# Country Matrix Analysis Compendium
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# Table of Contents
> Generated from the Country Matrix Analysis compendium structure.
> Reading order follows the official reading path defined in the index.
- [1. Directory](#directory)
- [Country Matrix Countries](#index)
- [Tier 1 Packages](#index--tier-1-packages)
- [Tier 3 Scorecards](#index--tier-3-scorecards)
- [2. Brazil — Five Factor Analysis](#brazil-five-factor-analysis)
- [Brazil — Five Factor Analysis](#br--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#br--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#br--index--reading-path)
- [How To Read Brazil](#br--index--how-to-read-brazil)
- [Source Baseline](#br--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#br--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#br--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Core Thesis](#br--executive-summary--core-thesis)
- [What Drives The Country](#br--executive-summary--what-drives-the-country)
- [What Makes Brazil Different](#br--executive-summary--what-makes-brazil-different)
- [Bottom Line](#br--executive-summary--bottom-line)
- [Energy](#br--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Why Energy Matters More Than It Gets Credit For](#br--energy--why-energy-matters-more-than-it-gets-credit-for)
- [The Real Risks](#br--energy--the-real-risks)
- [Strategic Read](#br--energy--strategic-read)
- [Security](#br--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Why Security Is The Drag](#br--security--why-security-is-the-drag)
- [Where The Score Overstates Weakness](#br--security--where-the-score-overstates-weakness)
- [Strategic Read](#br--security--strategic-read)
- [Food](#br--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [The Central Contradiction](#br--food--the-central-contradiction)
- [What The Score Gets Right And Wrong](#br--food--what-the-score-gets-right-and-wrong)
- [Strategic Read](#br--food--strategic-read)
- [Technology](#br--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [The Middle-Power Ceiling](#br--technology--the-middle-power-ceiling)
- [Where The Score Is Too Harsh](#br--technology--where-the-score-is-too-harsh)
- [Strategic Read](#br--technology--strategic-read)
- [Demographics](#br--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Why Demographics Is A Real Edge](#br--demographics--why-demographics-is-a-real-edge)
- [Where The Score Needs Context](#br--demographics--where-the-score-needs-context)
- [Strategic Read](#br--demographics--strategic-read)
- [Framework Assessment](#br--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Where The Framework Works Well](#br--framework-assessment--where-the-framework-works-well)
- [Where The Framework Is Weak](#br--framework-assessment--where-the-framework-is-weak)
- [Biggest Blind Spot](#br--framework-assessment--biggest-blind-spot)
- [Final Judgment](#br--framework-assessment--final-judgment)
- [Investment Implications](#br--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#br--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Translation](#br--investment-implications--investment-translation)
- [Likely Beneficiaries](#br--investment-implications--likely-beneficiaries)
- [Likely Losers](#br--investment-implications--likely-losers)
- [What Would Change The View](#br--investment-implications--what-would-change-the-view)
- [3. China — Five Factor Analysis Template](#china-five-factor-analysis-template)
- [China — Five Factor Analysis Template](#cn--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#cn--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#cn--index--reading-path)
- [Manual Completion Checklist](#cn--index--manual-completion-checklist)
- [Source Baseline](#cn--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#cn--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#cn--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--executive-summary--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#cn--executive-summary--required-calls)
- [Energy](#cn--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--energy--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#cn--energy--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Security](#cn--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--security--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#cn--security--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Food](#cn--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--food--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#cn--food--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Technology](#cn--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--technology--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#cn--technology--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Demographics](#cn--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--demographics--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#cn--demographics--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Framework Assessment](#cn--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--framework-assessment--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#cn--framework-assessment--required-calls)
- [Investment Implications](#cn--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#cn--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#cn--investment-implications--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#cn--investment-implications--required-calls)
- [4. France — Five Factor Analysis](#france-five-factor-analysis)
- [France — Five Factor Analysis](#fr--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#fr--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#fr--index--reading-path)
- [Core Thesis](#fr--index--core-thesis)
- [Source Baseline](#fr--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#fr--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#fr--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Energy](#fr--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Strategic Read](#fr--energy--strategic-read)
- [Security](#fr--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Strategic Read](#fr--security--strategic-read)
- [Food](#fr--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Strategic Read](#fr--food--strategic-read)
- [Technology](#fr--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Strategic Read](#fr--technology--strategic-read)
- [Demographics](#fr--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Strategic Read](#fr--demographics--strategic-read)
- [Framework Assessment](#fr--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Implications](#fr--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#fr--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [5. Germany — Five Factor Analysis](#germany-five-factor-analysis)
- [Germany — Five Factor Analysis](#de--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#de--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#de--index--reading-path)
- [Source Baseline](#de--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#de--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#de--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Thesis](#de--executive-summary--thesis)
- [Factor Read](#de--executive-summary--factor-read)
- [Strategic Read](#de--executive-summary--strategic-read)
- [Energy](#de--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Security](#de--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Food](#de--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Technology](#de--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Demographics](#de--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Framework Assessment](#de--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Implications](#de--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#de--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [6. India — Five Factor Analysis Template](#india-five-factor-analysis-template)
- [India — Five Factor Analysis Template](#in--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#in--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#in--index--reading-path)
- [Manual Completion Checklist](#in--index--manual-completion-checklist)
- [Source Baseline](#in--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#in--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#in--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--executive-summary--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#in--executive-summary--required-calls)
