1: Living Planet Index

The Living Planet Report is the world´s leading science-based analysis of the health of our planet and the impact of human activity.

It is a health check for our planet, showing the state of biodiversity and the health of the planet, the threats it faces and what this means for us humans. The report presents a calculation that shows the state of the world's vertebrates, whether they have increased or decreased. The report measures changes across thousands of different populations. The Living Planet Report was first published in 1998.

The Living Planet Index (LPI), which is at the heart of the Living Planet Report, takes the temperature of vertebrate health and tracks population changes over time. The study covers almost 32,000 species populations this year, which is just over 11,000 more than in 2020, the largest ever increase in population numbers between two editions of this report.

The conclusions and recommendations of the Living Planet Report are based on several different metrics, one of the largest being the Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures and assesses the drivers of biodiversity loss. The LPI started being measured in 1970.