The MDG Dashboard presents the Millennium Development Goals indicators in a highly communicative format (see e.g. the gender equality World map below) aimed at decision-makers and citizens interested in the MDGs and Sustainable Development. This free multilingual database provides over 60 MDG indicators for ca. 200 countries and 17 years (1990-2007) based on original United Nations statistics (updated in November 2009). The developers of this tool, IISD and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, JRC, hope that these indicators will contribute to an informed debate about development policy options.

Click here or into the blinking icon below for a free download of the MDG Dashboard:
(if you hesitate to install software, see the interactive demo or the preview (e.g. Human Development Index, HDI, aussi en français - tambien en español) or this 1 MB Word doc and decide afterwards...)

  Pulse aquì por la version español!
Online "Dashboard collection", methodology, printable intro: rtf.gif (223 bytes) (MS Word, 9 pages/240 kB)
Several additional indicator sets, e.g. CGDEV's Commitment to Development Index, the World Economic Forum Environmental Sustainability Index  (ESI), the Ecological Footprint, World Bank Governance indicators and the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) indicators are available - just press Control F5 from a running Dashboard.

Note: The software may ask you if you want to see the manual - it is highly recommended to read it! (in English, Italian, German or Spanish - choose your language with Control F7, then press F1 to see the manual)
V49.3 of 14 January 2010, 0.76 MB CGSDI Dashboard software New: World maps, gap filler, manual, better Internet access with F2

- In the green box, choose your language, and click Start
Download the Dashboard software
Getting curious? Go ahead, download the tool, or scroll through the Dashboard Collection

The smallprint: We supply the "Dashboard of Sustainability" software "as is", and decline any responsibility for damages that could result from using it. By downloading the software tool, you accept this condition. Special thanks to the MASM 32 Support Forum and to those programmers who provided OpenSource tools included here: Sfx7Zip self-extractor by Altap based on Igor Pavlov's 7-Zip LZMA SDK, PNG support by Miyasaka Masaru. The UN CSD data compilation included in this package was done by John O'Connor and remains his intellectual property.
Translations:To Spanish by Karime Harcha Lorca (Valdivia, Chile), to Italian by the students of Paolo Pileri (Politecnico di Milano), to Portuguese by Eduardo M. Martins (Geographer, Porto Alegre).

xb_prev.gif (134 bytes)JRC indicators home page

Installation to network drives: change the drive letter in the upper right corner of the green installation box. Please if you have any problems with the installation! ETR

Mapkit, IPAT-S modelling software, Expert Corner, version history

Why not develop your own Dashboard based on a simple spreadsheet? xb_next.gif (133 bytes)

See also key links, Beyond GDP and the MDG Dashboard at OECD

and the Alice and Skynet mirror sites