Measuring how nations thrive and people flourish
About the Legatum Prosperity Index
The Legatum Prosperity Index is a tool for transformation. First published in 2007, it offers a unique insight into how prosperity is evolving across the world.
Leaders around the world can use it to help set their agendas for growth and development, while enabling others to hold them to account. Researchers can use it to identify global trends. Citizens and community leaders can use it to advance prosperity where they live.
A broader understanding of prosperity
Prosperity is far more than wealth. While material resources matter, a nation truly prospers when its people have the opportunity to flourish in every aspect of life. The Legatum Prosperity Index measures this broader understanding of prosperity, recognising that economic success alone is not enough. Prosperous societies combine economic development with freedom and strong social foundations, creating the conditions in which individuals, families, and communities can thrive.
Leaders around the world can use it to help set their agendas for growth and development, while enabling others to hold them to account. Researchers can use it to identify global trends. Citizens and community leaders can use it to advance prosperity where they live.
To capture this, the Prosperity Index focuses on three fundamental questions: how developed is a country, how free are its people, and how strong is its social fabric? Together, these domains capture the foundations of national prosperity. By bringing together rigorous data analytics across these dimensions, the Index provides a clear picture of where countries are succeeding, where they are falling short, and what matters most for building societies in which people can live fulfilling and flourishing lives.
Using 160 indicators and over 615,877 data points, the Prosperity Index is the world's broadest multidimensional measure of prosperity across the globe.
To find out more about the Index, read our latest Summary Report, our Methodology and browse our results using the Rankings Table and the interactive data tool on every Country Profile page.
Who brings the Index to life
Legatum
Legatum is a global investment and philanthropic firm with the mission of generating and allocating the capital and ideas to help people lead more prosperous lives.
Since its founding in 2006, Legatum has pursued this ambition by creating a diverse collection of ventures which have positively impacted the lives of over half a billion people so far. These ventures include humanitarian funds such as the END Fund, Luminos Fund, Freedom Fund, and Resilio Fund. Since founding the Institute in London over twenty years ago, Legatum has developed the Prosperity Index as a tool to support this same mission: providing people across the world with the tools to flourish.
The Prosperity Institute
The Prosperity Institute is committed to advancing and protecting the principles and ideas that create national prosperity. By conducting world-class research and convening leading minds, the Institute seeks to understand the ways that have worked in the past, applying ancient wisdom to modern challenges, translating sound principles into better institutions and policies. It also offers education for courageous and values-driven leaders of tomorrow by reviving the philosophies and teachings which underpin prosperity.
Based in London, the Institute seeks to restore the United Kingdom as one of the world's most prosperous, innovative and inspiring democratic countries. In addition, it also has a global outlook, aiming to promote the flourishing of people in all nations across the world. The Legatum Prosperity Index is the principal resource the Institute provides to further this mission.
