Economic Complexity Index

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

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

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	Growth Lab at Harvard University’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Japan145Chadmiddle 73	145	0
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
ECI scoreeci_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: ECI score (standardised, roughly −3 to +3).	Number · up to 3 decimals	-3.530Chad1.729Japanmiddle 0.131	142	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.

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

   Economic Complexity Index 2024

   13439575

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 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 economic-complexity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/economic-complexityA key for Economy & Innovation in the Country Index.

The Growth Lab's Harvard Dataverse deposit, version 12.0, on the HS92 trade classification. The rank shown is the Growth Lab's own.