Measuring a Country’s Progress Goes Well Beyond GDP

By Human Rights Watch

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council held a session exploring reforms of global economic rules to better align with human rights. Specifically, experts discussed developing indicators to measure progress other than Gross Domestic Product (GDP).The shortfalls of measuring a country’s headway using GDP is an issue of rising importance on global agendas and was a clear recommendation in the 2024 Pact for the Future, a UN declaration that pledges action on numerous issues.The UN secretary-general stated in 2023 that “GDP does not account for human well-being, environmental sustainability,…

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