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216 statistics · 39 publishers · data from 1950
World statistics, country by country
What does the world measure about itself, and who measures it?
Nations Inquiry holds 216 statistics from 39 publishers — 6,665 editions in all, the oldest describing 1950. 55 of them decide the Country Index 2026; the other 161 are published as context, with no vote. 14 carry a rank their publisher printed, 162 a position this site derives, and 40 values only.
Statistic of the dayUNCTAD
ICT goods exportsWhat share of a country's goods exports are computers, telecoms and electronics?
61.45%
highest of 120 · 2024
A different statistic every day; all 114 in turn.
0118 subjects
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Every statistic belongs to one or more subjects, so the counts add up to more than the total. The keys are the statistics that decide each topic’s standing in the Country Index.
- Economy & Innovation
44 statistics · 4 keys
Keys: Account ownership · Economic Complexity Index · Firms with a bank loan · GDP per capita (PPP)
Show all 44 ↓ - Work & Labour
22 statistics · 4 keys
Keys: Employment-to-population ratio · Labour income share · Unemployment rate · Vulnerable employment
Show all 22 ↓ - Education & Knowledge
26 statistics · 4 keys
Keys: Government spending on education · Out-of-school rate (primary) · Upper secondary completion rate · Youth literacy rate
Show all 26 ↓ - Health & Wellbeing
24 statistics · 4 keys
Keys: Life expectancy · Severe food insecurity · Child stunting · Under-five mortality rate
Show all 24 ↓ - Development & Human Capital
34 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: Human Development Index · Maternal mortality ratio · Social protection coverage
Show all 34 ↓ - Environment & Sustainability
28 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: CO₂ emissions per person · Ecological footprint · Water stress
Show all 28 ↓ - Democracy & Civil Liberties
17 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: Civic space · Rule of law · Electoral democracy
Show all 17 ↓ - Peace & Security
10 statistics · 4 keys
Keys: Global Militarisation Index · Physical Violence Index · Political stability · Political violence by non-state actors
Show all 10 ↓ - Risk & Resilience
14 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: Climate vulnerability · INFORM Risk Index · World Risk Index
Show all 14 ↓ - Mobility & Trade
18 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: ICT goods exports · Liner Shipping Connectivity Index · Logistics Performance Index
Show all 18 ↓ - Food & Agriculture
22 statistics · 4 keys
Keys: Agriculture orientation index · Cereal yield · Dietary energy supply · Organic farmland
Show all 22 ↓ - Energy
13 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: Carbon intensity of electricity · Renewable electricity · World Energy Trilemma Index
Show all 13 ↓ - Digital & Technology
8 statistics · 3 keys
Keys: Digitally-deliverable services exports · Government AI readiness · GovTech maturity
Show all 8 ↓
02Most looked-up
Eight statistics people search for
Each with the country at its first-listed end, and its line over recent editions. A statistic with no better end shows a flag rather than a photograph.
Human Development IndexKey
Iceland0.972
Highest of 193 · HDI score (0–1)
UNDP Human Development Report Office · data for 2023
Photo: Hansueli Krapf · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
GDP per capita (PPP)Key
Singapore139,593
Highest of 185 · GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP)
World Bank Group · data for 2025
Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
Life expectancyKey
Monaco86.372
Highest of 222 · Years a newborn would live at current death rates
UN DESA Population Division · data for 2023
Photo: Martin Weber derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Corruption Perceptions IndexKey
Denmark89
Highest of 182 · CPI score (0–100, where 100 is very clean)
Transparency International · data for 2025
Photo: User:Aconcagua · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Under-five mortality rateKey
San Marino1.260
Lowest of 200 · Deaths before age five (per 1,000 live births)
UN IGME · data for 2024
Photo: Matl derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Population
India1,438,069,596
Highest of 222 · Total population, mid-year (people)
UN DESA Population Division · data for 2023
Global Innovation Index
Switzerland65.962
Highest of 139 · GII score (0–100)
World Intellectual Property Organization · data for 2025
Photo: Simon Koopmann derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 2.0 de, greyscale
Gini indexKey
India23.00
Lowest of 60 · Gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)
World Bank Group · data for 2023
Photo: Kumaravels derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי · CC BY 2.5 in, greyscale
03Every statistic has a map
The world, statistic by statistic
Countries shaded by value, in five groups of the same size. Choose one of the featured statistics, or any other from the list.
