Regional indicators

• Indicator summaries
  Regional factsheets

To support the new UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy, ‘Securing the Future’ (published in March 2005), there is a suite of 68 national sustainable development indicators. For 46 of these indicators, for which regional data are available, it has been possible to produce regional versions for the Government Office Regions.

The indicators highlight issues within the priority areas of Sustainable Consumption and Production, Natural Resources, and Sustainable Communities. Other indicators provide useful contextual information.

Key findings

• Every region has shown improvement in a number of areas during the last decade.
• With a few exceptions, every region is moving in the same direction as the national trends.
• There is no single region that is in the best or worst position for all of the indicators.
• For every region there are areas where they are in a better position and areas where they are in a worse position, relative to other regions.

Detailed results

The data are presented in 2 ways, the main pages for which can be accessed from this page below, and from the left hand menu at any time:

• Indicator summaries

Grouped by priority area, each indicator is presented using graphs that show the most up to date position against a baseline year for each region.  These allow both inter-region and (long-term) time series comparisons for that subject.  For clarity, only the most notable regions and changes over time are discussed in brief commentaries accompanying the graphs.

• Regional factsheets

For each of the nine Government Office Regions, these explain and assess progress against each indicator in more detail.  The methods used to assess progress are similar to those used for the national indicator set - a description of these methods can be found here.

Data

The raw data, by indicator and region, can be found here:

• Regional data

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