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Dataset · ND-GAIN
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN)
30 years, 1995–2024 · 192 countries
ND-GAIN’s Readiness score measures how able a country is to turn investment into adaptation to climate change — through its economy, its governance and its social conditions — on a scale from 0 to 1, where higher is more ready. It is one of the two halves of the ND-GAIN Country Index.
This site holds every year from 1995 to 2024, read from ND-GAIN’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN) · the file
- Newest
- Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2024
- Held
- 30 years · 5,760 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
0130 years
Every year
Every year comes from ND-GAIN’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2024Newest | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2023 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2022 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2021 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2020 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2019 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2018 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2017 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2016 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2015 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2014 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2013 | 192 | ±0 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 30 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: climate-readiness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank | ND-GAIN’s own rank, exactly as printed. | Number · whole numbers | 1 Singapore192 Central African Republicmiddle 97 | 162 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 192 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 192 | 0 | |
Readiness (0–1)readinessHeadline | The headline figure: ND-GAIN Readiness (0–1, where 1 is the most ready). | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.13683Central African Republic0.74947Singaporemiddle 0.38733 | 192 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03192 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 |
| Americas | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Asia | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| Europe | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| Oceania | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| All | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 | 192 |
The newest 12 of 30 years.
The same 192 countries in every year.
Not in this dataset · 32 places this site covers
ND-GAIN gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Macau
Montserrat
New Caledonia
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
Palestine
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Sint MaartenSomaliland
South Sudan
Taiwan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame
2 · Their file
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN) 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
30 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as climate-readiness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Imported from ND-GAIN’s own download, the readiness file only. The economic, governance and social components and the underlying indicators are not republished; the latter are other agencies’ data. The ranks are those ND-GAIN prints on its own ranking page.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame. Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 1995–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/climate-readiness
The publisher’s own citation: University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative. ND-GAIN Country Index, 2026 release — Readiness. Method: Chen, C., Noble, I., Hellmann, J., Coffee, J., Murillo, M. and Chawla, N. (2015). University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index: Country Index Technical Report. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN) by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)ND-GAIN · 30 held · 1995–2024
- World Risk IndexIFHV · 26 held · 2000–2025
- INFORM Risk IndexEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre · 10 held · 2017–2026
07Questions
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN): questions and answers
What is the Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN)?
ND-GAIN’s Readiness score measures how able a country is to turn investment into adaptation to climate change — through its economy, its governance and its social conditions — on a scale from 0 to 1, where higher is more ready. It is one of the two halves of the ND-GAIN Country Index.
Which years of the Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN) can I download?
All 30, from 1995 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does ND-GAIN rank countries on it?
Yes. The rank in these files is ND-GAIN’s own, exactly as printed.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 Unported, with credit to ND-GAIN. The licence text is linked on this page.