Youth Progress Index 2025
This fourth edition of the YPI is the largest source of youth relevant data globally. It analyses trends across 3 billion young people and 169 countries, using more than 60 social and environmental indicators. Uniquely, the report applies a rights-based approach to these quantitative indicators, showing the extent to which youth rights are enjoyed globally, and showcasing areas which need urgent political commitment and change.
Across every continent, young people are fighting for the recognition of their rights. Our new data from the fourth edition of the Youth Progress Index (YPI), clearly shows how young people’s rights are being routinely overlooked or violated, and that progress is stagnating or regressing in many areas: From shrinking civic space and unaffordable housing to unequal access to education, health, and justice, they lack the necessary conditions that can empower them to fully enjoy their rights.
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curious how Youth Progress is measured?
The Youth Progress Index (YPI) measures factors that matter to and can impact the daily lives of young people, using the Social Progress Index methodology. Do young people have sufficient food to eat? Do they have access to housing, the labour market and quality jobs? Can they read and write? Can they exercise their socio-economic and political rights? Do they live in a community where they feel included and are not discriminated against? Is their future and the future of their children protected from the dangers of environmental destruction? Can they influence politics and hold their political representatives to account, and are they represented in parliament? Do they have the opportunities to live up to their potential, contribute to thriving societies, and shape their future?
The Youth Progress Index 2025 combines 61 social and environmental outcome indicators, and it covers a time series of 14 years (2011-2024). The Index fully ranks 169 countries, and it also partially covers additional 27 countries, providing component and dimension scores when enough data are available. In all, the Youth Progress Index measures at least some aspects of youth progress across more than 99.9% of the world’s young population.
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Youth Progress Index 2025: Youth Rights and Progress in the Eastern Partnership
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Youth Progress Index 2023
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Youth Progress Index 2023: Exploring Social Factors in Youth Mental Wellbeing
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