World statistics, country by country

Governance & Institutions4

• Corruption Perceptions IndexTransparency International · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much corruption the people who actually deal with a government perceive — an outcome, where the other keys measure the state’s capacity and the limits the law puts on it.

• Government effectivenessWorld Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: The quality of public services and the civil service that delivers them, and the credibility of a government's commitment to its own policies. Where the Corruption Perceptions Index asks whether a state is honest, this asks whether it is competent.

• Judicial constraints on the executiveV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether the executive respects the constitution and obeys the courts, and whether the courts can rule against it freely — the law binding those who write it.

• Statistical performanceWorld Bank Group · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a state can measure its own country. Nothing else here tests the capacity of the statistical system itself.

Economy & Innovation4

• Account ownershipWorld Bank Group · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether ordinary adults are inside the financial system at all, which output per person does not reveal.

• Economic Complexity IndexGrowth Lab at Harvard University · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: What an economy knows how to make, read from the diversity and rarity of what it exports.

• Firms with a bank loanWorld Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether businesses can borrow from the formal financial system — the firm-level counterpart to adults holding a bank account.

• GDP per capita (PPP)World Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Output per person: the standard measure of an economy's size set against the population it has to support.

Work & Labour4

• Employment-to-population ratioILO · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of the working-age population is actually in work — the half of the picture unemployment hides, because people who stop looking stop being counted.

• Labour income shareILO · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of national income reaches workers rather than owners of capital.

• Unemployment rateILO · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: The share of people looking for work who cannot find it.

• Vulnerable employmentILO · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much work is own-account or unpaid family labour, carrying no contract and no protection.

Education & Knowledge4

• Government spending on educationUIS · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: What a state chooses to spend on education, as a share of its economy — the input, where the other two keys measure reach.

• Out-of-school rate (primary)UIS · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Primary-age children who are not in school at all: the floor of an education system.

• Early learning participationUIS · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether children take part in organised learning in the year before primary school — whether an education system reaches them before it starts.

• Upper secondary completion rateUIS · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How far a schooling system carries the young people who get through primary — the only key here that measures anything past childhood.

Health & Wellbeing4

• Life expectancyUN DESA Population Division · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How long people actually live — the one measure of adult health on this site. Child mortality, which it correlates with, is a measure of a health system's reach in the first five years; this is the whole span.

• Severe food insecurityFAO · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: The share of people who went without food, established by asking them rather than by modelling the supply.

• Child stuntingUNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates) · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Children under five who are too short for their age — the mark chronic undernutrition leaves on a body, which says what early deprivation did rather than how many died of it.

• Under-five mortality rateUN IGME · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Deaths before a fifth birthday, the most widely used summary of whether a health system reaches people.

Development & Human Capital3

• Human Development IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: The standard composite of health, schooling and income, carrying UNDP's own published rank.

• Maternal mortality ratioMMEIG · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a woman survives giving birth — the reach of a health system at the moment it is hardest to fake.

• Social protection coverageILO · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: The share of people covered by at least one social protection benefit: whether the state catches anybody when they fall.

Environment & Sustainability4

• CO₂ emissions per personGlobal Carbon Project · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much carbon dioxide a country's own fuel burning puts into the air for each person living there.

• Ecological footprintGlobal Footprint Network · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of the planet's biological capacity a country's own consumption uses up.

• Organic farmlandFAO · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Farmland managed without synthetic fertiliser or pesticide — how far a country's farms have moved toward cleaner practice.

• Water stressFAO · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a country withdraws more freshwater than nature replaces: the one pressure in this subject a country creates for itself rather than faces.

Gender & Equality4

• Firms with a female top managerWorld Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: The share of firms whose top manager is a woman: economic power held, beside the political power and the legal and social rules the other keys in this subject measure.

• Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: Discrimination in social institutions and norms. Correlates 0.850 with Women, Business and the Law, inside the 0.92 bar, and kept because law and custom diverge widely.

• Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 2026 edition+

  Why it is a key: The gap written into the statute book, which a country can close while outcomes lag for a generation.

• Women's political empowermentV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Political power held by women in practice — their civil liberties, their part in civil society and their share of political office — where the law and custom keys measure the rules they live under.

Democracy & Civil Liberties4

• Civic spaceCIVICUS · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether people can assemble, organise and speak in practice this year. Correlates 0.915 with V-Dem, just inside the 0.92 bar, and kept because a country can hold real elections while closing civic space between them.

• Electoral integrityEIP · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a country's most recent national election was conducted with integrity, from the electoral laws and boundaries to the count, as election experts judged it — the subject's first question, whether elections are genuine.

