Regional view
Northern Ireland Dashboard
UK Societal Resilience · October 2026
A stress reading from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress; 0 is calm, 100 is the most severe reading the scale describes.
robust range 48–55 under alternative methods
A single measured reading across eleven national systems. The United Kingdom is fragile, and has held steady since the previous release.
Medium · 41 of 42 indicators verified
Release movements
What changed this release
Since the September 2026 release
11 of 41 comparable indicators had a real change in their inputs since the September 2026 release.
- New observations
- 7
- the publisher released a later period
- Revised values
- 4
- the same period, a changed figure
- Restated series
- 5
- an earlier point in the history changed
- Changed sources
- 7
- a different series, provider or link
- Normalisation changes
- 1
- scored against fixed bounds instead of own history, or the reverse
An indicator can appear in more than one category. Counts cover scored indicators present in both releases.
Key deteriorations
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trust in national governmentnew observation, source changed | Trust and Wellbeing | 78 | +31 pts | 0.70 |
| Anxietynew observation, source changed | Trust and Wellbeing | 80 | +7 pts | 0.85 |
| NI patients waiting over 52 weeks (inpatient)new observation, source changed | Public Service Capacity | 48 | +6 pts | 0.80 |
| NI young people NEET (16–24)new observation, source changed | Childhood and Social Floor | 63 | +5 pts | 0.75 |
| Public sector net borrowingvalue revised, history restated | Fiscal Resilience | 25 | +2 pts | 0.90 |
Change since the September 2026 release. Only indicators whose inputs changed since that release are listed: a new observation, a revised value, a restated series or a changed source.
Key improvements
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI 62-day cancer treatmentnew observation, history restated, source changed, normalisation changed | Public Service Capacity | 46 | −35 pts | 0.85 |
| Public sector net investmentvalue revised, history restated | Fiscal Resilience | 16 | −14 pts | 0.85 |
| Life satisfactionnew observation, source changed | Trust and Wellbeing | 60 | −1 pts | 0.85 |
Change since the September 2026 release. Only indicators whose inputs changed since that release are listed: a new observation, a revised value, a restated series or a changed source.
Scores are stress readings out of 100; higher means more stress. Most indicators update annually or quarterly, so a large movement usually marks a new official release entering the index, not a change that happened within the month.
Northern Ireland · measured
11 systems under review, Northern Ireland
Each figure is a stress score from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress, so the most stressed systems sit at the top.
Rows link to the UK-level detail page (per-region detail is a later phase). Scores shown are Northern Ireland-specific.
The tick beside each score is its movement since the September 2026 release.
Weighting
What drives the headline figure
The headline is a weighted reading across all systems. This shows which carry the most weight once their stress score and domain weight are combined.
Historical trajectory
Northern Ireland stress over time
Concurrent stress
Domains at extreme stress
2 domains are scoring 75 or above in this release. This is reported as a signal and does not change the national score. The index measures each domain separately and holds no model of how a failure in one would propagate to another, so it cannot say what concurrent strain costs; it can only say that it is present.
Domains at or above 75
The monthly reading
Follow the number over time
A single reading is a snapshot. The value is in the direction of travel. Once a month we send the new national score, what moved, and the sharpest findings from the data, with every figure traceable to its official source.
Data provenance
41 of 42 indicators are drawn from verified official sources, each labelled on its metric card. The remaining 1 is a provisional placeholder, marked as seed where they appear, because no clean official figure is published yet; placeholders are shown for transparency and are excluded from all scoring.