National Well-being

ONS is developing new measures of national well-being. The aim is to provide a fuller picture of how society is doing by supplementing existing economic, social and environmental measures.

Developing better measures of well-being is a long term programme. ONS are committed to sharing ideas and proposals widely to ensure that the measures are relevant and founded on what matters to people.

Measuring National Well-being - Life in the UK 2012

A unique overview of well-being in the UK today in terms of the economy, people and the environment.

Measuring National Well-being publications

A list of articles and reports from the Measuring National Well-being programme and other related ONS outputs.

National Well-being interactive wheel of measures

Play with the measures of national well-being and compare data from recent time series

National Well-being interactive graphs

Selected national well-being measures by country and region

Subjective Well-being interactive maps

Experimental estimates from the first annual Subjective Well-being Annual Population Survey (APS) dataset, April 2011 to March 2012.

Subjective Well-being interactive bar charts

Experimental estimates from the first annual Subjective Well-being Annual Population Survey (APS) dataset, April 2011 to March 2012.

We must measure what matters - the key elements of national well-being. We want to develop measures based on what people tell us matters most.

Jil Matheson, National Statistician

National Well-being

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