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Productive Capacities Index

23 years, 2000–2022 · 195 countries · 9 measures

UNCTAD's Productive Capacities Index measures what a country has to produce goods and services with — its people's skills and health, natural resources, energy, transport and ICT, institutions, private sector and how far its economy has shifted toward higher-value activities — combined into one score from 1 to 100.

This site holds every year from 2000 to 2022, read from UNCTAD’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
Productive Capacities Index, 2022
Held
23 years · 4,428 rows
Licence
CC BY 3.0 IGO

0123 years

Every year

Every year comes from UNCTAD’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2000bar height: countries covered, up to 1952022
Every year of Productive Capacities Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Productive Capacities Index, 2022Newest195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2021195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2020195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2019195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2018195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2017195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2016195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2015195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2014195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2013195±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2012195+2September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2011193+1September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 23 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Productive Capacities Index, 2010192±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2009192±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2008192+2September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2007190±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2006190±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2005190±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2004190±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2003190+2September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2002188±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2001188±0September 29, 2026CSV
Productive Capacities Index, 2000188—September 29, 2026CSV

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

0212 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Productive Capacities Index (1–100)is built fromHuman capitalNatural capitalEnergyTransportInformation and communication technologyInstitutionsPrivate sectorStructural change

Every column in the newest file of Productive Capacities Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2022DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1950
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1950
Productive Capacities Index (1–100)pci_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: Productive Capacities Index (1–100).Number · up to 2 decimals17.80Somalia71.02Denmarkmiddle 46.671900
Human capitalhuman_capitalPart of the headlineHuman capital category: education, skills and health of the population, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals11.59Somalia98.30South Koreamiddle 43.691930
Natural capitalnatural_capitalPart of the headlineNatural capital category: the natural resources available to produce with, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals2.62Cayman Islands73.68Sierra Leonemiddle 35.691930
EnergyenergyPart of the headlineEnergy category: access to and supply of energy and its efficiency, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals7.73Niger100.00Singaporemiddle 57.491920
TransporttransportPart of the headlineTransport category: road, rail, air and maritime transport infrastructure and services, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals3.24Niger95.58Luxembourgmiddle 40.081930
Information and communication technologyictPart of the headlineInformation and communication technology category: telecoms infrastructure and use, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals13.94South Sudan97.76Hong Kongmiddle 56.171910
InstitutionsinstitutionsPart of the headlineInstitutions category: the quality of governance, regulation and the rule of law, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals8.82South Sudan96.19Denmarkmiddle 52.601940
Private sectorprivate_sectorPart of the headlinePrivate sector category: the ease of doing business, credit and the depth of the enterprise base, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals18.10South Sudan98.62Singaporemiddle 47.841920
Structural changestructural_changePart of the headlineStructural change category: how far the economy has moved toward higher-productivity sectors and more sophisticated exports, scored 1–100.Number · up to 2 decimals14.97Guinea-Bissau97.25United Statesmiddle 54.091900
UNCTAD footnotefootnoteLabelUNCTAD's flag on the overall index, where there is one: that half or more of its inputs were imputed, or that repeated runs of UNCTAD's model vary by more than a point.Text—2189

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.

03195 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Productive Capacities Index, by continent.
201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Africa525454545454545454545454
Americas383838383838383838383838
Asia494949494949494949494949
Europe414141414141414141414141
Oceania131313131313131313131313
All193195195195195195195195195195195195

The newest 12 of 23 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2012
    + Sudan+ South Sudan
  • 2011
    + Curaçao
  • 2008
    + Montenegro+ Serbia
  • 2003
    + Indonesia+ Timor-Leste

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Productive Capacities Index 2022

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    23 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as productive-capacities-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Read from UNCTAD's own US.PCI bulk file on UNCTADstat. UNCTAD's regional and group values are left out, and years in which UNCTAD flags most economies as imputed are not published. UNCTAD ranks nobody on it; the position is derived by this site.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY 3.0 IGO

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

A credit line

Source: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Productive Capacities Index, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Productive Capacities Index, 2000–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/productive-capacities-index

The publisher’s own citation: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Productive capacities index, annual (third generation). Geneva: UNCTAD Data Hub.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Productive Capacities Index: questions and answers

What is the Productive Capacities Index?

UNCTAD's Productive Capacities Index measures what a country has to produce goods and services with — its people's skills and health, natural resources, energy, transport and ICT, institutions, private sector and how far its economy has shifted toward higher-value activities — combined into one score from 1 to 100.

Which years of the Productive Capacities Index can I download?

All 23, from 2000 to 2022, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UNCTAD rank countries on it?

No. UNCTAD publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UNCTAD. The licence text is linked on this page.

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