Switzerland
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| Switzerland | |
 Flag of Switzerland | |
| Population (In Millions) | 7.91 |
| Human Development Index | 11/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 659.31 |
| Global Peace Index | 16/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 52/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | - /86 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 2/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 4 |
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The Swiss Federal Statistical Office has been working on a set of indicators called Quality of Life which includes indicators on social and economic aspects of life. The set measures life satisfaction, work burden, economic situation, social participation and leisure. The long-term objective is to provide a comprehensive system of indicators covering both societal and individual well-being.
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Main Initiatives
Monet
In order to monitor sustainable development, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), the Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE) and the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) developed the indicator system MONET. It aims to provide international comparisons on the social, economic and environmental situations and trends. The simplified form of this system consists of 17 indicators. Drawing on more than 100 indicators, this monitoring tool permits regular reporting on the status and progress of sustainable development in Switzerland.
Foundation Charles Léopold Mayer
The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress (formerly Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme, hence the acronym FPH) is an independent foundation under Swiss law. The Foundation defines itself as a human adventure developed over the long term with public and private partners on the various continents.
Poverty-wellbeing.net
Established in 2008 by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland. This platform provides resources on the following themes: Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches, Pro Poor Policy, Empowerment, and Focus on Poverty
Foundation du Devenir
Dedicated to the promotion of quality of life in respect of authorities, communities, citizens and businesses, the FdD has provided since 1995 a range of activities to facilitate the implementation of this notion.
Official Statistics
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Happiness in Switzerland
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Switzerland.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Switzerland [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.
Suisse (French)
Le Bureau fédéral Suisse de statistique a travaillé sur un ensemble d’indicateurs appelés « Qualité de Vie », qui comporte des indicateurs concernant les aspects sociaux-économiques de la vie. L’ensemble mesure la satisfaction de vie, le poids du travail, la situation économique , la participation sociale ainsi que les loisirs. L’ objectif à long terme est de fournir un système global d’ indicateurs s’ intéressant aussi bien à l’aspect individuel que sociétal du bien-être . Afin de contrôler le développement durable, le Bureau fédéral suisse de statistique (SFSO), le Bureau national du développement spatial (ARE), ainsi que le Bureau fédéral pour l’Envirinnement (FOEN) ont mis au point le système d’indicateurs MONET. Il vise à fournir des comparaisons internationales relatives aux situations et aux tendances sociales, économiques et environnementales. La forme simplifiée de ce système consiste en 17 indicateurs. Reposant sur plus de 100 indicateurs, cet outil de contrôle permet le report régulier de l’état ainsi que du progrès du développement durable en Suisse. Le Conseil fédéral suisse et le Parlement suisse utilisent ce système d’indicateurs comme une aide dans le processus de prises de décisions polititiques.
Progress Papers and Publications
Sustainable Development Strategy 2012-2015
European Papers on the New Welfare: The Counter-Ageing Society, 2005, The Risk Institute, Switzerland. "Society is getting older" how often have we heard this statement! But it is mistaken. The lengthening of the life cycle, involving better physical and mental conditions in most cases, introduces us to a counter-ageing society, where the older generations are clearly "younger" than they have been in the past (in Italian this is called the process of "svecchiamento"). The rest of the developing world, where the generations of those under 30 and 20 years of age are still dominant, will soon (in two or three decades) achieve the demographic structure of the industrialized countries.
Science et technologie en Suisse, bilan de la dernière décennie, 1990-2000/2001, 2002, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), Switzerland.