Human Development Index, 2023Every country on Human Development Index
Darker is a higher value, the better end.
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04Country Index 2026
The 55 statistics that decide the Country Index
Each votes in one topic, for the reason given in its row. The other 161 statistics are published in full as context and have no vote.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Youth literacy rateUIS · 2024 edition
Why it is a key: Whether 15- to 24-year-olds can read and write — the only key here that tests what a schooling system produced, rather than how many passed through it or what it cost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 · 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.
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.
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 · 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Organic farmlandFAO · 2024 edition
Why it is a key: Farmland managed without synthetic fertiliser or pesticide — how a country farms, set beside how much it grows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
05In records
The collection in records
Facts about the statistics themselves: how far back they go, how much of the world they cover, and how fresh they are.
The longest series
16 statistics
1950–2024
75 years of readings
The widest coverage
15 statistics
222
countries and territories in one edition
The most countries sharing the top value
Deaths in organised violence
138
countries at 0 — so no leader is named
The newest data
Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
2026
77 statistics describe 2025 or later
The largest publisher here
World Bank Group
58
statistics, 13 of them Country Index keys
One edition so far
New series to watch
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statistics with a single edition — the next one adds a trend
06All 216
Every statistic
Search by name, publisher or keyword; filter by topic, publisher or kind of ordering; sort by coverage or age. “Publisher’s rank” is a rank the publisher printed; “Position · derived” is an order this site made from the published values.
Showing 25 of 216
- Academic freedomEducation & Knowledge · Democracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derived
Czechia - Access to electricityEnergy · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group215 countries1990–202435 editionsValues only122 share the highest value
- World Bank Group139 countries2011–20245 editionsPosition · derivedIceland
- Acute food insecurityRisk & Resilience · Health & Wellbeing · Food & AgricultureFSIN44 countries2016–20249 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: El Salvador - Adjusted net savingsEnvironment & Sustainability · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group118 countries1990–202132 editionsPosition · derived
Bangladesh - Adult literacy rateEducation & KnowledgeUIS172 countries20241 editionPosition · derived2 share the highest value
- Agricultural emissionsEnvironment & Sustainability · Food & AgricultureFAO198 countries1990–202334 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: India
- Agricultural landFood & Agriculture · Environment & SustainabilityFAO209 countries1961–202363 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Côte d’Ivoire - FAO132 countries2001–202424 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Agriculture share of GDPFood & Agriculture · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group158 countries1975–202551 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Niger - Arable land per personFood & Agriculture · Environment & SustainabilityFAO206 countries1961–202363 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Kazakhstan - Asylum-seekersMobility & Trade · Risk & ResilienceUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency177 countries2000–202526 editionsValues only
Highest: United States - Birth ratePeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues only
Highest: Central African Republic - Birth registrationGovernance & Institutions · Development & Human CapitalUNICEF185 countries20251 editionValues only52 share the highest value
- Births attended by skilled staffHealth & Wellbeing · Gender & EqualityUNICEF86 countries1995–201923 editionsPosition · derived11 share the highest value
- Business Ready: operational efficiencyEconomy & Innovation · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group50 countries20241 editionPosition · derivedSingapore
- Business Ready: public servicesEconomy & Innovation · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group50 countries20241 editionPosition · derived
Estonia - Business Ready: regulatory frameworkEconomy & Innovation · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group50 countries20241 editionPosition · derived
Hungary - Ember193 countries2000–202425 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Ethiopia - Central bank independenceMoney & Public Finance · Governance & InstitutionsAna Carolina Garriga, University of Essex191 countries1970–202354 editionsValues only
Highest: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Cereal import dependencyFood & Agriculture · Mobility & TradeFAO161 countries2001–202222 editionsValues only16 share the highest value
- FAO179 countries1961–202363 editionsPosition · derived
Oman - Child marriageGender & Equality · Development & Human CapitalUNICEF145 countries20251 editionPosition · derived3 share the lowest value
- UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates)162 countries20241 editionPosition · derived
Lowest: Latvia - Children with functional difficultiesHealth & Wellbeing · Development & Human CapitalUNICEF62 countries20241 editionValues only
