The Youth Development Index (YDI), recently created in Brazil to measure the living conditions of young people, was launched at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris earlier this week. The index includes data on education (literacy rates, the number of youth in high school or higher education and the quality of teaching); health (mortality rates) and income (based on family per-capita income). "It will serve as an instrument for countries to evaluate the needs of improvement for the livelihoods of their youth,” explains Director of UNESCO Brasilia, Jorge Werthein.