Israel
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| Israel | |
 Flag of Israel | |
| Population (In Millions) | 7.77 |
| Human Development Index | 17/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 242.93 |
| Global Peace Index | 145/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 67/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | - /86 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 66/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 3.5 |
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Main Initiatives
Israel’s Progress Index
Israel's Progress Index ("Erech"), is the leading project of the Israeli Society for Sustainable Economics, and marks its development to national economic-environmental-social decision making. The goal of the project is to establish an index for progress and quality of life (QOL), and promote it as a central tool for decision making in Israel
Official Statistics
Happiness in Israel
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Israel.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Israel [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 in Israel
- Indicators for Sustainable Development in Israel, Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Central Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Environmental Protection-Policy and Planning Division, 2009.
- The Path toward Sustainable Development in Israel, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Israel, 2011
- Anat Itay (2009) Conceptions of progress: How is progress perceived? Mainstream versus alternative conceptions of progress. Social Indicators Research, 92, 529-550.
- Hagai Kot, (2008), A Genuine Progress Indicator for Israel: A Pilot Index: 1979-2004, Dissertation submitted at the London School of Economics and Political Science, (LSE).
