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Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2009

2009, as ND-GAIN’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2009 covers 192 countries. New Zealand is highest, at 0.79944; Central African Republic is lowest, at 0.16969. The middle country reads 0.38812. Against 2008, 192 values changed (97 up, 95 down), the same countries are covered.

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Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN) · Data for 2009

HighestNew Zealand

0.79944

LowestCentral African Republic

0.16969

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01ND-GAIN’s rank

The table

Every country and every column of Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2009, as published. The rank is ND-GAIN’s own, as printed. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2009: every country, as published by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame.
1New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.79944
2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.79650
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.79061
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.78786
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.78711
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.77219
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.76720
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.74678
=9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.72550
=9GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.72588
11United StatesUSANorthern America0.72228
12South KoreaKOREastern Asia0.71643
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.71196
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.70440
15CanadaCANNorthern America0.70054
16JapanJPNEastern Asia0.68885
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.68334
18FranceFRAWestern Europe0.67141
19San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe0.65684
20LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.65353
21MonacoMCOWestern Europe0.64448
22EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.64160
23LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe0.63451
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe0.62779
25IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.61995

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. #1New Zealand0.79944
  2. #2Denmark0.79650
  3. #3Finland0.79061
  4. #4Iceland0.78786
  5. #5Norway0.78711

Lowest

  1. #192Central African Republic0.16969
  2. #191Zimbabwe0.17715
  3. #190Myanmar0.17966
  4. #189DR Congo0.18169
  5. #188Chad0.19328

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.38812. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 192 in both
  • 97 · 95rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Monaco0.72989 → 0.64448−0.08541
  • Iran0.39139 → 0.36042−0.03097
  • Russia0.45872 → 0.43751−0.02121
  • Moldova0.40977 → 0.38996−0.01981
  • Madagascar0.30742 → 0.28863−0.01879

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from ND-GAIN’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2009.

  • The rank is ND-GAIN’s

    Printed as the publisher ranked the countries; never re-ranked here.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 192 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 Unported · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame (2009). Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN), 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/climate-readiness/2009

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