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CDI Structure

The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 40 of the world’s most powerful countries on policies that affect more than five billion people living in poorer nations. Because development is about more than foreign aid, the CDI covers eight distinct policy areas: Development Finance, Investment, Migration, Trade, Environment, Health, Security, and Technology. The CDI not only help citizens understand how their country’s policies help or harm global development; the rankings are also used by governments to identify key areas for improvement and compare themselves to their peers. Learn more by exploring the methodology.

Why Does Commitment to Development Matter?

In our integrated world, decisions made by the richest countries about their own policies and behaviour have repercussions for people in lower-income countries. At the same time, greater prosperity and security in poorer countries benefits the whole world. Global development creates new economic opportunities, increases innovation, and helps reduce risks posed by public health, security, and economic crises. The CDI looks at 40 of the world’s most powerful countries with and celebrates those with policies that benefit not only themselves, but also the development of others and the global common good.

• Methodology: Current and previous methodology documents, also for Finance for International Development (FID)

• CDI Analysis Tool: An interactive Excel workbook that allows users to look at rankings and scores for all components, indicators, and measures, and has the functionality to explore particular countries and groupings.

• Component Workbooks: All CDI 2021 Excel workbooks and supplementary calculations

• Academic Review Documents

• CDI Historical: All component workbooks and supplementary calculations and briefs from the past: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

• CDI Background papers: The Europe Beyond Aid papers as well as some others underpinning CDI rationale