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The 2026 Global Social Progress Index is LIVE! 🎉
It measures 57 outcome indicators, such as safety, housing, health, & rights.
The 🌎 is at a turning point, where the steady improvement in quality of life of recent decades may be going into reverse. 👇
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The United States beats Paraguay in social progress. Will this be the case in today's game?
The Social Progress Tournament is a new interactive tool that allows you to evaluate the quality of life of the competing countries in the World Cup.
socialprogress.org/worldcup
Canada vs Bosnia and Herzegovina ⚽️
The Social Progress Tournament is a new interactive tool that allows you to evaluate the quality of life and societal wellbeing of the competing countries in the 2026 World Cup.
socialprogress.org/worldcup
Can winning the World Cup give you a social progress boost or, vice versa, can social progress win you the World Cup?
We analyze:
Brazil in 2002
Italy in 2006
Spain in 2010
Germany in 2014
France in 2018
Argentina in 2022
New episode out now!
youtu.be/5IkT_sL71x0
Mexico vs South Africa! Who is the winner in terms of social progress?
Explore the results of your country socialprogress.org/worldcup
The Social Progress Tournament is an interactive tool that evaluates the quality of life of the competing countries in the 2026 #WorldCup
We are excited to share part one of the Social Progress Guide to the World Cup! 🏆
We put our 2026 host nations, Mexico 🇲🇽 , Canada 🇨🇦 , and the United States 🇺🇸 , to the test.
The results might completely surprise you!
📽️ Watch now: youtu.be/MZcR20TEPbk?si=UDGd…
The Social Progress Tournament is a new interactive tool that allows you to evaluate the quality of life and societal wellbeing of the competing countries in the 2026 World Cup.
Discover who would be the winner in terms of social progress.
socialprogress.org/worldcup
Peru's performance in the Social Progress Index 🇵🇪
Economic growth will no longer be sufficient without improved public policies and greater institutional efficiency, says @jaimegarciag
See your country's results at socialprogress.org/social-pr…
Peru fell to 84th place in the Global Social Progress Index.
📉It's the worst historical position of the nation, dropping 16 places in 5 years.
🇵🇪Peru ranks 129/171 countries in safety, becoming one of the main obstacles to the country.
Full article at elmacheteperu.com/2026/05/29…
How governments should really allocate resources to advance social progress.
Listen now to @shepleygreen and Dominic Channer from @kinrossgold in Beyond GDP: The Social Progress Podcast!
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Kinross Gold’s Dominic Channer, Vice-President, Community Relations and Sustainability, sat down with Michael Green, CEO of the Social Progress Imperative, to discuss the role of business in sustainable communities and how Kinross builds trust through early engagement, formal agreements and tailored strategies.
Dominic also discusses Kinross’ commitment to building local partnerships to advance social progress through all stages of the mine life to build long-term positive impacts.
Check out the podcast below!
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Never underestimate the power of trust between your stakeholders and the company. Learn about responsible mining and how @kinrossgold builds trust through early engagement and strategies that protect traditional livelihoods.
Listen now! socialprogress.org/beyond-gd…
Why should a business care about sustainability and corporate social responsibility? Dominic Channer, VP of Community Relations at @kinrossgold and @shepleygreen explore this in our latest episode of Beyond GDP: The Social Progress Podcast.
Full episode: socialprogress.org/beyond-gd…
Never underestimate the power of trust between your stakeholders and the company. Learn about responsible mining and how @kinrossgold builds trust through early engagement and strategies that protect traditional livelihoods.
Listen now! socialprogress.org/beyond-gd…
These are the countries that are underperforming relative to their GDP per capita in education.
The latest Global Social Progress Index shows how some nations are dropping the ball on basic education.
Full analysis at youtu.be/41NypZXjnqg
Happy Independence day to the Kingdom of #Jordan - one of the most successful countries in the world at turning GDP into social progress.
Data from @socprogress here:
socialprogress.org/social-pr…
Building schools was the easy part. The real battle for the future is to solve the structural barriers within them.
This is how the world performs in terms of education from 2011 to 2025, according to the Global Social Progress Index
Full analysis at youtu.be/41NypZXjnqg
The ultimate measure of a society is how it prepares its children for the world. We used the 2026 Global Social Progress Index to find which countries are the best at educating their children.
Full analysis at youtu.be/41NypZXjnqg#education#globaltrends#SDGs
Overall, the world has seen improving education outcomes over the last 15 years, but at a slow pace.
In part, this is because the easy wins of getting more kids into school have been used up, and now enrolment is a last-mile problem.
But there has been more rapid progress on...
✅ gender equity in education and, until recently, on secondary school attainment.
📉 Equality of access, however, seems to be on the decline.
But which country is best at educating its kids? 🌎 youtube.com/watch?v=41NypZXj…