SGI 2024 | Sustainable Policymaking | Environmental Sustainability | Effective Environmental Health Protection

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Values among 30 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Number of age-standardized disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water (EPI-Variable UWD).
Year:	2021
Unit:	Age-standardized DALYs/100k people
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	EPI
Data for:
Annotation:	Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Environmental Performance Index (EPI): Dataset: Unsafe drinking water (UWD) URL: https://epi.yale.edu/downloa… extracted 2024/07/03.

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	14.85875
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Unsafe Drinking Water

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9.3

1.19

Finland

9.2

1.30

USA

9.1

1.41

Germany

9.1

1.51

Greece

9.1

1.56

Upper middle group

Italy

8.9

1.79

Switzerland

8.9

1.89

Ireland

8.8

1.93

Norway

8.8

1.95

Canada

8.8

1.98

Austria

8.8

2.06

Australia

8.7

2.07

Portugal

8.6

2.37

Sweden

8.5

2.40

Spain

8.3

2.76

Belgium

8.0

3.23

Israel

8.0

3.26

Denmark

8.0

3.35

Netherlands

7.6

3.99

Slovenia

6.8

5.21

France

6.7

5.46

Slovakia

6.7

5.47

New Zealand

6.1

6.42

Lower middle group

Latvia

5.3

7.78

Estonia

4.4

9.32

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Bottom group

Poland

2.5

12.39

Lithuania

2.1

13.08

Japan

1.7

13.64

Czechia

1.0

18.75

Hungary

1.0

21.17