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The Global Risks Index · GRX-IDX-SOC · VUL Human and systems vulnerability

Indice de vulnérabilité socio-économique

Weighted aggregation, on 0 to 10, of poverty and deprivation, inequality, human capital deficit, the social protection gap and gender inequality.

Page GRX-IDX-SOCEdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30Indicator Standard IDX.SOC.poverty.socioeconomic_vulnerabilityValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
FIG 1 · Method card
Aggregation

geometric

expert weights · floor 0.1 where geometric

Incertitude

1,000 draws

normalisation, weights, aggregation, imputation

Structure

5 components

18 leaf indicators

Couverture

67% minimum

modelled share ≤ 20%

From the Indicator Standard definition of this index.
18
leaf indicators
5
components
1,000
Monte Carlo draws
5
series read it
01Construction

From indicators to the composite

How far a society’s poverty, inequality and thin protection would amplify any hazard; the HDI and IHDI are shown alongside as external references, not inputs, to avoid double counting.

computation
How Socio-economic vulnerability is computed
Graph26 nodes
Graphe
01Indicateurs
02Sub-indices
03Domain index
04Pilier
05Composite
100%
Liste
  1. Taux d'extrême pauvreté, 3.00 USD par jour (PPA 2021)
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the population living in households whose consumption or income per person is below USD 3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing-power parities, the international extreme poverty line.
  2. Taux de pauvreté au seuil national de pauvreté
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the population below the country’s own official poverty line, as set and estimated by national authorities from household surveys.
  3. Taux de pauvreté multidimensionnelle (IPM mondial)
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the population deprived in at least one third of the weighted health, education and living-standard indicators of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index.
  4. Indice de Gini
    Indicator · IND · score
    Gini index of household consumption or income per person, from 0 (perfect equality) to 100 (one person holds everything).
  5. Part du revenu ou de la consommation des 40 pour cent les plus pauvres
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of total household consumption or income held by the poorest 40% of the population.
  6. Croissance de la consommation ou du revenu des 40 pour cent les plus pauvres
    Indicator · IND · %
    Annualised growth rate of real mean consumption or income per person of the poorest 40% between two comparable surveys about five years apart.
  7. Perte de développement humain due aux inégalités
    Indicator · IND · %
    Percentage difference between the HDI and the inequality-adjusted HDI, as published by UNDP.
  8. Durée moyenne de scolarisation
    Indicator · IND · a
    Average number of years of formal education completed by people aged 25 and older, as published by UNDP.
  9. Durée attendue de scolarisation
    Indicator · IND · a
    Years of schooling a child entering school can expect to receive if current age-specific enrolment rates persist, as published by UNDP.
  10. Pauvreté des apprentissages
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of children at the end-of-primary age who cannot read and understand a simple age-appropriate text, counting out-of-school children as not reading proficiently.
  11. Taux d'alphabétisation des adultes
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of people aged 15 and over who can read and write a short simple statement about their everyday life with understanding.
  12. Population couverte par au moins une prestation de protection sociale
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the population receiving at least one contributory or non-contributory cash social protection benefit, or actively contributing to a social insurance scheme.
  13. Emploi informel, part de l'emploi total
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of all employed people, agricultural and non-agricultural, whose work is not covered by labour legislation, social security or employment benefits in law or practice.
  14. Jeunes sans emploi, ni éducation, ni formation
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of people aged 15 to 24 who are neither employed nor in education or training.
  15. Enfants de 5 à 17 ans astreints au travail
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of children aged 5 to 17 engaged in economic activity or household chores above age-specific hour thresholds, or in hazardous work.
  16. Indice d'inégalité de genre (PNUD)
    Indicator · IND · score
    UNDP composite, from 0 to 1, of gender gaps in reproductive health, empowerment and labour-market participation, ingested as published.
  17. Taux d'activité des femmes
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of women aged 15 and over who are employed or seeking work (ILO modelled estimate).
  18. Sièges occupés par des femmes au parlement national
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of seats in the single or lower chamber of the national parliament held by women.
  19. Poverty and deprivation sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 2 · 36.4%
    Composite of the extreme poverty headcount at USD 3.00 a day, the national poverty headcount and the multidimensional poverty headcount.
  20. Inequality sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 18.2%
    Composite of the Gini index, the bottom-40% share, bottom-40% growth and the inequality loss in human development.
  21. Human capital deficit sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 18.2%
    Composite of mean and expected years of schooling, learning poverty and adult literacy, oriented so that higher values mean a larger deficit.
  22. Social protection gap sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 18.2%
    Composite of social protection coverage, informal employment, youth NEET and child labour, oriented so that higher values mean a wider gap.
  23. Gender inequality sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 0.5 · 9.1%
    Composite of the UNDP Gender Inequality Index, female labour-force participation and women’s parliamentary representation.
  24. Indice de vulnérabilité socio-économique
    Domain index · IDX · geometric
    Weighted aggregation, on 0 to 10, of poverty and deprivation, inequality, human capital deficit, the social protection gap and gender inequality.
  25. Vulnérabilité humaine et des systèmes
    Pillar · PILLAR · 8 indices
    How susceptible are people, livelihoods, ecosystems and essential systems to harm when a shock arrives?
  26. NXS-GRX (canonical data, provenance and risk) Composite Risk
    Composite · COMPOSITE · four pillars
    Composite = (HTE × VUL × MSF × LCC)^(1/4), each pillar on 0–10 floored at 0.1; pillar = expert-weighted geometric mean of its domain indices
Non exécutéEn coursTerminé
FIG 2. 18 indicators, 5 components, real Indicator Standard weights (the bar under each node is its share). Select a node to trace what it feeds and what feeds it; Simulate run plays the computation in order. Schematic of the construction; source: Indicator Standard composite definitions.
02Simulator

