Complexity Outlook Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: complexity-outlook-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Complexity Outlook Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	145	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	145	0
Complexity Outlook IndexcoiHeadline	The headline figure: Complexity Outlook Index (standardised; roughly −2.5 to +3).	Number · up to 3 decimals	-1.682Germany2.878Indiamiddle -0.225	143	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. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 30 years.

Not in this dataset · 80 places this site covers

Growth Lab at Harvard University 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 SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBelizeBermudaBhutanBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurundiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGambiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaIcelandIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLesothoLiechtensteinLuxembourgMacauMaldivesMaltaMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontenegroMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSurinameSyriaTimor-LesteTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Growth Lab at Harvard University

   atlas.hks.harvard.edu

2. 2 · Their file

   Complexity Outlook Index 2024

   13685109

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   30 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as complexity-outlook-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/complexity-outlook

The Growth Lab's International Trade Data (HS, 92) deposit on Harvard Dataverse, dedicated to the public domain. Only the economies the Growth Lab admits to its own rankings in each year are shown — those that meet its thresholds for trade volume, population and data quality.

• Charted

  Complexity Outlook Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Economy & Innovation

• Near neighbours

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