This dashboard brings together the latest data on how people in the UK are doing as individuals, communities, and a nation. It also considers how sustainable our well-being is for the future.

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These measures come from data sources with different geographical coverage and data collection periods. Please use caution when making comparisons between measures and over time. Please also consider the potential impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on data collection and scores.

For more detail on the methods, sources and assessment of change methodology, please read our UK Measures of National Well-being user guide.

For further breakdowns of the data and notes on how to interpret the data, please read our UK Measures of National Well-being: Data tables.

Changes in estimates are displayed over the short term. This is defined as the latest estimate compared with five years ago for Protected areas, Priority species, Air pollution and Surface water status. Short-term change for all other measures is assessed as the latest estimate compared with one year ago.

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Review of the UK Measures of National Well-being, October 2022 to March 2023
Article | Released on 05 July 2023 
Overview of the 2022 to 2023 review of the UK Measures of National Well-being (UK MNW). Details the revised title, measures, and dissemination of the framework.

UK Measures of National Well-being, current and upcoming work: July 2023
Article | Released on 05 July 2023 
Workplan to implement the recommendations from the review of the UK Measures of National Well-being, including the wider well-being workplan for the ONS.

UK Measures of National Well-being user guide
Article | Released on 05 July 2023 
User guide for the UK Measures of National Well-being, providing more detail on the framework. Includes metadata tables of the revised measures, detail on how we produce estimates, and measure change over time.

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