Run this index’s own aggregation

Set each component, change the aggregation or the weight uncertainty, and watch the interval, the class probability and each component’s contribution respond.

FIG 3 · Simulator: aggregate socio-economic vulnerability on your numbers
Components (0 to 10)
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Contribution of each component (leave one out)
Simulator: the index’s published aggregation run on numbers you set, with 1,000 draws over weights and aggregation. The slider positions are starting points for the explainer, not NXS-GRX values. Simulated on your own inputs; not a measured result.
03Méthode

Treatment, normalisation, weighting, aggregation, uncertainty

Treatment
WINSORISE
Outlier rule
|skew| > 2, kurtosis > 3.5
Normalisation
IDENTITY
Imputation
NONE
Coverage minimum
67% of components
Modelled share cap
20% of weight
Weighting
expert
Aggregation
geometric
Scale
0 to 10
Incertitude
1,000 Monte Carlo runs over normalisation, weights, aggregation, imputation
Framework basis
INFORM Risk vulnerability dimension (structure only); UNDP HDR 2025; JRC COIN 10-step guide; OECD/JRC Handbook (2008)
Très faible0,0 à < 2,0
Faible2,0 à < 3,5
Moyen3,5 à < 5,0
Élevé5,0 à < 6,5
Très élevé6.5 à 10.0
04Composantes

5 components, 18 indicators

Poverty and deprivation sub-index w 2

Composite of the extreme poverty headcount at USD 3.00 a day, the national poverty headcount and the multidimensional poverty headcount.

IndicateurUnitéÉléments probantsSourcesPart
Taux d'extrême pauvreté, 3.00 USD par jour (PPA 2021)IND.SOC.poverty.extreme_poverty.usd300%Class Bwb-pip, wb-wdi50.0%
Taux de pauvreté au seuil national de pauvretéIND.SOC.poverty.national_poverty%Class Bnational-statistical-offices, wb-wdi25.0%
Taux de pauvreté multidimensionnelle (IPM mondial)IND.SOC.poverty.multidimensional_poverty%Class Cundp-ophi-global-mpi25.0%

Inequality sub-index w 1

Composite of the Gini index, the bottom-40% share, bottom-40% growth and the inequality loss in human development.

IndicateurUnitéÉléments probantsSourcesPart
Indice de GiniIND.SOC.inequality.gini{score}Class Bwb-pip, wb-wdi25.0%
Part du revenu ou de la consommation des 40 pour cent les plus pauvresIND.SOC.inequality.bottom40_income_share%Class Bwb-pip, wb-wdi25.0%
Croissance de la consommation ou du revenu des 40 pour cent les plus pauvresIND.SOC.inequality.bottom40_growth%Class Bwb-pip, wb-wdi25.0%
Perte de développement humain due aux inégalitésIND.SOC.inequality.human_development_loss%Class Cundp-hdr25.0%

Human capital deficit sub-index w 1

Composite of mean and expected years of schooling, learning poverty and adult literacy, oriented so that higher values mean a larger deficit.

IndicateurUnitéÉléments probantsSourcesPart
Durée moyenne de scolarisationIND.SOC.education.mean_years_schoolingaClass Cundp-hdr, unesco-uis, barro-lee25.0%
Durée attendue de scolarisationIND.SOC.education.expected_years_schoolingaClass Cundp-hdr, unesco-uis25.0%
Pauvreté des apprentissagesIND.SOC.education.learning_poverty%Class Cwb-learning-poverty, unesco-uis, wb-wdi25.0%
Taux d'alphabétisation des adultesIND.SOC.education.adult_literacy%Class Bunesco-uis, wb-wdi25.0%

Social protection gap sub-index w 1

Composite of social protection coverage, informal employment, youth NEET and child labour, oriented so that higher values mean a wider gap.