- [Energy](#in--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--energy--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#in--energy--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Security](#in--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--security--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#in--security--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Food](#in--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--food--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#in--food--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Technology](#in--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--technology--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#in--technology--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Demographics](#in--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--demographics--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#in--demographics--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Framework Assessment](#in--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--framework-assessment--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#in--framework-assessment--required-calls)
- [Investment Implications](#in--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#in--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#in--investment-implications--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#in--investment-implications--required-calls)
- [7. Iran — Five Factor Analysis Template](#iran-five-factor-analysis-template)
- [Iran — Five Factor Analysis Template](#ir--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#ir--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#ir--index--reading-path)
- [Manual Completion Checklist](#ir--index--manual-completion-checklist)
- [Source Baseline](#ir--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#ir--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#ir--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--executive-summary--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#ir--executive-summary--required-calls)
- [Energy](#ir--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--energy--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#ir--energy--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Security](#ir--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--security--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#ir--security--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Food](#ir--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--food--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#ir--food--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Technology](#ir--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--technology--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#ir--technology--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Demographics](#ir--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--demographics--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#ir--demographics--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Framework Assessment](#ir--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--framework-assessment--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#ir--framework-assessment--required-calls)
- [Investment Implications](#ir--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ir--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#ir--investment-implications--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#ir--investment-implications--required-calls)
- [8. Japan — Five Factor Analysis Template](#japan-five-factor-analysis-template)
- [Japan — Five Factor Analysis Template](#jp--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#jp--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#jp--index--reading-path)
- [Manual Completion Checklist](#jp--index--manual-completion-checklist)
- [Source Baseline](#jp--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#jp--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#jp--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--executive-summary--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#jp--executive-summary--required-calls)
- [Energy](#jp--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--energy--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#jp--energy--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Security](#jp--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--security--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#jp--security--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Food](#jp--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--food--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#jp--food--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Technology](#jp--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--technology--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#jp--technology--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Demographics](#jp--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--demographics--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#jp--demographics--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Framework Assessment](#jp--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--framework-assessment--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#jp--framework-assessment--required-calls)
- [Investment Implications](#jp--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#jp--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#jp--investment-implications--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#jp--investment-implications--required-calls)
- [9. Russia — Five Factor Analysis](#russia-five-factor-analysis)
- [Russia — Five Factor Analysis](#ru--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#ru--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#ru--index--reading-path)
- [How To Read Russia](#ru--index--how-to-read-russia)
- [Source Baseline](#ru--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#ru--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#ru--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Core Thesis](#ru--executive-summary--core-thesis)
- [What Drives The Country](#ru--executive-summary--what-drives-the-country)
- [What Makes Russia Different](#ru--executive-summary--what-makes-russia-different)
- [Bottom Line](#ru--executive-summary--bottom-line)
- [Energy](#ru--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Why Energy Is The Master Variable](#ru--energy--why-energy-is-the-master-variable)
- [The Real Constraint](#ru--energy--the-real-constraint)
- [Scenario Lens](#ru--energy--scenario-lens)
- [Security](#ru--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Why The `5/5` Holds](#ru--security--why-the-5-5-holds)
- [Where The Score Is Too Generous](#ru--security--where-the-score-is-too-generous)
- [Strategic Read](#ru--security--strategic-read)
- [Food](#ru--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [What The Score Gets Right](#ru--food--what-the-score-gets-right)
- [What The Score Misses](#ru--food--what-the-score-misses)
- [Strategic Read](#ru--food--strategic-read)
- [Technology](#ru--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Why This Is The Binding Constraint](#ru--technology--why-this-is-the-binding-constraint)
- [Where The Score Understates Russian Capacity](#ru--technology--where-the-score-understates-russian-capacity)
- [Bottom Line](#ru--technology--bottom-line)
- [Demographics](#ru--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [The Short-Version Read](#ru--demographics--the-short-version-read)
- [What The Framework Misses](#ru--demographics--what-the-framework-misses)
- [Strategic Implication](#ru--demographics--strategic-implication)
- [Framework Assessment](#ru--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Where The Framework Works Well](#ru--framework-assessment--where-the-framework-works-well)
- [Where The Framework Overfits](#ru--framework-assessment--where-the-framework-overfits)
- [Biggest Blind Spot](#ru--framework-assessment--biggest-blind-spot)
- [Final Judgment](#ru--framework-assessment--final-judgment)
- [Investment Implications](#ru--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#ru--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Translation](#ru--investment-implications--investment-translation)
- [Likely Beneficiaries](#ru--investment-implications--likely-beneficiaries)
- [Likely Losers](#ru--investment-implications--likely-losers)
- [What Would Break The Thesis](#ru--investment-implications--what-would-break-the-thesis)
- [10. Saudi Arabia — Five Factor Analysis](#saudi-arabia-five-factor-analysis)
- [Saudi Arabia — Five Factor Analysis](#sa--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#sa--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#sa--index--reading-path)
- [Source Baseline](#sa--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#sa--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#sa--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Thesis](#sa--executive-summary--thesis)
- [Factor Read](#sa--executive-summary--factor-read)
- [Strategic Read](#sa--executive-summary--strategic-read)
- [Energy](#sa--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Security](#sa--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Food](#sa--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Technology](#sa--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Demographics](#sa--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Framework Assessment](#sa--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Implications](#sa--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#sa--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [11. South Korea — Five Factor Analysis](#south-korea-five-factor-analysis)
