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UN Policy Annex Life Value Indicators (LVI) — Monitoring Framework for Life-Value-Centered Economic Governance

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日期:2026/01/17   IAE 

UN Policy Annex

Life Value Indicators (LVI) — Monitoring Framework for Life-Value-Centered Economic Governance

Annex Purpose
This annex provides a practical indicator architecture—the Life Value Indicators (LVI)—to support UN member states, agencies, and partners in monitoring Life Value–centered governance across economic, social, health, environmental, and intergenerational domains. The framework is designed to be implementable using existing national statistics and UN data systems, while enabling staged enhancement toward AI-enabled “life cost” accounting.

A. Definition and Measurement Logic

A1. Life Value (Operational Definition)

Life Value is the integrated capacity of a society to protect and enhance:

  1. human survival and health, 2) dignity and opportunity, 3) care continuity and family resilience, 4) ecological life-support systems, and 5) intergenerational sustainability.

A2. Indicator Design Principles

  • Life-first: prioritize survival, health, and care continuity outcomes before economic output measures.

  • Cost internalization: progressively incorporate health, care, and environmental costs that are otherwise externalized.

  • Equity by design: require disaggregation (sex, age, disability, income, geography).

  • Prevention orientation: reward upstream investment (primary prevention, early intervention).

  • Comparability + flexibility: allow countries to start with core indicators and expand.

A3. Scoring and Index Construction

  • Each indicator is normalized to a 0–100 scale.

  • Domain indices are computed as the weighted average of normalized indicators.

  • The overall LVI Composite is a weighted average of domain indices.

Recommended default weights (policy-neutral starting point):

  • Survival & Health (20)

  • Care Continuity & Social Protection (20)

  • Education & Capability (10)

  • Time Sovereignty & Work-Life Balance (10)

  • Inequality & Mobility (10)

  • Environment & Life-Support Systems (15)

  • Peace, Safety & Institutional Trust (10)

  • Intergenerational Sustainability (5)

B. LVI Domains and Core Indicator Set

B1. Domain 1 — Survival & Health (LVI-H)

Goal: maximize healthy survival and life quality.

Core Indicators (Tier 1—most widely available)

  • H1. Healthy life expectancy (HALE)

  • H2. All-cause premature mortality (30–70) / NCD mortality

  • H3. Avoidable/amenable mortality (or proxy: mortality from treatable conditions)

  • H4. Catastrophic health expenditure incidence (households spending >10% or >25% of consumption/income on health)

Optional (Tier 2—system maturity)

  • H5. Mental health burden / suicide rate

  • H6. Primary care access index (coverage, wait time, geographic accessibility)

B2. Domain 2 — Care Continuity & Social Protection (LVI-Care)

Goal: ensure dignity-centered care across the life course, especially in aging societies.

Core Indicators

  • C1. Long-term care (LTC) coverage rate (home/community/institutional) for people with moderate–severe functional limitations

  • C2. Care fragmentation index (proxy options below)

  • C3. Caregiver burden prevalence (hours/week, high-intensity caregiving rate)

  • C4. Social protection coverage (old-age, disability, unemployment; or “effective coverage” where available)

Proxies for C2 (use one or more depending on data availability)

  • Share of older adults experiencing unplanned hospital readmissions within 30 days

  • Share of LTC recipients with single care plan spanning health + social services

  • Delayed discharge days due to care placement unavailability

  • “Multiple-agency” navigation burden: number of agencies required per case (survey-based)

B3. Domain 3 — Education & Capability (LVI-Edu)

Goal: maximize non-deferrable capability formation.

Core Indicators

  • E1. Completion rate (lower secondary; plus upper secondary where available)

  • E2. Foundational learning proficiency (reading/math at end of primary/lower secondary)

  • E3. NEET rate (youth not in education/employment/training)

B4. Domain 4 — Time Sovereignty & Work-Life Balance (LVI-Time)

Goal: treat time as a life budget; reduce life depletion by overwork and unpaid care overload.

Core Indicators

  • T1. Average weekly working hours (and % working long hours, e.g., >48)

  • T2. Unpaid care and domestic work hours (sex-disaggregated)

  • T3. Work-life conflict prevalence (survey-based; proxy: paid leave utilization rate)

B5. Domain 5 — Inequality & Mobility (LVI-Equity)

Goal: reduce structural inequality and life chance gaps.