Highest: Afghanistan - CIVICUS198 countries20251 editionPosition · derived
Kiribati - Climate adaptation readinessRisk & Resilience · Governance & InstitutionsNotre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame192 countries1995–202430 editionsPublisher’s rankSingapore
- Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame190 countries1995–202430 editionsPublisher’s rank
Lowest: Norway - Global Carbon Project210 countries1950–202475 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: DR Congo - Coefficient of human inequalityPoverty & Inequality · Development & Human CapitalUNDP Human Development Report Office169 countries2010–202314 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Slovenia - Container port trafficMobility & Trade · Economy & InnovationUNCTAD103 countries2010–202415 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: China - Control of corruptionGovernance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group211 countries1996–202527 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- Transparency International182 countries2012–202514 editionsPublisher’s rankDenmark
- Cost of sending remittancesMobility & Trade · Money & Public FinanceWorld Bank Group93 countries2016–20238 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Malawi - Crop production indexFood & Agriculture · Economy & InnovationFAO195 countries1961–202262 editionsPosition · derived
Senegal - Death ratePeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues only
Highest: Vatican City - Deaths in organised violencePeace & SecurityUCDP196 countries1989–202537 editionsPosition · derived138 share the lowest value
- Deliberative democracyDemocracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- Dependency ratioPeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Central African Republic
- Development aid receivedMoney & Public Finance · Development & Human CapitalOECD Development Assistance Committee130 countries1966–202358 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Tuvalu - FAO155 countries2001–202424 editionsPosition · derivedUnited States
- Digitally-deliverable services exportsKeyDigital & Technology · Economy & Innovation · Mobility & TradeUNCTAD170 countries2010–202415 editionsPosition · derived
Ireland - Disaster displacementRisk & Resilience · Environment & SustainabilityIDMC160 countries2008–202417 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Serbia - Global Footprint Network126 countries1961–202565 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Yemen - Growth Lab at Harvard University145 countries1995–202430 editionsPublisher’s rank
Japan - Egalitarian democracyDemocracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- Employment in agricultureWork & Labour · Food & AgricultureILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Burundi - Employment in industryWork & LabourILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Oman
- Employment in servicesWork & LabourILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Djibouti - ILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derived
Qatar - Energy intensityEnergy · Environment & SustainabilityEIA192 countries1988–202437 editionsValues only
Lowest: Chad - Exclusive breastfeedingHealth & Wellbeing · Development & Human CapitalUNICEF136 countries20241 editionPosition · derivedBurundi
- Expected years of schoolingEducation & Knowledge · Development & Human CapitalUNDP Human Development Report Office195 countries1990–202334 editionsPosition · derivedMonaco
- Exports as a share of GDPMobility & Trade · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group138 countries1970–202556 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Hong Kong - External debtMoney & Public Finance · Economy & Innovation · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group110 countries1981–202444 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Iran - External debt serviceMoney & Public Finance · Economy & Innovation · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group109 countries1982–202443 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Iran
- Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day)Poverty & Inequality · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derived3 share the lowest value
- Farming’s share of water useEnvironment & Sustainability · Food & AgricultureFAO173 countries1990–202233 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Somalia - Fatal occupational injuriesWork & Labour · Health & WellbeingILO52 countries2000–202323 editionsValues only
Lowest: Belgium - Female genital mutilationGender & Equality · Health & WellbeingUNICEF31 countries20241 editionValues only
Lowest: Uganda - Female labour force participationWork & Labour · Gender & EqualityILO182 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derived
Madagascar - Fertiliser useFood & Agriculture · Environment & SustainabilityFAO191 countries1961–202363 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Malaysia - Fertility ratePeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Somalia
- World Bank Group179 countries20251 editionPosition · derived
Israel - World Bank Group179 countries20251 editionPosition · derivedKiribati
- Food production indexFood & Agriculture · Economy & InnovationFAO195 countries1961–202262 editionsPosition · derivedSenegal
- Foreign direct investment inflowsMoney & Public Finance · Economy & InnovationUNCTAD202 countries1990–202536 editionsValues only
Highest: British Virgin Islands - Forest areaEnvironment & SustainabilityFAO213 countries1990–202334 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Suriname - Freedom of expressionDemocracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- GDP growthEconomy & InnovationWorld Bank Group186 countries1961–202565 editionsPosition · derived
