Human rights data for everyone: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI)

Figures & data

Table 1. Economic and social rights data in the 2019 HRMI data release.

Rights and subrights	Assessment standard
	Low- and middle-income country	High-income country
Right to food score
% Children not stunted	✓
% People food secure (Food Insecurity Experience Scale)		✓
Right to education score
Net Secondary school enrolment	✓	✓
Adjusted Net Primary school enrolment	✓
PISAscience % > level 2		✓
PISAmath score % > level 2		✓
PISAreading score % > level 2		✓
Right to health score
% Children surviving to age 5	✓	✓
% People surviving to age 65	✓	✓
% Couples (15–49) using Modern Contraception	✓
% Newborns not low birthweight		✓
Right to housing score
% People with basic sanitation	✓
% People with water on premises	✓
% People with safely managed sanitation		✓
Right to work score
% People not absolutely poor (>3.20 2011 PPP$ per day)	✓
% People not relatively poor (>50% median income)		✓
% Unemployed not long-term (>12 months) unemployed		✓

Figure 1. Human Rights Performance in Australia & Mozambique in 2018. Image Source: 2019 HRMI dataset, data.humanrightsmeasurement.org (last accessed on June 6, 2019).

Figure 2. Freedom from torture and ill-treatment in 2018. Image Source: 2019 HRMI dataset, data.humanrightsmeasurement.org (last accessed on June 6, 2019).

Figure 3. People most at risk of torture and ill-treatment, Australia, 2018. Percentage of expert survey respondents who selected each group is shown in parentheses. Image Source: 2019 HRMI dataset, data.humanrightsmeasurement.org (last accessed on June 6, 2019).

Figure 4. The right to work in low- and middle-income states in sub-Saharan Africa, 2018. Image Source: 2019 HRMI dataset, data.humanrightsmeasurement.org (last accessed on June 6, 2019).