Core Indicators

  • Q1. Income/consumption inequality (Gini or Palma ratio)

  • Q2. Wealth concentration proxy (top 10% wealth share if available; otherwise asset inequality proxy)

  • Q3. Relative poverty rate and/or multidimensional poverty

  • Q4. Intergenerational mobility proxy (education mobility; or share of bottom-quintile reaching middle quintiles)

B6. Domain 6 — Environment & Life-Support Systems (LVI-Green)

Goal: safeguard ecological conditions necessary for survival.

Core Indicators

  • G1. PM2.5 exposure (population-weighted)

  • G2. GHG emissions per capita (and/or carbon intensity)

  • G3. Access to safely managed water and sanitation

  • G4. Heat/Climate risk exposure (or climate-related disaster impact rate)

B7. Domain 7 — Peace, Safety & Institutional Trust (LVI-Peace)

Goal: reduce life loss and life fear; strengthen institutions.

Core Indicators

  • P1. Homicide rate / violent death rate

  • P2. Perceived safety (survey-based)

  • P3. Institutional trust index (survey-based; proxy: corruption perception or governance indicators)

  • P4. Conflict displacement / refugees (where applicable)

B8. Domain 8 — Intergenerational Sustainability (LVI-Next)

Goal: prevent the transfer of hidden life costs to future generations.

Core Indicators

  • N1. Child health and development proxy (stunting, low birthweight, or early childhood development index)

  • N2. Education investment adequacy (public education spend per child; or learning-adjusted years)

  • N3. Environmental debt proxy (ecological footprint gap, or climate adaptation finance gap)

C. Life Cost Accounting Addendum (AI-Enabled Extension)

To operationalize “AI × Economic Governance × Life Cost”, countries may pilot a Life Cost Ledger (LCL) that estimates and internalizes three categories of externalized costs:

  1. Health cost externalities (pollution-related morbidity, preventable hospitalizations)

  2. Care burden externalities (unpaid caregiver time, lost income, burnout-related health costs)

  3. Intergenerational externalities (future health and disaster costs attributable to current emissions/pollution)

Outputs

  • Adjusted Net Life Value (ANLV): macro output adjusted by life costs (a complement, not a replacement, for GDP).

  • Policy Life ROI: life outcomes gained per unit of public spending.

D. Disaggregation and Equity Requirements

Minimum disaggregation standard (where feasible):

  • Sex, age cohort, disability status

  • Income/wealth quintile, education level

  • Geography (urban/rural; subnational regions)

  • Migration status (where relevant)

Equity rule:
Every domain index should include a gap metric (best-off vs worst-off) alongside the national average.

E. Governance, Reporting, and Review Cycle

E1. Reporting Cadence

  • Annual LVI dashboard update (Tier 1 indicators)

  • Biennial deep review (Tier 2 indicators + Life Cost Ledger pilots)

E2. Institutional Arrangements

  • National statistical office + health and social ministries as joint owners

  • Multi-stakeholder review panel (civil society, academia, private sector)

  • Independent audit of methodology and data integrity

E3. Policy Use

  • Budget tagging for “Life Value investments” (prevention, care capacity, education equity, green health)

  • Program evaluation: require LVI impact statement for major reforms

F. Template: LVI Indicator Registry (for Country Annex)

Countries may adopt the following registry format for each indicator:

  • Indicator name / code

  • Definition

  • Unit

  • Baseline (year)

  • Target (year)

  • Data source (national system / UN source)

  • Disaggregation

  • Policy levers (what moves the indicator)

  • Quality notes (limitations, frequency)

G. Short Form “Principals Dashboard” (6 Headline Measures)

For high-level oversight, a minimal dashboard can track:

  1. HALE (Healthy life expectancy)

  2. Catastrophic health expenditure incidence

  3. LTC coverage + caregiver burden (paired)

  4. PM2.5 exposure

  5. Inequality (Palma or Gini) + poverty rate

  6. Youth NEET + learning proficiency

Optional: Chinese Titles for Official Bilingual Annex Layout

  • 生命價值指標（LVI）—監測框架

  • LVI-H 健康與生存

  • LVI-Care 高齡照護與社會保護

  • LVI-Time 生命時間主權

  • LVI-Equity 不平等與流動性

  • LVI-Green 綠色生命支持系統

  • LVI-Peace 和平、安全與制度信任

  • LVI-Next 次世代永續