- [South Korea — Five Factor Analysis](#kr--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#kr--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#kr--index--reading-path)
- [Source Baseline](#kr--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#kr--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#kr--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Thesis](#kr--executive-summary--thesis)
- [Factor Read](#kr--executive-summary--factor-read)
- [Strategic Read](#kr--executive-summary--strategic-read)
- [Energy](#kr--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Security](#kr--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Food](#kr--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Technology](#kr--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Demographics](#kr--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Framework Assessment](#kr--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Implications](#kr--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#kr--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [12. Turkey — Five Factor Analysis](#turkey-five-factor-analysis)
- [Turkey — Five Factor Analysis](#tr--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#tr--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#tr--index--reading-path)
- [Core Thesis](#tr--index--core-thesis)
- [Source Baseline](#tr--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#tr--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#tr--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Energy](#tr--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Security](#tr--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Food](#tr--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Technology](#tr--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Demographics](#tr--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Framework Assessment](#tr--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Investment Implications](#tr--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#tr--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [13. United Kingdom — Five Factor Analysis](#united-kingdom-five-factor-analysis)
- [United Kingdom — Five Factor Analysis](#gb--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#gb--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#gb--index--reading-path)
- [Country Thesis](#gb--index--country-thesis)
- [Source Baseline](#gb--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#gb--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#gb--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Core Read](#gb--executive-summary--core-read)
- [What Matters Most](#gb--executive-summary--what-matters-most)
- [Comparative Position](#gb--executive-summary--comparative-position)
- [Bottom Line](#gb--executive-summary--bottom-line)
- [Energy](#gb--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Assessment](#gb--energy--assessment)
- [Strategic Read](#gb--energy--strategic-read)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#gb--energy--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Security](#gb--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Assessment](#gb--security--assessment)
- [Strategic Read](#gb--security--strategic-read)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#gb--security--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Food](#gb--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Assessment](#gb--food--assessment)
- [Strategic Read](#gb--food--strategic-read)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#gb--food--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Technology](#gb--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Assessment](#gb--technology--assessment)
- [Strategic Read](#gb--technology--strategic-read)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#gb--technology--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Demographics](#gb--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Assessment](#gb--demographics--assessment)
- [Strategic Read](#gb--demographics--strategic-read)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#gb--demographics--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Framework Assessment](#gb--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Where The Framework Works](#gb--framework-assessment--where-the-framework-works)
- [Where The Framework Strains](#gb--framework-assessment--where-the-framework-strains)
- [Biggest Blind Spot](#gb--framework-assessment--biggest-blind-spot)
- [Durable Takeaway](#gb--framework-assessment--durable-takeaway)
- [Investment Implications](#gb--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#gb--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Core Investment Read](#gb--investment-implications--core-investment-read)
- [Likely Beneficiaries](#gb--investment-implications--likely-beneficiaries)
- [Likely Structural Laggards](#gb--investment-implications--likely-structural-laggards)
- [What Would Improve The Thesis](#gb--investment-implications--what-would-improve-the-thesis)
- [What Would Break It](#gb--investment-implications--what-would-break-it)
- [Bottom Line](#gb--investment-implications--bottom-line)
- [14. United States — Five Factor Analysis Template](#united-states-five-factor-analysis-template)
- [United States — Five Factor Analysis Template](#us--index)
- [Quantitative Snapshot](#us--index--quantitative-snapshot)
- [Reading Path](#us--index--reading-path)
- [Manual Completion Checklist](#us--index--manual-completion-checklist)
- [Source Baseline](#us--index--source-baseline)
- [Executive Summary](#us--executive-summary)
- [Baseline Scorecard](#us--executive-summary--baseline-scorecard)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--executive-summary--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#us--executive-summary--required-calls)
- [Energy](#us--energy)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--energy--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--energy--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#us--energy--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Security](#us--security)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--security--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--security--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#us--security--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Food](#us--food)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--food--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--food--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#us--food--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Technology](#us--technology)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--technology--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--technology--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#us--technology--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Demographics](#us--demographics)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--demographics--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--demographics--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Qualitative Overlay Notes](#us--demographics--qualitative-overlay-notes)
- [Framework Assessment](#us--framework-assessment)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--framework-assessment--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--framework-assessment--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#us--framework-assessment--required-calls)
- [Investment Implications](#us--investment-implications)
- [Quantitative Baseline](#us--investment-implications--quantitative-baseline)
- [Manual Draft Prompt](#us--investment-implications--manual-draft-prompt)
- [Required Calls](#us--investment-implications--required-calls)
- [15. Tier 3 Scorecards](#tier-3-scorecards)
- [Afghanistan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#af)
- [Score Snapshot](#af--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#af--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#af--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#af--sources)
- [Albania — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#al)
- [Score Snapshot](#al--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#al--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#al--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#al--sources)
- [Andorra — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ad)
- [Score Snapshot](#ad--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ad--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ad--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ad--sources)
- [Angola — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ao)