IndicateurUnitéÉléments probantsSourcesPart
Population couverte par au moins une prestation de protection socialeIND.SOC.protection.social_protection_coverage%Class Bilo-world-social-protection-database, wb-aspire40.0%
Emploi informel, part de l'emploi totalIND.SOC.protection.informal_employment%Class Bilo-ilostat20.0%
Jeunes sans emploi, ni éducation, ni formationIND.SOC.protection.youth_neet%Class Bilo-ilostat, wb-wdi20.0%
Enfants de 5 à 17 ans astreints au travailIND.SOC.protection.child_labour%Class Bunicef-mics, ilo-ilostat20.0%

Gender inequality sub-index w 0.5

Composite of the UNDP Gender Inequality Index, female labour-force participation and women’s parliamentary representation.

IndicateurUnitéÉléments probantsSourcesPart
Indice d'inégalité de genre (PNUD)IND.SOC.gender.gender_inequality_index{score}Class Cundp-hdr50.0%
Taux d'activité des femmesIND.SOC.gender.female_labour_participation%Class Cilo-ilostat, wb-wdi25.0%
Sièges occupés par des femmes au parlement nationalIND.SOC.gender.women_in_parliament%Class Aipu-parline, wb-wdi25.0%
05Domaine

Social and human development

Poverty, inequality, education, gender, social protection and human development.

Sub-domainIndicateurs
Poverty5
Inequality4
Education4
Gender3
Social protection4
Développement humain2

Anchor frameworks (pillar structure and definitions only): UNDP HDR 2025; SDG 1, 4, 5, 10; WB Poverty and Inequality Platform.

06Indicateurs

All 22 social and human development indicators

FIG 4 · Indicators in scope, by domain and sub-domain
SOC · 22
Area is the number of indicator definitions; colour is the pillar the domain feeds (Macroeconomy and Space feed through their indices). Select a block to filter the table. Source: Indicator Standard Nexus Indicator Standard register.
IndicateurDomaineSub-domainComposantUnitéNiveauxCrosswalks
Taux d'extrême pauvreté, 3.00 USD par jour (PPA 2021)IND.SOC.poverty.extreme_poverty.usd300SOCPovertyvulnerability%COUNTRYWB_WDI SI.POV.DDAY SDG 1.1.1
Taux de pauvreté, 4.20 USD par jour (PPA 2021)IND.SOC.poverty.poverty.usd420SOCPovertyvulnerability%COUNTRYWB_WDI SI.POV.LMIC
Taux de pauvreté, 8.30 USD par jour (PPA 2021)IND.SOC.poverty.poverty.usd830SOCPovertyvulnerability%COUNTRYWB_WDI SI.POV.UMIC
Taux de pauvreté au seuil national de pauvretéIND.SOC.poverty.national_povertySOCPovertyvulnerability%COUNTRY, ADM1WB_WDI SI.POV.NAHC SDG 1.2.1
Taux de pauvreté multidimensionnelle (IPM mondial)IND.SOC.poverty.multidimensional_povertySOCPovertyvulnerability%COUNTRY, ADM1SDG 1.2.2 WB_WDI SI.POV.MPWB
Indice de GiniIND.SOC.inequality.giniSOCInequalityvulnerability{score}COUNTRYWB_WDI SI.POV.GINI
Part du revenu ou de la consommation des 40 pour cent les plus pauvresIND.SOC.inequality.bottom40_income_shareSOCInequalityvulnerability%COUNTRYWB_WDI SI.DST.FRST.20
Croissance de la consommation ou du revenu des 40 pour cent les plus pauvresIND.SOC.inequality.bottom40_growthSOCInequalityadaptive capacity%COUNTRYWB_WDI SI.SPR.PC40.ZG SDG 10.1.1
Perte de développement humain due aux inégalitésIND.SOC.inequality.human_development_lossSOCInequalityvulnerability%COUNTRYHDR loss
Durée moyenne de scolarisationIND.SOC.education.mean_years_schoolingSOCEducationadaptive capacityaCOUNTRYHDR mys
Durée attendue de scolarisationIND.SOC.education.expected_years_schoolingSOCEducationadaptive capacityaCOUNTRYHDR eys
Pauvreté des apprentissagesIND.SOC.education.learning_povertySOCEducationvulnerability%COUNTRYWB_WDI SE.LPV.PRIM SDG 4.1.1
Taux d'alphabétisation des adultesIND.SOC.education.adult_literacySOCEducationadaptive capacity%COUNTRYWB_WDI SE.ADT.LITR.ZS SDG 4.6.1
Indice d'inégalité de genre (PNUD)IND.SOC.gender.gender_inequality_indexSOCGendervulnerability{score}COUNTRYHDR gii
Taux d'activité des femmesIND.SOC.gender.female_labour_participationSOCGenderadaptive capacity%COUNTRYWB_WDI SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS
Sièges occupés par des femmes au parlement nationalIND.SOC.gender.women_in_parliamentSOCGenderadaptive capacity%COUNTRYWB_WDI SG.GEN.PARL.ZS SDG 5.5.1
Population couverte par au moins une prestation de protection socialeIND.SOC.protection.social_protection_coverageSOCSocial protectioncoping capacity%COUNTRYSDG 1.3.1 ILO SDG_0131_SEX_SOC_RT WB_WDI per_allsp.cov_pop_tot
Jeunes sans emploi, ni éducation, ni formationIND.SOC.protection.youth_neetSOCSocial protectionvulnerability%COUNTRYWB_WDI SL.UEM.NEET.ZS SDG 8.6.1 ILO SDG_0861_SEX_RT
Emploi informel, part de l'emploi totalIND.SOC.protection.informal_employmentSOCSocial protectionvulnerability%COUNTRYSDG 8.3.1 ILO SDG_0831_SEX_ECO_RT WB_WDI SL.ISV.IFRM.ZS
Enfants de 5 à 17 ans astreints au travailIND.SOC.protection.child_labourSOCSocial protectionvulnerability%COUNTRYSDG 8.7.1 ILO SDG_B871_SEX_AGE_RT WB_WDI SL.TLF.0714.ZS
Indice de développement humain (PNUD)IND.SOC.development.hdiSOCDéveloppement humainadaptive capacity{score}COUNTRYHDR hdi
Indice de développement humain ajusté aux inégalités (PNUD)IND.SOC.development.ihdiSOCDéveloppement humainadaptive capacity{score}COUNTRYHDR ihdi
07Cotation

