This dashboard provides a visual overview of the indicators of national well-being. It supports the Quality of life in the UK publication series, which provides further commentary on how the UK is faring across different areas of life.
National well-being is focused on measuring how people in the UK are doing as individuals, as communities and as a nation. Reporting of change over time supports evaluation of UK’s progress and future sustainability of national well-being.
The measures of national well-being are organised into 10 areas (domains). Both objective and subjective data are included. The Quality of life in the UK dataset contains further detail, including current and historical data, sub-population breakdowns by region, age and sex for the latest data (where available) and quality information.
Historical trends in the data are charted for each indicator in the dashboard below. Over-time changes are assessed using non-overlapping 95% confidence intervals (where available). We assess and report long-term change by comparing the latest data to that from 5 years prior or, if not available, to the next previous figure. Short-term change over the previous year is also presented in the chart commentary.
The national well-being indicators come from several data sources with different geographical coverage and data collection periods. As such, caution should be exercised when making comparisons between indicators and over time. When interpreting the latest estimates and the presented assessments of change, the potential impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on data collection and the reported scores should be considered.
Review of the Measures of National Well-being
On 3 October 2022, we launched a review of the Measures of National Well-being. You can share your feedback and contribute to the review by filling in our online survey. The survey is open until 25 November 2022.