- [Score Snapshot](#ao--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ao--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ao--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ao--sources)
- [Antigua and Barbuda — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ag)
- [Score Snapshot](#ag--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ag--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ag--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ag--sources)
- [Armenia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#am)
- [Score Snapshot](#am--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#am--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#am--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#am--sources)
- [Austria — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#at)
- [Score Snapshot](#at--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#at--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#at--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#at--sources)
- [Azerbaijan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#az)
- [Score Snapshot](#az--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#az--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#az--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#az--sources)
- [Bahamas, The — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bs)
- [Score Snapshot](#bs--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bs--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bs--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bs--sources)
- [Barbados — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bb)
- [Score Snapshot](#bb--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bb--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bb--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bb--sources)
- [Belarus — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#by)
- [Score Snapshot](#by--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#by--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#by--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#by--sources)
- [Belgium — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#be)
- [Score Snapshot](#be--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#be--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#be--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#be--sources)
- [Belize — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bz)
- [Score Snapshot](#bz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bz--sources)
- [Benin — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bj)
- [Score Snapshot](#bj--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bj--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bj--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bj--sources)
- [Bhutan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bt)
- [Score Snapshot](#bt--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bt--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bt--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bt--sources)
- [Bolivia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bo)
- [Score Snapshot](#bo--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bo--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bo--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bo--sources)
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ba)
- [Score Snapshot](#ba--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ba--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ba--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ba--sources)
- [Botswana — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bw)
- [Score Snapshot](#bw--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bw--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bw--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bw--sources)
- [Brunei Darussalam — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bn)
- [Score Snapshot](#bn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bn--sources)
- [Bulgaria — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bg)
- [Score Snapshot](#bg--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bg--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bg--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bg--sources)
- [Burkina Faso — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bf)
- [Score Snapshot](#bf--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bf--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bf--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bf--sources)
- [Burundi — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#bi)
- [Score Snapshot](#bi--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#bi--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#bi--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#bi--sources)
- [Cabo Verde — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cv)
- [Score Snapshot](#cv--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cv--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cv--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cv--sources)
- [Cambodia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#kh)
- [Score Snapshot](#kh--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#kh--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#kh--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#kh--sources)
- [Cameroon — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cm)
- [Score Snapshot](#cm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cm--sources)
- [Central African Republic — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cf)
- [Score Snapshot](#cf--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cf--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cf--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cf--sources)
- [Chad — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#td)
- [Score Snapshot](#td--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#td--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#td--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#td--sources)
- [Comoros — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#km)
- [Score Snapshot](#km--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#km--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#km--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#km--sources)
- [Congo, Dem. Rep. — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cd)
- [Score Snapshot](#cd--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cd--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cd--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cd--sources)
- [Congo, Rep. — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cg)
- [Score Snapshot](#cg--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cg--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cg--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cg--sources)
- [Costa Rica — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cr)
- [Score Snapshot](#cr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cr--sources)
- [Cote d](#ci)
- [Score Snapshot](#ci--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ci--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ci--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ci--sources)
- [Croatia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#hr)
- [Score Snapshot](#hr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#hr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#hr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#hr--sources)
- [Cuba — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cu)
- [Score Snapshot](#cu--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cu--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cu--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cu--sources)
- [Cyprus — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cy)
- [Score Snapshot](#cy--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cy--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cy--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cy--sources)
- [Czechia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#cz)
- [Score Snapshot](#cz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#cz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#cz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#cz--sources)
- [Denmark — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#dk)
- [Score Snapshot](#dk--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#dk--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#dk--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#dk--sources)
- [Djibouti — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#dj)
- [Score Snapshot](#dj--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#dj--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#dj--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#dj--sources)
- [Dominica — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#dm)
