The Stories You Helped Us Tell: 2024 Recap and The Year Ahead

December 18, 2024

The Stories You Helped Us Tell 2024 Recap and The Year Ahead

This year, we reached communities in ways that seemed impossible a decade ago. In 2024 you helped us uncover hidden insights and stories that improved the wellbeing of thousands of communities. Each index helps us learn their stories in a unique way by identifying the obstacles holding them back. Here is a short compilation of the stories you helped us tell in 2024 and a sneak peek of 2025 to see how you can help put more communities on the map.

See your support in action

For the first time, all the premium tools are in one place. The new platform features premium data insights from your favorite tools like the Global Social Progress Index, Just Transition Score, the US Map and the Time Series Social Progress Index.

Now, our community can access user-friendly data visualizations with MORE data to empower their work.

With your support, we expanded the SPI to new territories and put more communities on the map! In collaboration with our partners, we updated data tools like the European Union Regional SPI and the SPI of the Mexican States (2015-2023), enabling our community to benchmark performance and identify trends and best practices.

We launched “This Week in Data,” a weekly newsletter with insights that became a crucial resource for social progress trends and inspired our readers on how data can translate into action. Haven’t subscribed yet? Sign up now!  

The Social Progress Index has proven its relevance to solving society’s most pressing challenges in different sectors. For instance, the SPI in Tourism for Costa Rica highlighted how tourism can contribute to community wellbeing. These insights resonated globally, and we presented the results at the UN Tourism Committee on Tourism and Sustainability, hoping that more communities would learn from their success.

Our partner, IPS Brasil, created the most extensive Social Progress Index at a subnational level for a country, covering 5,570 municipalities across the 26 Brazilian states. This extraordinary achievement excites us about what’s to come. Will your country be on our 2025 list? Help us bring the SPI to your community by becoming a partner.

Journalists used the data to inform their research and help tell stories based on evidence. Academics and our partners analyzed social progress results to contextualize issues, such as a country’s performance at the Olympic games, the Multidimensional Cross-Country Measurement of Climate Change Perceptions, Just Transition Score: Measuring the relative sustainability of social progress and SPI in the context of regional development at the district level in the Košice region.

In 2014, the Amazonia Social Progress Index marked the beginning of a new era in measuring social progress at the local level. A decade later, the Social Progress Imperative and our partners have created more than 150 subnational indexes, offering a more granular and actionable understanding of the true state of the world. Explore more success stories.

The 2024 index measured social progress for 170 countries, encompassing 13 years of data. In total, 61 countries saw a significant decline in their social progress in 2023 and 77 more stagnated. Only 32 countries saw any real progress. What can we do to accelerate progress? Stay tuned for our 2025 launch early next year to get fresh insights about the world’s current state!

Impera Analytics, the Social Progress Imperative’s UK partner, delivered customized data tools powered by the Social Progress Index to local authorities, citizens and leaders. Some great successes include the creation of the London Borough of Brent SPI and the Lichfield District SPI. 

Their success led them to build new products such as Place Insight, a Local Authority Area Social Progress Index useful for people interested in social investments. Impera's achievements were also recognized with the Linked Organisation of Local Authorities (LOLA) Award, honoring the Lichfield District SPI's significant role in improving local wellbeing.

The Shared Prosperity Map compares the social progress across all US and Mexican states, giving new insights into regional wellbeing and competitiveness. This is part of the North American Project, intending to build the most thriving region in the world.

There are more and more of us!

Our community grew this year! We noticed more people are interested in building thriving communities and prioritizing people’s wellbeing over profits. THANK YOU for being part of the largest community of advocates of social progress! 

Looking ahead of 2025. We have ambitious plans: 

If you can’t wait longer to learn what’s to come in 2025, here is a sneak peek! 

We’ll launch the 2025 Social Progress Index early in the year with a big announcement. Stay tuned to our social media channels. Sign up fo your premium access for deeper analysis of countries and regions. If you get it today, you’ll be the first to recieve the 2025 edition. 

We will also launch new versions of some tools like the Just Transition Score and the Youth Progress Index. And, of course, we’ll continue working with local and global partners in all regions. Keep an eye on your inbox as you’ll continue to receive short data stories to build a thriving world. (Sign up for This Week In Data if you haven’t already done so.) 

There is even more in store, but we’ll keep some surprises for later. 

Whether you donated, partnered with us or used our tools, you have helped tell the Social Progress story this year.

But the work isn’t done. Today, many communities around the world remain invisible, and their underlying needs go unaddressed. With your help, you can put these communities on the map. 