Guyana - World Bank Group185 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- GDP per person employedWork & LabourWorld Bank Group168 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derived
Luxembourg - Gender Development IndexGender & Equality · Development & Human CapitalUNDP Human Development Report Office184 countries1990–202334 editionsPosition · derived2 share the closest to parity value
- Gender Inequality IndexGender & Equality · Development & Human Capital · Health & WellbeingUNDP Human Development Report Office172 countries1990–202334 editionsPublisher’s rankLowest: Denmark
- Gender Social Norms IndexGender & EqualityUNDP Human Development Report Office91 countries20231 editionPosition · derived
Lowest: New Zealand - World Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: India
- Global Innovation IndexEconomy & InnovationWorld Intellectual Property Organization139 countries2022–20254 editionsPublisher’s rankSwitzerland
- BICC149 countries1990–202334 editionsPublisher’s rank
Lowest: Haiti - GNI per capita (PPP)Economy & Innovation · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group102 countries1994–202532 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Oxford Insights195 countries2020–20256 editionsPublisher’s rankUnited States
- Government consumptionMoney & Public Finance · Governance & Institutions · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group132 countries1970–202556 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Ukraine - World Bank Group209 countries1996–202527 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Government funding per primary studentEducation & Knowledge · Governance & InstitutionsUIS68 countries1999–202224 editionsPosition · derived
South Korea - UIS123 countries1971–202351 editionsPosition · derivedKiribati
- World Bank Group196 countries2022–20252 editionsPosition · derivedSouth Korea
- Gross savingsMoney & Public Finance · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group146 countries1978–202447 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Macau - Harmonized test scoresEducation & KnowledgeWorld Bank Group172 countries2010–20204 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Household consumptionMoney & Public Finance · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group131 countries1970–202556 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Somalia
- Human Capital IndexDevelopment & Human Capital · Health & WellbeingWorld Bank Group172 countries2010–20204 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- UNDP Human Development Report Office193 countries1990–202334 editionsPublisher’s rankIceland
- UNCTAD120 countries2000–202425 editionsPosition · derivedHong Kong
- ICT services exportsDigital & Technology · Economy & Innovation · Mobility & TradeUNCTAD118 countries2005–202420 editionsPosition · derivedIreland
- Imports as a share of GDPMobility & Trade · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group138 countries1970–202556 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Hong Kong
- Income share of the poorest 20%Poverty & Inequality · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derivedIndia
- Income share of the richest 10%Poverty & Inequality · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Slovakia - Industry share of GDPEconomy & InnovationWorld Bank Group158 countries1975–202551 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Guyana
- Inequality-adjusted HDIPoverty & Inequality · Development & Human CapitalUNDP Human Development Report Office169 countries2010–202314 editionsPosition · derivedIceland
- Infant mortality rateHealth & Wellbeing · Development & Human CapitalUN IGME200 countries1953–202472 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: San Marino
- European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee191 countries2016–202510 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Singapore
- INFORM Severity IndexRisk & Resilience · Health & WellbeingACAPS81 countries2020–20256 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Trinidad and Tobago - International students (inbound mobility)Education & Knowledge · Mobility & TradeUIS76 countries1999–202426 editionsPosition · derivedSan Marino
- Internet shutdownsDigital & Technology · Democracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries2000–202526 editionsPosition · derived
Spain - Investment (gross capital formation)Money & Public Finance · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group131 countries1970–202556 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Algeria - Irrigated farmlandFood & Agriculture · Environment & SustainabilityFAO121 countries20231 editionPosition · derivedHighest: Bangladesh
- V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derived
Australia - Labour productivity per hourWork & LabourILO182 countries2005–202521 editionsPosition · derivedIreland
- Land under cerealsFood & Agriculture · Environment & SustainabilityFAO180 countries1961–202363 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: India
- Learning povertyEducation & KnowledgeWorld Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics125 countries20231 editionPosition · derivedLowest: Ireland
- Learning-adjusted years of schoolEducation & KnowledgeWorld Bank Group172 countries2010–20204 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Liberal democracyDemocracy & Civil Liberties · Governance & InstitutionsV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- UN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsPosition · derivedMonaco