- [Score Snapshot](#dm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#dm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#dm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#dm--sources)
- [Dominican Republic — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#do)
- [Score Snapshot](#do--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#do--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#do--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#do--sources)
- [Ecuador — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ec)
- [Score Snapshot](#ec--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ec--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ec--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ec--sources)
- [El Salvador — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sv)
- [Score Snapshot](#sv--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sv--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sv--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sv--sources)
- [Equatorial Guinea — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gq)
- [Score Snapshot](#gq--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gq--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gq--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gq--sources)
- [Eritrea — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#er)
- [Score Snapshot](#er--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#er--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#er--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#er--sources)
- [Estonia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ee)
- [Score Snapshot](#ee--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ee--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ee--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ee--sources)
- [Eswatini — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sz)
- [Score Snapshot](#sz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sz--sources)
- [Fiji — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#fj)
- [Score Snapshot](#fj--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#fj--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#fj--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#fj--sources)
- [Finland — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#fi)
- [Score Snapshot](#fi--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#fi--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#fi--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#fi--sources)
- [Gabon — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ga)
- [Score Snapshot](#ga--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ga--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ga--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ga--sources)
- [Gambia, The — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gm)
- [Score Snapshot](#gm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gm--sources)
- [Georgia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ge)
- [Score Snapshot](#ge--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ge--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ge--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ge--sources)
- [Ghana — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gh)
- [Score Snapshot](#gh--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gh--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gh--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gh--sources)
- [Greece — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gr)
- [Score Snapshot](#gr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gr--sources)
- [Grenada — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gd)
- [Score Snapshot](#gd--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gd--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gd--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gd--sources)
- [Guatemala — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gt)
- [Score Snapshot](#gt--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gt--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gt--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gt--sources)
- [Guinea — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gn)
- [Score Snapshot](#gn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gn--sources)
- [Guinea-Bissau — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gw)
- [Score Snapshot](#gw--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gw--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gw--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gw--sources)
- [Guyana — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#gy)
- [Score Snapshot](#gy--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#gy--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#gy--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#gy--sources)
- [Haiti — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ht)
- [Score Snapshot](#ht--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ht--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ht--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ht--sources)
- [Honduras — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#hn)
- [Score Snapshot](#hn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#hn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#hn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#hn--sources)
- [Hungary — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#hu)
- [Score Snapshot](#hu--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#hu--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#hu--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#hu--sources)
- [Iceland — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#is)
- [Score Snapshot](#is--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#is--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#is--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#is--sources)
- [Ireland — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ie)
- [Score Snapshot](#ie--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ie--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ie--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ie--sources)
- [Jamaica — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#jm)
- [Score Snapshot](#jm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#jm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#jm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#jm--sources)
- [Kazakhstan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#kz)
- [Score Snapshot](#kz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#kz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#kz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#kz--sources)
- [Kiribati — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ki)
- [Score Snapshot](#ki--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ki--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ki--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ki--sources)
- [Korea, Dem. People](#kp)
- [Score Snapshot](#kp--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#kp--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#kp--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#kp--sources)
- [Kyrgyz Republic — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#kg)
- [Score Snapshot](#kg--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#kg--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#kg--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#kg--sources)
- [Lao PDR — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#la)
- [Score Snapshot](#la--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#la--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#la--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#la--sources)
- [Latvia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lv)
- [Score Snapshot](#lv--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lv--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lv--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lv--sources)
- [Lebanon — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lb)
- [Score Snapshot](#lb--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lb--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lb--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lb--sources)
- [Lesotho — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ls)
- [Score Snapshot](#ls--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ls--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ls--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ls--sources)
- [Liberia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lr)
- [Score Snapshot](#lr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lr--sources)
- [Libya — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ly)
- [Score Snapshot](#ly--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ly--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ly--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ly--sources)