Donate today and help make a difference in communities around the world. 

The Stories You Helped Us Tell 2024 Recap and The Year Ahead

This year, we reached communities in ways that seemed impossible a decade ago. In 2024 you helped us uncover hidden insights and stories that improved the wellbeing of thousands of communities. Each index helps us learn their stories in a unique way by identifying the obstacles holding them back. Here is a short compilation of the stories you helped us tell in 2024 and a sneak peek of 2025 to see how you can help put more communities on the map.

See your support in action

For the first time, all the premium tools are in one place. The new platform features premium data insights from your favorite tools like the Global Social Progress Index, Just Transition Score, the US Map and the Time Series Social Progress Index.

Now, our community can access user-friendly data visualizations with MORE data to empower their work.

With your support, we expanded the SPI to new territories and put more communities on the map! In collaboration with our partners, we updated data tools like the European Union Regional SPI and the SPI of the Mexican States (2015-2023), enabling our community to benchmark performance and identify trends and best practices.

We launched “This Week in Data,” a weekly newsletter with insights that became a crucial resource for social progress trends and inspired our readers on how data can translate into action. Haven’t subscribed yet? Sign up now!  

The Social Progress Index has proven its relevance to solving society’s most pressing challenges in different sectors. For instance, the SPI in Tourism for Costa Rica highlighted how tourism can contribute to community wellbeing. These insights resonated globally, and we presented the results at the UN Tourism Committee on Tourism and Sustainability, hoping that more communities would learn from their success.

Our partner, IPS Brasil, created the most extensive Social Progress Index at a subnational level for a country, covering 5,570 municipalities across the 26 Brazilian states. This extraordinary achievement excites us about what’s to come. Will your country be on our 2025 list? Help us bring the SPI to your community by becoming a partner.

Journalists used the data to inform their research and help tell stories based on evidence. Academics and our partners analyzed social progress results to contextualize issues, such as a country’s performance at the Olympic games, the Multidimensional Cross-Country Measurement of Climate Change Perceptions, Just Transition Score: Measuring the relative sustainability of social progress and SPI in the context of regional development at the district level in the Košice region.

In 2014, the Amazonia Social Progress Index marked the beginning of a new era in measuring social progress at the local level. A decade later, the Social Progress Imperative and our partners have created more than 150 subnational indexes, offering a more granular and actionable understanding of the true state of the world. Explore more success stories.

The 2024 index measured social progress for 170 countries, encompassing 13 years of data. In total, 61 countries saw a significant decline in their social progress in 2023 and 77 more stagnated. Only 32 countries saw any real progress. What can we do to accelerate progress? Stay tuned for our 2025 launch early next year to get fresh insights about the world’s current state!

Impera Analytics, the Social Progress Imperative’s UK partner, delivered customized data tools powered by the Social Progress Index to local authorities, citizens and leaders. Some great successes include the creation of the London Borough of Brent SPI and the Lichfield District SPI. 

Their success led them to build new products such as Place Insight, a Local Authority Area Social Progress Index useful for people interested in social investments. Impera's achievements were also recognized with the Linked Organisation of Local Authorities (LOLA) Award, honoring the Lichfield District SPI's significant role in improving local wellbeing.

The Shared Prosperity Map compares the social progress across all US and Mexican states, giving new insights into regional wellbeing and competitiveness. This is part of the North American Project, intending to build the most thriving region in the world.

There are more and more of us!

Our community grew this year! We noticed more people are interested in building thriving communities and prioritizing people’s wellbeing over profits. THANK YOU for being part of the largest community of advocates of social progress! 

Looking ahead of 2025. We have ambitious plans: 

If you can’t wait longer to learn what’s to come in 2025, here is a sneak peek! 

We’ll launch the 2025 Social Progress Index early in the year with a big announcement. Stay tuned to our social media channels. Sign up fo your premium access for deeper analysis of countries and regions. If you get it today, you’ll be the first to recieve the 2025 edition. 

We will also launch new versions of some tools like the Just Transition Score and the Youth Progress Index. And, of course, we’ll continue working with local and global partners in all regions. Keep an eye on your inbox as you’ll continue to receive short data stories to build a thriving world. (Sign up for This Week In Data if you haven’t already done so.) 

There is even more in store, but we’ll keep some surprises for later. 

Whether you donated, partnered with us or used our tools, you have helped tell the Social Progress story this year.

But the work isn’t done. Today, many communities around the world remain invisible, and their underlying needs go unaddressed. With your help, you can put these communities on the map. 

Donate today and help make a difference in communities around the world.