- Life expectancy at 65Health & WellbeingUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsPosition · derivedMonaco
- UNCTAD167 countries2006–202621 editionsPublisher’s rankChina
- Livestock densityFood & Agriculture · Environment & SustainabilityFAO188 countries1961–202363 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Singapore
- Livestock production indexFood & Agriculture · Economy & InnovationFAO194 countries1961–202262 editionsPosition · derivedMalawi
- World Bank Group139 countries2007–20237 editionsPublisher’s rankSingapore
- Low-carbon electricityEnergy · Environment & SustainabilityEmber193 countries2000–202425 editionsPosition · derived7 share the highest value
- Manufacturing share of GDPEconomy & Innovation · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group132 countries1977–202549 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Puerto Rico - MMEIG195 countries2000–202324 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Cook Islands - Mean years of schoolingEducation & Knowledge · Development & Human CapitalUNDP Human Development Report Office193 countries1990–202334 editionsPosition · derived
Germany - Media censorshipDemocracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedBelgium
- Median agePeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Vatican City
- Median income per dayPoverty & InequalityWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derivedLuxembourg
- Military role in governmentDemocracy & Civil Liberties · Peace & SecurityV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsValues only76 share the lowest value
- Mobile phone ownershipDigital & TechnologyWorld Bank Group140 countries20241 editionPosition · derived
Libya - Multidimensional Poverty IndexPoverty & Inequality · Development & Human Capital · Health & WellbeingOPHI109 countries2018–20258 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Serbia
- Natural resource rentsEconomy & Innovation · Environment & SustainabilityWorld Bank Group197 countries1970–202152 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Libya
- ND-GAIN climate adaptation indexRisk & Resilience · Environment & SustainabilityNotre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame190 countries1995–202430 editionsPublisher’s rankNorway
- Net migration ratePeople & Population · Mobility & TradeUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues only
Highest: South Sudan - Open Data InventoryGovernance & InstitutionsOpen Data Watch168 countries2015–20247 editionsPublisher’s rank2 share the highest value
- FAO156 countries2005–202420 editionsPosition · derived
Samoa - UIS121 countries1981–202432 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: United Arab Emirates - Palma ratioPoverty & Inequality · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Slovakia
- Participatory democracyDemocracy & Civil LibertiesV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedSwitzerland
- Pesticide useFood & Agriculture · Environment & Sustainability · Health & WellbeingFAO181 countries1990–202435 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Antigua and Barbuda - V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derived2 share the highest value
- PISA mathematics scoresEducation & KnowledgeOECD79 countries2003–20227 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- PISA reading scoresEducation & KnowledgeOECD79 countries2000–20228 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- PISA science scoresEducation & KnowledgeOECD79 countries2006–20226 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Planetary pressures-adjusted HDIDevelopment & Human Capital · Environment & SustainabilityUNDP Human Development Report Office156 countries1990–202334 editionsPosition · derived
United Kingdom - Policy and institutional rating (CPIA)Governance & Institutions · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group78 countries2005–202521 editionsPosition · derived
Rwanda - Political corruptionGovernance & InstitutionsV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Denmark
- World Bank Group211 countries1996–202527 editionsPosition · derived
Andorra - V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg171 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Luxembourg
- PopulationPeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: India
- Population aged 65 and overPeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Vatican City
- Population densityPeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Monaco
- Population growthPeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: South Sudan
- Population under 15People & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Central African Republic
- Poverty ($8.30 a day)Poverty & Inequality · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derived2 share the lowest value
- World Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derived2 share the lowest value
- Poverty rate (national poverty lines)Poverty & InequalityWorld Bank Group160 countries20251 editionValues onlyHighest: South Sudan
- Pre-primary enrolmentEducation & KnowledgeUIS120 countries1999–202426 editionsPosition · derived
Moldova - Primary completion rateEducation & KnowledgeUIS165 countries1981–202545 editionsPosition · derived5 share the highest value
- Prosperity gapPoverty & Inequality · Development & Human CapitalWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Luxembourg
- Public sector employmentWork & Labour · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group135 countries20221 editionPosition · derived