- [Liechtenstein — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#li)
- [Score Snapshot](#li--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#li--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#li--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#li--sources)
- [Lithuania — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lt)
- [Score Snapshot](#lt--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lt--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lt--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lt--sources)
- [Luxembourg — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lu)
- [Score Snapshot](#lu--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lu--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lu--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lu--sources)
- [Madagascar — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mg)
- [Score Snapshot](#mg--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mg--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mg--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mg--sources)
- [Malawi — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mw)
- [Score Snapshot](#mw--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mw--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mw--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mw--sources)
- [Maldives — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mv)
- [Score Snapshot](#mv--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mv--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mv--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mv--sources)
- [Mali — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ml)
- [Score Snapshot](#ml--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ml--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ml--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ml--sources)
- [Malta — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mt)
- [Score Snapshot](#mt--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mt--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mt--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mt--sources)
- [Marshall Islands — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mh)
- [Score Snapshot](#mh--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mh--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mh--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mh--sources)
- [Mauritania — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mr)
- [Score Snapshot](#mr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mr--sources)
- [Mauritius — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mu)
- [Score Snapshot](#mu--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mu--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mu--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mu--sources)
- [Micronesia, Fed. Sts. — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#fm)
- [Score Snapshot](#fm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#fm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#fm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#fm--sources)
- [Moldova — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#md)
- [Score Snapshot](#md--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#md--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#md--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#md--sources)
- [Monaco — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mc)
- [Score Snapshot](#mc--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mc--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mc--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mc--sources)
- [Mongolia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mn)
- [Score Snapshot](#mn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mn--sources)
- [Montenegro — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#me)
- [Score Snapshot](#me--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#me--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#me--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#me--sources)
- [Mozambique — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mz)
- [Score Snapshot](#mz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mz--sources)
- [Myanmar — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mm)
- [Score Snapshot](#mm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mm--sources)
- [Namibia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#na)
- [Score Snapshot](#na--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#na--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#na--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#na--sources)
- [Nauru — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#nr)
- [Score Snapshot](#nr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#nr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#nr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#nr--sources)
- [Nepal — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#np)
- [Score Snapshot](#np--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#np--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#np--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#np--sources)
- [Nicaragua — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ni)
- [Score Snapshot](#ni--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ni--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ni--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ni--sources)
- [Niger — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ne)
- [Score Snapshot](#ne--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ne--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ne--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ne--sources)
- [North Macedonia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#mk)
- [Score Snapshot](#mk--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#mk--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#mk--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#mk--sources)
- [Palau — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#pw)
- [Score Snapshot](#pw--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#pw--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#pw--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#pw--sources)
- [Panama — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#pa)
- [Score Snapshot](#pa--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#pa--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#pa--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#pa--sources)
- [Papua New Guinea — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#pg)
- [Score Snapshot](#pg--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#pg--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#pg--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#pg--sources)
- [Paraguay — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#py)
- [Score Snapshot](#py--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#py--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#py--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#py--sources)
- [Portugal — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#pt)
- [Score Snapshot](#pt--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#pt--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#pt--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#pt--sources)
- [Romania — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ro)
- [Score Snapshot](#ro--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ro--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ro--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ro--sources)
- [Rwanda — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#rw)
- [Score Snapshot](#rw--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#rw--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#rw--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#rw--sources)
- [Samoa — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ws)
- [Score Snapshot](#ws--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ws--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ws--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ws--sources)
- [San Marino — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sm)
- [Score Snapshot](#sm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sm--sources)
- [Sao Tome and Principe — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#st)
- [Score Snapshot](#st--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#st--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#st--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#st--sources)
- [Senegal — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sn)
- [Score Snapshot](#sn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sn--sources)
- [Serbia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#rs)
