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Zoological Society of London (Indicators & Assessments Unit) and WWF International

Living Planet Index

Average relative change in the size of monitored vertebrate wildlife populations since 1970 (index, 1970 = 1), with 95% confidence limits: global, terrestrial, freshwater and marine, and for five IPBES regions. The 2024 edition covers 1970-2020 from 34,836 populations of 5,495 species, weighted by species richness and smoothed with a 3-year running average. It measures average population change, not the share of animals lost or a count of extinctions.

Reuse with credit, same licenceactiveDownloaded by hand

Numbers published from it

None yet: this source is registered and its licence checked, and its numbers are being prepared.

Licence and credit

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0 (published LPI trends)
What the terms say
“However, reproduction of the published Living Planet Index trends (e.g. the global, regional or system trends) is permitted under creative commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license”

From the producer's terms, checked 2026-10-04; re-checked automatically every week.

Credit we give
LPI {year}. Living Planet Index database. {year}. www.livingplanetindex.org. Downloaded on {date_accessed}. WWF (2024) Living Planet Report 2024 – A System in Peril. WWF, Gland, Switzerland. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notice
Use of these data does not constitute endorsement by ZSL or WWF of any derived products, reports or analyses.
Copy of the raw file
Allowed: we keep a public copy of every version we use.
Cite as
LPI {year}. Living Planet Index database. {year}. < www.livingplanetindex.org/>. Downloaded on {date_accessed}. WWF (2024) Living Planet Report 2024 – A System in Peril. WWF, Gland, Switzerland.

Files

  • Global LPI (Year, LPI_final, CI_low, CI_high, Description). A person opens https://www.livingplanetindex.org/latest_results in a web browser, leaves Trend on "Global", presses "Download" under "Download Data: Living Planet Report <edition>, WWF/ZSL", and records the saved Global.csv with `uv run envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index --file Global.csv`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Terrestrial system LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Terrestrial"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Freshwater system LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Freshwater"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Marine system LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Marine"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Africa (IPBES region) LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Africa"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Asia and the Pacific (IPBES region) LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Asia and the Pacific"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Europe and Central Asia (IPBES region) LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Europe and Central Asia"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • Latin America and Caribbean (IPBES region) LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "Latin America and Caribbean"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

  • North America (IPBES region) LPI. Same page and button with Trend set to "North America"; record the saved CSV with `envdash snapshot add --source living-planet-index`.

    Downloaded by hand (no stable direct link).

Status

Programme
The Living Planet Report 2026 is embargoed until 8 October 2026 (OWID ETL pull request 6922, "DO NOT MERGE before 2026-10-08"); until then the published trends are those of the 2024 report, data 1970-2020. Keep the 2024 vintage archived with its own citation after the switch. Not exposed to US federal programme cuts.
Updates
Every two years, with the Living Planet Report (October of even years)
Next release
2026-10-08: Living Planet Report 2026 and its LPI trends; embargo lifts on 8 October 2026.
Last check
Downloaded by hand (2026-10-05T11:04:20Z)