Highest: Maldives - Public sector wage billMoney & Public Finance · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group168 countries2000–202223 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Nauru - Refugees by country of originRisk & Resilience · Peace & SecurityUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency202 countries1992–202534 editionsValues onlyHighest: Ukraine
- Refugees hostedMobility & Trade · Risk & ResilienceUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency177 countries1990–202536 editionsValues onlyHighest: Germany
- Regulatory qualityGovernance & Institutions · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group209 countries1996–202527 editionsPosition · derivedSingapore
- Ember193 countries2000–202425 editionsPosition · derived7 share the highest value
- Renewable freshwater per personEnvironment & Sustainability · Risk & ResilienceFAO181 countries1961–202262 editionsPosition · derivedIceland
- Research and development spendingEconomy & Innovation · Education & KnowledgeUIS84 countries1996–202328 editionsPosition · derivedIsrael
- Researchers per million peopleEconomy & Innovation · Education & KnowledgeUIS145 countries20241 editionPosition · derived
Liechtenstein - World Bank Group211 countries1996–202527 editionsPosition · derived
Finland - School life expectancyEducation & KnowledgeUIS77 countries1971–202450 editionsPosition · derivedMonaco
- Secondary school enrolmentEducation & KnowledgeUIS109 countries1971–202450 editionsPosition · derivedMonaco
- FAO133 countries2015–20239 editionsPosition · derived7 share the lowest value
- Sex ratioPeople & PopulationUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Qatar
- Sex ratio at birthPeople & Population · Gender & EqualityUN DESA Population Division222 countries1950–202374 editionsValues onlyHighest: Liechtenstein
- Short-term external debtMoney & Public FinanceWorld Bank Group118 countries1970–202455 editionsValues only5 share the lowest value
- Smartphone ownershipDigital & TechnologyWorld Bank Group140 countries20241 editionPosition · derived
Sweden - OECD140 countries20231 editionPosition · derivedLowest: Norway
- ILO208 countries20251 editionValues only19 share the highest value
- Societal poverty ratePoverty & InequalityWorld Bank Group60 countries2002–202322 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Slovenia
- State control of territoryPeace & Security · Governance & InstitutionsV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg174 countries1990–202536 editionsValues only19 share the highest value
- World Bank Group188 countries2016–20249 editionsPosition · derivedNorway
- Students studying abroad (outbound mobility)Education & Knowledge · Mobility & TradeUIS117 countries1998–202326 editionsValues onlyHighest: Cook Islands
- Tariff rateMobility & Trade · Economy & InnovationWorld Bank Group143 countries1999–202224 editionsValues only
Highest: Bermuda - Time to clear exports through customsMobility & TradeWorld Bank Group175 countries20251 editionPosition · derived2 share the lowest value
- Trade opennessEconomy & Innovation · Mobility & TradeWorld Bank Group138 countries1970–202556 editionsPosition · derivedHighest: Hong Kong
- Trade union densityWork & Labour · Governance & InstitutionsILO139 countries20201 editionPosition · derivedIceland
- UN IGME200 countries1952–202473 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: San Marino
- UndernourishmentHealth & Wellbeing · Food & AgricultureFAO165 countries2001–202323 editionsPosition · derived62 share the lowest value
- ILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Qatar
- Upper secondary attainmentEducation & KnowledgeUIS95 countries2000–202323 editionsPosition · derived
Belarus - UIS164 countries1981–202545 editionsPosition · derivedSouth Korea
- Violent deathsPeace & Security · Health & WellbeingSmall Arms Survey209 countries2004–202118 editionsPosition · derived4 share the lowest value
- Violent discipline of childrenDevelopment & Human Capital · Health & WellbeingUNICEF90 countries20251 editionPosition · derivedLowest: Qatar
- Voice and accountabilityDemocracy & Civil Liberties · Governance & InstitutionsWorld Bank Group206 countries1996–202527 editionsPosition · derivedNorway
- ILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Qatar
- FAO177 countries2000–202324 editionsPosition · derived
Lowest: Republic of the Congo - Weekly hours workedWork & Labour · Health & WellbeingILO182 countries2005–202521 editionsPosition · derived
Highest: Bhutan - Wind and solar electricityEnergy · Environment & SustainabilityEmber193 countries2000–202425 editionsValues onlyDenmark
- Women in managementWork & Labour · Gender & EqualityILO86 countries2014–202410 editionsPosition · derivedNauru
- Women in researchGender & Equality · Education & KnowledgeUIS153 countries20241 editionValues only
Highest: Myanmar - World Bank Group190 countries1971–202454 editionsPosition · derived14 share the highest value
- V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg176 countries1990–202536 editionsPosition · derivedDenmark
- Working povertyWork & Labour · Poverty & InequalityILO113 countries2000–202526 editionsValues onlyLowest: Bhutan
- World Energy Council126 countries20231 editionPublisher’s rankDenmark
- Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum193 countries2000–202526 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Monaco
- UIS174 countries20241 editionValues only4 share the highest value
- ILO97 countries2002–202423 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Iceland
- Youth unemployment rateWork & LabourILO182 countries1991–202535 editionsPosition · derivedLowest: Niger
07Sources
Who measures the world
The 39 bodies whose work these pages republish, with how many statistics each supplies and how many of those decide the Country Index.
