- Value [1] Happy, Healthy Lives
- Most measures of national progress are actually just measures of economic activity; how much we are producing or consuming.
By only using indicators like GDP to measure success we are not accounting for what really matters, producing happy lives
people now and in the future. The HPI puts current and future well-being at the heart of measurement. It frames the development
of each country in the context of real environmental limits. In doing so it tells us what we instinctively know to be true
- that progress is not just about wealth. It shows that while the challenges faced by rich resource-intensive nations and
those with high levels of poverty and deprivation may be very different, the end goal is the same: to produce happy, healthy
lives now and in the future. The HPI demonstrates that the dominant Western model of development is not sustainable and we
need to find other development paths towards sustainable well-being.
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