Provides an overview of the country's progress in tackling key economic, social and environmental issues.
The 68 indicators it contains – covering a wide range of topics of everyday concern such as health, housing, jobs, crime, education, and our environment – all affect whether we can live more sustainably in the future. For the first time this edition includes some provisional measures of wellbeing which show how satisfied people are with their lives.
Individually these "sustainable development" indicators highlight those issues for which recent and longer-term change has been for the better or for the worse.