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Rights Intelligence dataset
The Rights Intelligence dataset gives you a simple and comprehensive set of human rights data for > 190 countries, spanning 15+ years.
With this dataset you will benefit from award-winning methodology and deep insights into what is actually happening on the ground – with regard to human rights – not just what distant analysts think is going on.
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Rights Tracker
(licenses available for commercial use)
What you get
High level of detail and nuance on country human rights performance. Incomplete coverage.
Designed for
General public, civil society, policy advisers, country-level due diligence.
Pricing
Fees apply for commercial use. Can be included in membership package
Rights Intelligence dataset
(members only)
What you get
A simple and comprehensive set of human rights data for > 190 countries spanning 15 – 20 years
Designed for
Business use where comprehensive country coverage is needed.
Pricing
Included in membership package
Why do you need our data?
Good analysis needs good data. But many data sources are plagued with problems. For example:
The World Bank has identified a serious problem with currently available country ESG scores. The S pillar scores are correlated with GDP per capita, which means that lower income countries are missing out on ESG investment, even if they have governance and are doing comparatively well with few resources1. They call this the ingrained income bias problem.
Another problem - which you'll be familiar with if you’re using any kind of economic and social indicators in your ESG or country ratings – is that there are some big gaps in globally comparable information. For example, you can get primary school enrolment data for 183 countries, but China is not one of them. These gaps make it hard to compile comprehensive datasets. This is known as the missing data problem.
When it comes to civil and political rights, most existing monitoring is either not converted into quantitative scores, or it is subject to significant biases and undercounts. We call this the biased undercount problem.
Your analysis can only be as good as the data that go into it.
Rights Intelligence can help.
We have solved the income bias problem by benchmarking each country’s performance against other countries at a similar income level. This unique methodology is peer reviewed and has won two prestigious awards 2. This means investors can identify countries making effective use of their resources – at all levels of income.
We are solving the missing data problem by using a sophisticated statistical model that produces high-quality estimates conditioned on the data that we have. For more than 190 countries so far, our model produces a score within an uncertainty band. A country with more missing data will have a wider credible band around its score, but you’ll still have robust numbers you can incorporate into your analysis.
We have solved the biased undercount problem by developing an expert survey methodology where we go right to the best sources of local information – human rights defenders and experts on the ground in each country. We know that doing in-country human rights due diligence is hard. We are developing a network of trusted experts and compiling their knowledge to make it easier for you!
1. Gratcheva, E., Gurhy, B., Emery, T., Wang, D., Oganes, L., Linzie, J.K., Harvey, L., Marney, K., Murray, J., Rink, R., 2021b. A New Dawn - Rethinking Sovereign ESG (EFI Insight-Finance). World Bank and J.P. Morgan, Washington, DC and New York, NY. 2. The book describing the methodology HRMI uses, Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (Oxford University Press, 2015), won the 2016 best book of the year award from the American Political Science Association’s Human Rights Section, and the three authors were awarded the 2019 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.What you’ll get with Rights Intelligence
The Rights Intelligence dataset includes the following three country-level data series:
Economic and Social Rights Performance
An income-adjusted score showing how well a country is doing on things like education, food, health, housing, and adequate income for its people. This score relates directly to the quality of governance in a country.
Safety from the State Performance
A physical integrity rights score describing levels of freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; forced disappearance; death penalty; extrajudicial execution; and torture and ill-treatment.
A score showing each country’s level of democratic empowerment, including freedom of assembly and association; opinion and expression; participation in government; and freedom of religion and belief.
Empowerment Performance
To illustrate, the image below shows the 2019 Economic and Social Rights Performance scores for 193 countries – ranked from South Korea as the best performing country, down to Equatorial Guinea as the worst. Each country’s score is provided within an 80% credible interval. Countries with wider credible intervals are those where fewer indicators are available.
Economic and Social Rights Performance score – all countries
Scores displayed within an 80% certainty band
Book a call now to get access to our latest data, and learn how we can help you achieve your goals.
Future products under development
Other products we are working on include a reliable and trustworthy chatbot for human rights.