Germany
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| Germany | |
 Flag of Germany | |
| Population (In Millions) | 81.80 |
| Human Development Index | 9/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 3,600.83 |
| Global Peace Index | 15/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 51/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | - /86 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 17/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 3.3 |
| More information on variables | |
UNDP Human Development Report Trends-2011
The Human Development Index represents a push for a broader definition of well-being and provides a composite measure of three basic dimensions of human development: health, education and income.According to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report 2011 Germany's HDI is 0.905, which gives the country a rank of 9 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI of OECD as a region increased from 0.749 in 1980 to 0.873 today, placing Germany above the regional average[1]
Germany's HDI breaks down as follow:
- Health: 0.953
- Education: 0.928
- Income: 0.838[2].
Main Initiatives
Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on "Growth, Welfare, Quality of Life - Ways to sustainable economics and societal progress in the social market economy"
The Commission (Enquete-Kommission Wachtums, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität Wege zu nachhaltigem Wirtschaften und gesellschaftlichem Fortschritt in der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft) was agreed upon by the German Bundestag on December 2, 2010. The Commission consists of 17 members of Parliament and 17 outside experts and tasked with working until mid-2013.
The Social Indicators and Research Centre (ZSi)
of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, produces a number of reports including EQUALSOC - Economic Quality of Life, Social Change and Cohesion.
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
Is an initiative by Gallup and Healthways, has been collecting survey data in Germany on subjective well-being and health since March 2011.
The Center for Societal Progress
(Zentrum fuer gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt) is an independent think tank that does research on progress in Germany and other relatively rich countries.
The Bertelsmann Stiftung has a project that aims at increasing the visibility of civic engagement through their project "Placing Civil Society on the Economic Map".
German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)
The RNE has been asked to contribute to the process of elaborating and updating the strategy and to develop political recommendations to implement sustainable development. Also, its task is to strengthen communication about sustainable development. The Council stands for societal dialogue, it is not a scientific advisory body.
Child Well-being Initiatives
The publication "Wissenschaftliche Bestandesaufnahme der Forschung zu 'Wohlbefinden von Eltern und Kindern'" of the Bundesministerium für Familie, Frauen, Senioren und Jugend gives an overview of the current state of research on subjective well-being in Germany in general and family and child well-being in particular. The conclusions of the report include a push for more child-centered policies and the use of subjective social indicators to get the children's perspective. The study "Good Childhood Inquiry" by the The Children's Society, based in the United Kingdom is praised as a good example with its explorative use of methodologies. In Germany, the interdependence between children's and parents' well-being must become a focus topic. Both are interrelated and should therefore be measured and analysed in combination.
Illustration from the Publication "Wissenschaftliche Bestandesaufnahme der Forschung zu 'Wohlbefinden von Eltern und Kindern'".[3]
UNICEF Report on the state of children in Germany
In the 2010 UNICEF report, Germany's rank increases from the 11th rank in 2007 (UNICEF Child-Wellbeing measure) to the 8th rank among 21 industrialized countries. The report analyses six dimensions: Child Material Well-being, Child Health and Safety, Education and training, Child Family and Peer Relationships, Child Behaviour and Risks and Child Subjective Well-being.
The report indicates the urgent need to address the situation of singles mothers that are strongly affected by material poverty. Children and youth perceive their professional perspectives as dire compared to other youth in industrialized countries. Furthermore, there is also a comparatively high share of young people that feels lonely and as being an outsider.[4]
Official Statistics
Federal Statistical Office Germany
Statistical Yearbook 2009 (only in German)
Happiness in Germany
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Germany.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Germany. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
Progress Papers and Publications
- Sustainable Development in Germany: Indicator Report 2010 Federal Statistical Office of Germany, 2010.
- Monitoring economic performance, quality of life and sustainability, 2010, Joint report by the German and French councils of economic experts.
- Sustainable development in Germany - Indicator Report 2010, 2010, Federal Statistical Office.
- Programme for International Student Assessment 2006: Student Performance in An International Comparison, 2006, OECD PISA Deutschland, Germany.
- A System of Sustainability for German Regions, 2002, Antonia Milbert, Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), Germany.
- Event:International Trade Fair for Renewable Energy
- Event:Hybrid_Wind/PV/Systems_and_Micro_Grids_Fundamentals_-_extended
See also
References
- ↑ United Nations Development Programme.2011 Human Development Reports.http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/DEU.html
- ↑ United Nations Development Programme.2011 Human Development Reports.http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/profiles/DEU.html
- ↑ Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (2009), “Wissenschaftliche Bestandesaufnahme der Forschung zu “Wohlbefinden von Eltern und Kindern”, Monitor Familienforschung, Beiträge aus Forschung, Statistik und Familienpolitik, 19, Berlin, September. P.8 Available at (in German language): http://www.bmfsfj.de/RedaktionBMFSFJ/Broschuerenstelle/Pdf-Anlagen/Monitor-Familienforschung-Ausgabe-19,property=pdf,bereich=bmfsfj,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf
- ↑ UNICEF Press Communication (14 January 2010), "Mittelplatz für Deutschland". Available (in German) on: http://www.unicef.de/presse/pm/2010/deutschland2010/
External Links
- The German Sustainable Development Strategy:Facing Policy, Management and Political Strategy Assessments European Environment 17, 164–176 (2007)
- Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
- Auswaertiges Amt Website
- Official & Independant Website about Germany
- German Government Website
- Germany Info
- OECD reports and statistics on Germany
