Living Planet Index
The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of the world's biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. The LPI was adopted by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) as an indicator of progress towards its 2011-2020 targets and it is now an indicator in ...
Living Planet Index
The Living Planet Index (LPI) is a measure of the state of global biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from around the world. It does this in much the same way that a stock market index tracks the value of a set of shares or a retail price index tracks the cost of a basket of consumer goods.
Living Planet Index
The Living Planet Index: 1970 to 2020. The bold line shows the index values and the shaded areas represent the statistical certainty surrounding the trend (95%). The index represents 34,836 populations of 5,495 species.
Living Planet Index
Download the data behind the Living Planet Index The Living Planet Database contains tens of thousands of vertebrate population time-series from around the world. It is the largest collection of its kind, and is publicly available, making it an invaluable tool for both research and conservation.
About the index - Living Planet Index
If you have data you would like to contribute to the Living Planet Database, please get in touch with us at LivingPlanetIndex (at) ioz.ac.uk. What does the LPI indicate? The headline trend from this Living Planet Report is that globally, monitored populations of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians have declined in abundance by 73% on ...
Living Planet Index
Explore the population trends stored within the Living Planet Index Database using the map and table below. This is the public version of the database and does not contain records which we are required to keep confidential. Here you can browse, search and view population data (by clicking 'View' in the table below).
Living Planet Index
Overall, fish are the most underrepresented group in the database, followed by reptiles. If you think you have data which could be used to address these gaps, please get in touch via our contribute or contact pages or email us at livingplanetindex@ioz.ac.uk.
Living Planet Index
Latham J, Collen B, McRae L, & Loh J. (2010) The Living Planet Index for Migratory Species: an index of change in population abundance. View publication Papers 2024
Living Planet Index
Indicators using the Living Planet Index database. The LPI database contains thousands of population time series for birds, mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians, which are gathered from a variety of sources such as journals, online databases and government reports.
Living Planet Index
Each indicator, including the LPI, comes with its own set of caveats and sensitivities, which have been described in the scientific literature. To ensure each iteration of the LPI is as robust as it can be, the index is stress-tested, as reported on the LPI website (www.livingplanetindex.org).