ND-GAIN Country Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: nd-gain-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of ND-GAIN Country Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

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	1Norway190Chadmiddle 94	150	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	190	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	190	0
ND-GAIN Index (0–100)nd_gain_indexHeadline	The headline figure: ND-GAIN Index (0–100, where 100 is best placed to adapt).	Number · up to 13 decimals	26.4154Chad71.8486Norwaymiddle 47.4415	190	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.

The same 190 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 34 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 SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame

   gain.nd.edu

2. 2 · Their file

   ND-GAIN Country Index 2024

   resources-2026-14-07-13h00.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 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 nd-gain-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/nd-gain-index

Imported from ND-GAIN’s own download, the index file only. The same zip carries the 45 underlying indicators, which are other agencies’ data and are not republished here. The ranks are those ND-GAIN prints on its own ranking pages.

• Charted

  ND-GAIN Country Index by country

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

• Subjects

  • Risk & Resilience
  • Environment & Sustainability

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