- [Score Snapshot](#rs--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#rs--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#rs--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#rs--sources)
- [Seychelles — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sc)
- [Score Snapshot](#sc--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sc--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sc--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sc--sources)
- [Sierra Leone — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sl)
- [Score Snapshot](#sl--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sl--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sl--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sl--sources)
- [Slovak Republic — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sk)
- [Score Snapshot](#sk--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sk--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sk--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sk--sources)
- [Slovenia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#si)
- [Score Snapshot](#si--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#si--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#si--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#si--sources)
- [Solomon Islands — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sb)
- [Score Snapshot](#sb--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sb--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sb--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sb--sources)
- [Somalia, Fed. Rep. — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#so)
- [Score Snapshot](#so--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#so--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#so--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#so--sources)
- [South Sudan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ss)
- [Score Snapshot](#ss--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ss--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ss--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ss--sources)
- [Sri Lanka — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lk)
- [Score Snapshot](#lk--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lk--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lk--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lk--sources)
- [St. Kitts and Nevis — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#kn)
- [Score Snapshot](#kn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#kn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#kn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#kn--sources)
- [St. Lucia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#lc)
- [Score Snapshot](#lc--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#lc--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#lc--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#lc--sources)
- [St. Vincent and the Grenadines — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#vc)
- [Score Snapshot](#vc--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#vc--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#vc--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#vc--sources)
- [Sudan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sd)
- [Score Snapshot](#sd--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sd--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sd--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sd--sources)
- [Suriname — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sr)
- [Score Snapshot](#sr--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sr--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sr--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sr--sources)
- [Syrian Arab Republic — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#sy)
- [Score Snapshot](#sy--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#sy--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#sy--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#sy--sources)
- [Tajikistan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tj)
- [Score Snapshot](#tj--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tj--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tj--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tj--sources)
- [Tanzania — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tz)
- [Score Snapshot](#tz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tz--sources)
- [Timor-Leste — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tl)
- [Score Snapshot](#tl--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tl--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tl--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tl--sources)
- [Togo — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tg)
- [Score Snapshot](#tg--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tg--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tg--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tg--sources)
- [Tonga — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#to)
- [Score Snapshot](#to--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#to--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#to--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#to--sources)
- [Trinidad and Tobago — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tt)
- [Score Snapshot](#tt--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tt--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tt--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tt--sources)
- [Tunisia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tn)
- [Score Snapshot](#tn--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tn--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tn--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tn--sources)
- [Turkmenistan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tm)
- [Score Snapshot](#tm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tm--sources)
- [Tuvalu — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#tv)
- [Score Snapshot](#tv--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#tv--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#tv--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#tv--sources)
- [Uganda — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ug)
- [Score Snapshot](#ug--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ug--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ug--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ug--sources)
- [Uruguay — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#uy)
- [Score Snapshot](#uy--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#uy--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#uy--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#uy--sources)
- [Uzbekistan — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#uz)
- [Score Snapshot](#uz--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#uz--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#uz--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#uz--sources)
- [Vanuatu — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#vu)
- [Score Snapshot](#vu--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#vu--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#vu--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#vu--sources)
- [Venezuela, RB — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ve)
- [Score Snapshot](#ve--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ve--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ve--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ve--sources)
- [West Bank and Gaza — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ps)
- [Score Snapshot](#ps--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ps--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ps--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ps--sources)
- [Yemen, Rep. — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#ye)
- [Score Snapshot](#ye--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#ye--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#ye--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#ye--sources)
- [Zambia — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#zm)
- [Score Snapshot](#zm--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#zm--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#zm--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#zm--sources)
- [Zimbabwe — Self-Sufficiency Scorecard](#zw)
- [Score Snapshot](#zw--score-snapshot)
- [Bloc Context](#zw--bloc-context)
- [Factor Notes](#zw--factor-notes)
- [Sources](#zw--sources)
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# Full Content
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# Country Matrix Countries
This directory lists the country pages currently published into Quartz. Tier 1 entries are multi-page manual packages; Tier 3 entries are auto-generated scorecards.
