 2011 – The United Nations released the World Happiness Report

2011 – Canadian Index of Wellbeing Network (CIW Network) released The Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW).2011 – The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" published an article suggesting that western GDP economics is an incomplete development model and called for the adoption of Bhutan's GNH philosophy and Jones' GNH Index in Israel.2011 – Chuluun Togtokh criticized the HDI in an article published in "Nature", calling for a revised HDI, writing that "The revised index should include each nation's per capita carbon emissions, and so become a Human Sustainable Development Index (HSDI)."