World statistics, country by country

Governance & Institutions5

• 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 rest of this topic measures capacity.

• Government AI readinessOxford Insights · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Government capacity to adopt modern technology in public service delivery. Correlates 0.835 with Statistical Performance, inside the 0.92 bar, and kept because readiness to use data is not the same as the ability to collect it.

• Government effectivenessWorld Bank Group · 2024 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.

• Open Data InventoryOpen Data Watch · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether official statistics are published openly and usably, which is a separate question from whether they are produced at all.

• 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 & Innovation3

• 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.

• 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.

• Primary completion rateUIS · 2025 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether children who start school actually finish it — the other three keys measure access, an early start and money, and none of them says anyone completed anything.

• 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

• Dietary energy supplyFAO · 2024 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether the food supply covers what the population needs to eat.

• 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 · 2023 edition+

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

• 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

• Cereal yieldFAO · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: How much food a hectare of land produces: the clearest single measure of agricultural productivity.

• 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.

Environment & Sustainability3

• 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 inputs — a practice that reduces pressure, where the footprint measures the pressure itself. ⚠ A thin pairing: this topic gets stronger keys when carbon per capita and air quality are imported.

• Renewable electricityEmber · 2024 edition+

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

Gender & Equality3

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

  Why it is a key: The gap in real outcomes between women and men across health, empowerment and the labour market.

• 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 · 2024 edition+

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

Democracy & Civil Liberties3

• 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.

• Rule of lawWorld Bank Group · 2024 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 & Security3

• 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 · 2024 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.

Risk & Resilience3

• 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.

• Water stressFAO · 2023 edition+

  Why it is a key: Whether a country is taking more water than nature replaces — the one hazard in this subject it creates for itself rather than faces.

• 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 & Connectivity3

• 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.