2020 Legatum Prosperity Index™
The Legatum Prosperity Index™ has been designed to be a transformational tool to help enable targeted policy responses that can drive tangible improvements in prosperity.
The Legatum Prosperity Index™ has been designed to be a transformational tool to help enable targeted policy responses that can drive tangible improvements in prosperity.
A report for the Legatum Prosperity Index programme by Dr Stephen Brien
Published 16 Nov 2020
The 14th edition of the Legatum Prosperity Index™
The Legatum Prosperity Index™ analyses the performance of 167 nations across 66 policy-focused elements, measured by almost 300 country-level indicators. The Index enables us to construct a thoroughly comprehensive picture of prosperity, across its institutional, economic, and social dimensions. It is our ambition that leaders around the world will use the Index to help set their agendas for growth and development, and that it will enable others to hold them to account.
The indicators used in the Index are organised into 12 pillars which are grouped into three domains essential to prosperity:
Using the Prosperity Index framework, nations around the world can assess their strengths and weaknesses in order to determine the economic and strategic choices that need to be made to drive greater levels of prosperity.
Key Findings
The Index shows that, overall, Denmark is the most prosperous country in the world, followed by Norway and Switzerland. North America remains the most prosperous region, followed by Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
Of the 167 countries included in this year’s Index, 147 have seen an improvement in their prosperity since 2010.
To read more about prosperity globally and explore the rankings for individual countries and regions, read the 2020 report or visit prosperity.com.
The 14th edition of the Legatum Prosperity Index™
Nov 2020