2008 by the Ministry of the Environment, Finland. Biodiversity monitoring projects aim to collect data about ongoing changes in ecosystems, species and gene pools. The focus may be on the abundance and distribution of specific subject species, populations or communities, or other factors related to their status.
Finland's national strategy for sustainable development
The National Strategy for Sustainable development "Towards sustainable choices. A nationally and globally sustainable Finland" was adopted in June 2006 by the Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development and adopted in December 2010 by the Council of State. The starting point of the strategy was to combine the sustainable use, management and protection of natural capital with citizens' well-being as well as to ensure the integrity of the society so that the result would be a competent Finland that utilizes its strengths in a sustainable manner.
Measurement of Well-being
The project “New dimensions for the measurement of well-being” examines the possibility of formulating a comprehensive well-being matrix which includes indicators reflecting people’s personal well-being and the state of the environment. In addition, the project aims to put forward proposals for integrating more comprehensive perspectives on well-being into public discussion and political decision-making. The project is carried out under the responsibility of the policy analysis unit at the Prime Minister’s Office.
Official Statistics
Happiness in Finland
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Finland.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Finland [1]. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
Progress Papers and Publications
- Finland's Natural Resources and the Environment 2005 Review, 2005, Finnish Ministry of the Environment and Statistics Finland, Finland.
- Did we finally get it right? A practical approach to increase and improve the use of indicators in Finland
- Towards sustainable choices. A nationally and globally sustainable Finland
References
- ↑ United Nations Development Programme.2011 Human Development Report.Finland.http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/FIN.html
- ↑ 2011 Human Development Report
