SPI Brazil

Brazil needs a new measure that evaluates and quantifies what really matters to people, going beyond the economic context - after all, economic development does not necessarily represent social development. The Social Progress Index Brazil, developed using the Social Progress Imperative methodology, was created to meet this need. It is a territorial management tool based on public data, which identifies and presents, on the same scale, whether people have what they need to prosper, from basic needs such as shelter, food and security, to whether they have access to information and communication, and whether they are treated equally, regardless of gender, race or orientation.

SPI Brazil is the most complete index of the socio-environmental reality of all 5,570 municipalities in the country. The index provides a multidimensional and accessible overview of the performance of municipalities and states in meeting the basic needs of their citizens.

SPI Brazil 2024 is based on 53 secondary indicators from public sources that are exclusively social, environmental and measure results, not investments. These variables have been aggregated into a general index, with a score from 0 to 100, and indexes for 3 dimensions (Basic Needs, Fundamentals of Wellbeing and Opportunity) and 12 components (Nutrition & Medical Care, Water & Sanitation, Housing, Safety, Basic Education, Information & Communications, Health, Environmental Quality, Rights & Voice, Freedom & Choice, Inclusive Society & Advanced Education).

Amazon SPI

The Amazon SPI was originally published in 2014 under the leadership of the Amazon Institute for Man and the Environment (Imazon). It was the first sub-national (state and municipality scale) initiative carried out in the world. Amazon SPI uses the same statistical method as the global SPI and answers the same key questions that exist in the SPI concept, but with one important difference: it adopts indicators that reflect the social reality of the region's territory, different from those used in the global SPI. In the case of the Legal Amazon Region, the Amazon SPI chose to evaluate the SPI for each of its 772 municipalities.

Global SPI

Since 2013, the Social Progress Imperative, a collaboration between Fundación Avina, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Business School, has published the Global SPI, which analyzes the performance of countries in terms of social progress. The calculation of this index, in its 2024 version, is based on 57 indicators from global surveys conducted by institutions such as Health Metrics and Evaluation, the UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs and the Gallup Poll. SPI Global provides data for 170 countries, offering crucial insights into social progress on an international scale.

In 2024, Brazil scored 68.90 on the Global SPI, ranking 67th out of 170 countries. In South America, Chile (78.43), Argentina (77.19) and Ecuador (69.56) were the countries with the best scores. In global terms, Denmark (90.30), Norway (90.32) and Finland (89.96) showed the best performance in social progress (Social Progress Imperative, 2024).