Socio-economic vulnerability index, world

The world reading of this index, every country as a tile and the largest movements since the previous edition.

NXS-GRX · SOC · 195 profiles · 0–10 scale
Socio-economic vulnerability index, world
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Les valeurs sont publiées avec l'édition ; l'intervalle, la classe et la variation apparaissent ici.
Édition précédente
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Range since 2016
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Composite couplé
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Score de couplage S
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Pulse, dernière semaine
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Outlook, 12 months
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Méthode
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Tirages
1,000
Socio-economic vulnerability index, world, by edition

Aucune valeur publiée pour l'instant. La première édition trace ici l'historique avec sa bande d'intervalle et les bornes de classe.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.
Aucune évolution pour l'instant. Les changements depuis l'édition précédente seront listés ici à partir de la deuxième édition, avec les indicateurs qui les ont déterminés.
08Valeurs

Country values

FIG 5 · Socio-economic vulnerability index: countries (values when released)
Chargement de la carte
AndorreAntigua-et-BarbudaBahreïnBarbadeComoresCabo VerdeDominiqueMicronésie (États fédérés de)GrenadeKiribatiSaint-Kitts-et-NevisSainte-LucieLiechtensteinMonacoMaldivesÎles MarshallMalteMauriceNauruPalaosSingapourSaint-MarinSao Tomé-et-PrincipeSeychellesTongaTuvaluSaint-SiègeSaint-Vincent-et-les GrenadinesSamoa
Equal Earth · Natural Earth 1:110mValues when released
Until the first edition is released the map shows UN M49 regions or the Nexus Reports edition; it then shows this index’s classes with each country’s interval on hover. Countries are listed by name, never ordered by value.
Tuiles
/api/v1/public/grix/risk-products/tiles/soc/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt
Clé d'observation
nis:IDX.SOC.poverty.socioeconomic_vulnerability:{ISO3}:{YEAR}:A
10Validity

Crosswalks and validity checks

Crosswalks map leaf indicators to source code lists; established indices are used for validity checks, never re-weighted as inputs.

Code systemLeaf indicators mapped
WB_WDI14
SDG11
HDR4
ILO4
11Dans le Nexus

Platforms, standards and ways to take part

Field and service platforms of GCRI, GRF and GRA, the Nexus Risk Standards for this domain, learning, working groups and open calls. Every link is a live page.

12Citer

Citer et réutiliser

GCRI Canada (2026). The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX): Socio-economic vulnerability index (GRX-IDX-SOC), Baseline Edition 2026. Preparatory working draft. https://risksindex.com/indices/socioeconomic-vulnerability/ UNI NXS-GRX-AR-000128.

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