- World Bank Group58 · 13 keys
- FAO23 · 6 keys
- ILO20 · 5 keys
- UIS17 · 4 keys
- V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg16 · 5 keys
- UN DESA Population Division15 · 1 key
- UNDP Human Development Report Office9 · 1 key
- UNICEF7 · 0 keys
- Ember6 · 2 keys
- UNCTAD6 · 3 keys
29 more publishers
- OECD4 · 1 key
- Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame3 · 1 key
- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency3 · 0 keys
- EIA2 · 0 keys
- UN IGME2 · 1 key
- ESMAP2 · 0 keys
- ACAPS1 · 0 keys
- Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex1 · 0 keys
- BICC1 · 1 key
- CIVICUS1 · 1 key
- European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee1 · 1 key
- FSIN1 · 0 keys
- Global Carbon Project1 · 1 key
- Global Footprint Network1 · 1 key
- Growth Lab at Harvard University1 · 1 key
- Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum1 · 1 key
- IDMC1 · 0 keys
- OECD Development Assistance Committee1 · 0 keys
- Open Data Watch1 · 0 keys
- Oxford Insights1 · 1 key
- OPHI1 · 0 keys
- Small Arms Survey1 · 0 keys
- Transparency International1 · 1 key
- MMEIG1 · 1 key
- UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group (Joint Malnutrition Estimates)1 · 1 key
- UCDP1 · 0 keys
- World Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics1 · 0 keys
- World Energy Council1 · 1 key
- World Intellectual Property Organization1 · 0 keys
statistics on this site of which Country Index keysSelect a publisher to list its statistics. Hover a name for its full title and licences.
08Reading the numbers
How to read these pages
- Rank
- A place the publisher printed. Only shown where the publisher publishes one.
- Position · derived
- A place this site made by ordering one statistic’s published values. Equal values share a position.
- Standing
- A place in the Country Index or one of its topics, always named with its edition. Built from the key statistics.
- The middle country
- The median of the countries measured — half are above it. Never a world average, which would depend on weighting.
- A statistic either has a better end (a higher life expectancy, a lower child mortality) or none (a larger farmland share is not better). Pages without a better end never call a country a leader.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone.
- An edition is named for the year of its report; the year its data describes is stated beside it, and often differs.
- Some files give each country’s latest available reading, so rows come from different years. Readings more than ten years older than their edition are listed but not compared.
- Values are stored exactly as published, digit for digit, and trimmed only for display.
How many statistics does Nations Inquiry track?
216, from 39 publishers: 6,665 editions in all, the oldest describing 1950.
Where does the data come from?
From each statistic’s own publisher — World Bank Group (58), FAO (23), ILO (20), UIS (17) and 35 others. Values are stored exactly as published and never rounded.
Why do some statistics have no rank?
Only 14 of the files carry a rank their publisher printed. For 162 more, this site derives a position by ordering the published values, and labels it as its own. 40 show values only, usually because many countries share the same value.
Which statistics decide the Country Index?
55 key statistics across 16 topics, listed on this page. The other 161 are published as context and have no vote.
How current is the data?
77 statistics describe 2025 or later. Every page names both its edition and the year its data describes, which often differ.
Can I download the data?
Every edition of every statistic is on the Datasets pages as a full table, row for row and unrounded, with its source and licence.