Use the Multidimensional Progress Index to track progress across six key dimensions and adjust their weights to explore how different priorities influence overall and country-level index results.
Eurofound’s Multidimensional Progress Index (MPI) displays a composite indicator summarising the six dimensions of social, economic, digital, and environmental indicators. Each dimension is formed by a subdimension and each subdimension includes several indicators. Indicators are sourced from Eurofound’s surveys, Eurostat(opens in new tab)This link opens in a new tab and the European Environment Agency (EEA)(opens in new tab)This link opens in a new tab.
Eurofound has calculated this composite index according to the process described in the methodology report. The tool also allows users to modify the importance of each dimension and sub-dimension to assess how a change in the importance (the weight) would affect the total index value.
The Multidimensional Progress Index builder assigns weights to the six main dimensions and to each sub-dimension. Once the weights are assigned, the tool will display a visualisation allowing users to explore the composite indicator and the sub-indexes per country and per year according to the selection made.
The Multidimensional Progress Index developed by Eurofound is a composite index aimed at monitoring socioeconomic, environmental and digital aspects of the twin transition. It is structured around 6 dimensions.
The 14 sub-dimensions capture different aspects of each dimension as follows:
Economic dimension: Includes macroeconomic aspects, labour market participation, human capital investment, and human capital creation
Social dimension: Includes living and working conditions
Digital dimesion: Includes digital skills and digital adoption
Environmental dimension: Includes climate change and the green transition
Institutional dimension: Encompasses industrial relations and political participation
Trust dimension: Includes trust and quality of institutions
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15 December 2025
Europe's economy is undergoing a historic twin transition – becoming both digital and green. The economic dimension examines how these transformations affect prosperity and well-being across the Union. It covers three important areas: human capital, economic factors and the labour market. Human capital refers to people's skills and knowledge gained through education, training and work experience. When countries invest in their people, through education, but also by protecting their health, their economies tend to grow faster. Economic factors examine the wealth produced and the investments and innovations driving sustainable growth, including how businesses and governments are adapting while maintaining competitiveness. The labour market aspect tracks how employment and jobs are evolving, ensuring people can find suitable opportunities, aligning with both personal needs, aspirations and the needs of a transforming economy. Together, these elements show us whether the benefits of Europe's twin transition are being shared fairly across regions and communities, highlighting challenges and opportunities.
Subdimensions
This dimension focuses on two critical areas: living and working conditions. The living conditions aspect monitors some of the most important aspects affecting everyone’s lives, including housing affordability, healthcare access, environmental quality, and income levels. Working conditions cover all aspects related to the terms and conditions of employment and the working environment, from job security and working hours to health and safety, training and skills, work-life balance, and pay.
Subdimensions
Sustained progress in digital transformation is essential to strengthen the EU’s global competitiveness and resilience. High-quality digital infrastructure is critical for enabling participation in the digital economy. At the same time, digital skills are vital to support labour market inclusion and ensure equitable access to increasingly digitalised public services. Enhancing the quality and reach of digital public services can improve administrative efficiency, and reduce transaction costs.
Subdimensions
This dimension refers to ‘climate change and environmental degradation’, and ‘green transition’. Climate change and environmental degradation affect many aspects of everyone’s lives, including our health, safety, ability to grow food, housing, and work. Certain regions and groups of population are more vulnerable to it. The need for rendering economies (including the extraction, transformation, distribution and consumption of goods and services) more sustainable is increasing along with the increasingly felt consequences of climate change and environmental degradation. The green transition is the process of transitioning to more sustainable economies, which are also more resilient to future shocks. This can be done via mitigation measures, which aim at reducing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (for example, policies aiming to increase use of renewable energy, such as wind or solar energy, or to reduce CO2 emissions from transport or industry).
Subdimensions
Trust and cohesion are the essential glue for European societies. This dimension reflects the strength of social fabric and governance legitimacy. Election turnout and share of women in national parliament show civic engagement in democratic processes and equitable representation. Trust in the EU and national governments measure public confidence in steering the transformations. High trust and cohesion foster a stronger Europe and suggest greater capacity to navigate economic and social shifts. High levels across these indicators suggest a greater capacity for collective action, acceptance of change, and the resilience needed to navigate the economic and social shifts inherent in the green and digital transitions, ultimately fostering a more unified and equitable Europe.
Subdimensions
Strong institutions form Europe's twin transition foundation. This dimension examines how laws and governance shape adaptation through two areas. Institutional quality measures government effectiveness in creating environments where citizens thrive. High-quality institutions build trust and ensure benefits reach all. Industrial relations describe interactions between employers, workers and governments governing employment. These areas determine how Europe transforms while maintaining cohesion.
