Dataset · UNCTAD
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.
Productive Capacities Index · the file
- 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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Productive Capacities Index, 2022Newest | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2021 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2020 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2019 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2018 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2017 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2016 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2015 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2014 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2013 | 195 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2012 | 195 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2011 | 193 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 23 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Productive Capacities Index, 2010 | 192 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2009 | 192 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2008 | 192 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2007 | 190 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2006 | 190 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2005 | 190 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2004 | 190 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2003 | 190 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2002 | 188 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2001 | 188 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Productive Capacities Index, 2000 | 188 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
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
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2022 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 195 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 195 | 0 | |
Productive Capacities Index (1–100)pci_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: Productive Capacities Index (1–100). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 17.80 | 190 | 0 | |
Human capitalhuman_capitalPart of the headline | Human capital category: education, skills and health of the population, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 11.59 | 193 | 0 | |
Natural capitalnatural_capitalPart of the headline | Natural capital category: the natural resources available to produce with, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 2.62 | 193 | 0 | |
EnergyenergyPart of the headline | Energy category: access to and supply of energy and its efficiency, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 7.73 | 192 | 0 | |
TransporttransportPart of the headline | Transport category: road, rail, air and maritime transport infrastructure and services, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 3.24 | 193 | 0 | |
Information and communication technologyictPart of the headline | Information and communication technology category: telecoms infrastructure and use, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 13.94 | 191 | 0 | |
InstitutionsinstitutionsPart of the headline | Institutions category: the quality of governance, regulation and the rule of law, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 8.82 | 194 | 0 | |
Private sectorprivate_sectorPart of the headline | Private sector category: the ease of doing business, credit and the depth of the enterprise base, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 18.10 | 192 | 0 | |
Structural changestructural_changePart of the headline | Structural change category: how far the economy has moved toward higher-productivity sectors and more sophisticated exports, scored 1–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 14.97 | 190 | 0 | |
UNCTAD footnotefootnoteLabel | UNCTAD'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 | — | 2 | 189 |
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.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 52 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Asia | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 |
| Europe | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 |
| Oceania | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| All | 193 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 | 195 |
The newest 12 of 23 years.
Who joined and who left
Not in this dataset · 30 places this site covers
UNCTAD 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
2 · Their file
Productive Capacities Index 2022
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.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.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- 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.
Charted
Productive Capacities Index by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Human Development IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 34 held · 1990–2023
- Maternal Mortality RatioMMEIG · 24 held · 2000–2023
- Social Protection CoverageILO · 1 held · 2025
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.