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    • 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)

    Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

    The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 20 performance indicators in the following 9 policy categories: health impacts, air quality, water and sanitation, water resources, agriculture, forests, fisheries, biodiversity and habitat, and climate and energy. These categories track performance and progress on two broad policy objectives, environmental health and ecosystem vitality. The EPI's proximity-to-target methodology facilitates cross-country comparisons among economic and regional peer groups. The data set includes the 2016 EPI and component scores, backcast EPI scores for 1950-2016, and time-series source data. The 2016 EPI was formally released in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on January 23, 2016. These are the result of collaboration between the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group, Yale University, Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), and the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Interactive Website for the 2016 EPI is at https://epi.yale.edu.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.7927/H44M92GX
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4HT2M77
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4D21VHT
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H48913SG
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4416V05
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X928CF
    https://doi.org/10.7927/f54c-0r44

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
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    Data First Published 2016-06-23
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    Category EPI, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H44M92GX, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4HT2M77, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4D21VHT, https://doi.org/10.7927/H48913SG, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4416V05, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X928CF, https://doi.org/10.7927/f54c-0r44
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