Shared knowledge, universal communication and collective coordination
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Explore meaning, creativity, architecture and community. These contextual measures do not change the existing index scores.
Belief, reflection and coexistence. Survey responses describe experiences; they do not rank spiritual worth.
United Kingdom · adults aged 16+
April 2022–March 2023
Average rating for feeling that the things people do in life are worthwhile.
A historical self-reported average, not a global measure or a rating of spiritual attainment.
Office for National Statistics ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
United States · adults
July 2023–March 2024
Pew reports that 23% meditate for spiritual reasons at least weekly; a further 7% do so monthly.
Question wording is specific to spiritual reasons. This is not a measure of all meditation or evidence of health benefits.
Pew Research Center ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
World Values Survey · participating countries
Wave 7 · 2017–2022
The survey includes a question about trust in people of another religion.
No pooled global percentage has been verified here. Country surveys have different fieldwork dates; inspect the questionnaire and country data.
World Values Survey ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
Music, literature, creative practice and opportunities to participate.
United States · adults
July 2021–July 2022
NEA reports that more than half of adults created or performed art during the survey period.
Participation does not measure artistic quality; the observation period overlaps the pandemic.
National Endowment for the Arts ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
United States · adults
July 2021–July 2022
Adults reporting arts lessons during the period, according to NEA’s state-level participation report.
Adult participation is not the share of schools offering arts education or a measure of teaching quality.
National Endowment for the Arts ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
UNESCO Culture|2030 framework
Framework · 2019
UNESCO’s framework includes cultural facilities and cultural participation as areas for measurement.
A measurement framework is not an observed access rate. No comparable global figure is published here; counts alone do not show affordability or accessibility.
UNESCO ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
How homes and neighbourhoods support everyday life.
OECD average
2022
Households had, on average, 79% of disposable income left after housing rents and maintenance costs.
This average masks income and country differences. It is not the percentage of households with affordable housing.
OECD · How’s Life? 2024 ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
Global · buildings
Past decade · UNEP 2025–2026 report
UNEP reports a reduction in building energy intensity over the past decade.
Energy intensity relates energy use to building size. A decline does not establish a decline in total energy use or emissions; this is a report-period comparison, not a live rate.
UNEP / GlobalABC ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
Sample of 414 cities · 126 countries
2025
UN SDG reporting gives 45.9% for population access to open public spaces in the sampled cities, compared with 48.0% in 2020.
This is a sampled-city result, not a census of all urban residents; access alone does not establish safety or quality.
United Nations · SDG 11 ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
Learning, preservation and the connections people rely on.
Countries reporting comparable expenditure
2024 compared with 2021
UNESCO reports that 57% of countries reported increased heritage investment over this interval.
The denominator is reporting countries, not all countries. Spending does not establish conservation success. The 2026 release provides 2024 or latest-available national data.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
Global · end of primary education
Historical estimate · cited in 2026 reporting
UNESCO cites an estimate that 58% of students reach minimum reading proficiency at the end of primary education.
UNESCO explicitly says this global estimate has not been updated since COVID-19. It must not be read as a 2026 observation.
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
OECD country average
2022–2023
Respondents reporting friends or family they can rely on when needed, as reported by OECD.
A self-reported country average is not a worldwide population share, and does not measure the adequacy of every support relationship.
OECD · Social Connections and Loneliness ↗Reviewed 2026-11-02 · Source publication and observation dates may differ.
Survey findings describe reported experiences. Spirituality and cultural preferences have no automatic “better” direction. Values retain their observation periods; source reviews do not turn them into live counters.
Explore planetary boundaries, renewable energy, mineral supply, forest change and species conservation, with source dates and scope.
Open resources dashboard ↗This near-term path is shared with the corresponding Cooperative track.
Level 2: poverty < 5%; 90% online; 40-language earbud translation
Poverty is now concentrated in fragile and conflict-affected states — the last stretch is a Peace problem
If African growth disappoints, poverty stalls at 7–8% and the score rises on access alone
ITU penetration in low-income countries; World Bank poverty count; languages supported on device
These are the available measures in the supplied dataset; they may be proxies for the leading indicators above.
A scenario from the supplied handoff, not a prediction or professional advice.
A number from a named source. Check when, where and what it measures.
A way to compare things using chosen rules. Different rules can give different scores.
Something we hope to achieve, or imagine might happen. It is not a measured fact.