• Rule of lawWorld Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether the law binds those who write it — contract enforcement, property rights, the police and the courts. Where the other two keys measure who holds power and what people may do, this measures whether power itself is bound by rules.

• Electoral democracyV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Regime type as assessed by scholars: whether elections are genuine and whether rulers can be removed by them.

Peace & Security4

• Global Militarisation IndexBICC · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of a country's resources sit with its military rather than its hospitals and schools, comparing spending, personnel and heavy weapons against health provision. Correlates 0.02 with political stability: a heavily armed country and an unstable one are genuinely different things, which is why the topic needs both.

• Physical Violence IndexV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether the state kills or tortures the people it governs.

• Political stabilityWorld Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a country is at risk of violent upheaval — politically motivated violence, terrorism and the threat of destabilisation. It is the closest measure this site has to whether a state is at peace with itself.

• Political violence by non-state actorsV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Violence used for political ends by groups outside the state — militias, armed party wings and insurgents — the other side of the state violence that Physical Violence measures.

Risk & Resilience4

• Emergency fundsWorld Bank Group · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether ordinary households could find money for an emergency within a month — the coping capacity of people themselves, where the other keys measure hazards and the state's readiness to meet them.

• Climate vulnerabilityNotre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How exposed and sensitive a country’s food, water, health, ecosystems, housing and infrastructure are to a changing climate, set against its capacity to adapt — the slow-onset climate risk the hazard and crisis indices do not isolate.

• INFORM Risk IndexEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee · 2026 edition+

  Why it is a key: Humanitarian crisis risk, which counts conflict and displacement that the hazard indices leave out. Correlates 0.468 with the World Risk Index.

• World Risk IndexInstitute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Exposure to natural hazards set against the capacity a country has to cope with them.

Mobility & Trade4

• Container import dwell timeWorld Bank Group · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How long an imported container waits in port before it moves on — a measured, not surveyed, reading of how efficiently ports, customs and carriers let goods cross a border.

• ICT goods exportsUNCTAD · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How far a country is plugged into global technology trade.

• Liner Shipping Connectivity IndexUNCTAD · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of the world's container shipping actually calls at a country's ports — the infrastructure side of connectedness, where logistics performance is the paperwork side.

• Logistics Performance IndexWorld Bank Group · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How efficiently goods actually cross a country's borders, ports and customs.

Food & Agriculture4

• Agriculture orientation indexFAO · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much public spending agriculture attracts set against the share of the economy it produces — whether a state invests in its farms or lives off them.

• Cereal yieldFAO · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much food a hectare of land produces: the clearest single measure of how productively a country farms.

• Dietary energy supplyFAO · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether the food a country produces and imports covers what its population needs to eat, measured before anyone has eaten it.

• Sustainable agriculture scoreFAO · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How productive and how sustainable a country's farming is at once — output, inputs, water, emissions and farm work scored together, which is what it takes to grow food rather than how much is grown.

Poverty & Inequality3

• Gini indexWorld Bank Group · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How evenly income or consumption is shared across a whole population — the distance between rich and poor that an average income cannot show.

• Poverty gap ($3.00 a day)World Bank Group · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How far below the $3.00-a-day extreme poverty line people fall, averaged over the whole population — how many are poor and how poor they are, in one reading.

• Unable to afford a healthy dietFAO · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: The share of people whose income cannot buy the cheapest healthy diet available where they live — a poverty line priced in food rather than in dollars.

Energy3

• Carbon intensity of electricityEmber · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much greenhouse gas a country's power stations emit for every unit of electricity they produce.

• Renewable electricityEmber · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of the electricity a country generates already comes from renewable sources.

• World Energy Trilemma IndexWorld Energy Council · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How a country's energy system balances security of supply, affordability and environmental impact — three pressures that trade off against one another.

Digital & Technology4

• Digitally-deliverable services exportsUNCTAD · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much of what a country sells abroad in services is delivered over networks — software, finance, telecoms and professional services — its place in the world’s digital trade.

• Government AI readinessOxford Insights · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a government is equipped to use modern technology in what it does — its data, its skills and its rules.

• Government cyber security capacityV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether the state has the skilled people and resources to defend its own systems against cyber attack — the security side of a government's readiness to use technology, which the AI and GovTech readiness measures leave out.

• GovTech maturityWorld Bank Group · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: How far a state has actually got with digital government — the systems it runs and the services it delivers, where AI readiness measures what it is equipped to adopt next.