## Tier 1 Packages
- [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]] (`CN`, Tier 1 package)
- [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]] (`IN`, Tier 1 package)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]] (`IR`, Tier 1 package)
- [[country-matrix/countries/jp/index|Japan]] (`JP`, Tier 1 package)
- [[country-matrix/countries/us/index|United States]] (`US`, Tier 1 package)
## Tier 3 Scorecards
- [[country-matrix/countries/af|Afghanistan]] (`AF`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/al|Albania]] (`AL`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ad|Andorra]] (`AD`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ao|Angola]] (`AO`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ag|Antigua and Barbuda]] (`AG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/am|Armenia]] (`AM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/at|Austria]] (`AT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/az|Azerbaijan]] (`AZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bs|Bahamas, The]] (`BS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bb|Barbados]] (`BB`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/by|Belarus]] (`BY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/be|Belgium]] (`BE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bz|Belize]] (`BZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bj|Benin]] (`BJ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bt|Bhutan]] (`BT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bo|Bolivia]] (`BO`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ba|Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (`BA`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bw|Botswana]] (`BW`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bn|Brunei Darussalam]] (`BN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bg|Bulgaria]] (`BG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bf|Burkina Faso]] (`BF`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/bi|Burundi]] (`BI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cv|Cabo Verde]] (`CV`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/kh|Cambodia]] (`KH`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cm|Cameroon]] (`CM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cf|Central African Republic]] (`CF`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/td|Chad]] (`TD`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/km|Comoros]] (`KM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cd|Congo, Dem. Rep.]] (`CD`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cg|Congo, Rep.]] (`CG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cr|Costa Rica]] (`CR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ci|Cote d'Ivoire]] (`CI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/hr|Croatia]] (`HR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cu|Cuba]] (`CU`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cy|Cyprus]] (`CY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/cz|Czechia]] (`CZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/dk|Denmark]] (`DK`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/dj|Djibouti]] (`DJ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/dm|Dominica]] (`DM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/do|Dominican Republic]] (`DO`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ec|Ecuador]] (`EC`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sv|El Salvador]] (`SV`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gq|Equatorial Guinea]] (`GQ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/er|Eritrea]] (`ER`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ee|Estonia]] (`EE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sz|Eswatini]] (`SZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/fj|Fiji]] (`FJ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/fi|Finland]] (`FI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ga|Gabon]] (`GA`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gm|Gambia, The]] (`GM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ge|Georgia]] (`GE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gh|Ghana]] (`GH`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gr|Greece]] (`GR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gd|Grenada]] (`GD`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gt|Guatemala]] (`GT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gn|Guinea]] (`GN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gw|Guinea-Bissau]] (`GW`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/gy|Guyana]] (`GY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ht|Haiti]] (`HT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/hn|Honduras]] (`HN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/hu|Hungary]] (`HU`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/is|Iceland]] (`IS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ie|Ireland]] (`IE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/jm|Jamaica]] (`JM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/kz|Kazakhstan]] (`KZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ki|Kiribati]] (`KI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/kp|Korea, Dem. People's Rep.]] (`KP`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/kg|Kyrgyz Republic]] (`KG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/la|Lao PDR]] (`LA`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lv|Latvia]] (`LV`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lb|Lebanon]] (`LB`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ls|Lesotho]] (`LS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lr|Liberia]] (`LR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ly|Libya]] (`LY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/li|Liechtenstein]] (`LI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lt|Lithuania]] (`LT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lu|Luxembourg]] (`LU`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mg|Madagascar]] (`MG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mw|Malawi]] (`MW`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mv|Maldives]] (`MV`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ml|Mali]] (`ML`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mt|Malta]] (`MT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mh|Marshall Islands]] (`MH`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mr|Mauritania]] (`MR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mu|Mauritius]] (`MU`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/fm|Micronesia, Fed. Sts.]] (`FM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/md|Moldova]] (`MD`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mc|Monaco]] (`MC`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mn|Mongolia]] (`MN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/me|Montenegro]] (`ME`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mz|Mozambique]] (`MZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mm|Myanmar]] (`MM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/na|Namibia]] (`NA`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/nr|Nauru]] (`NR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/np|Nepal]] (`NP`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ni|Nicaragua]] (`NI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ne|Niger]] (`NE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/mk|North Macedonia]] (`MK`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/pw|Palau]] (`PW`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/pa|Panama]] (`PA`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/pg|Papua New Guinea]] (`PG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/py|Paraguay]] (`PY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/pt|Portugal]] (`PT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ro|Romania]] (`RO`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/rw|Rwanda]] (`RW`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ws|Samoa]] (`WS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sm|San Marino]] (`SM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/st|Sao Tome and Principe]] (`ST`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sn|Senegal]] (`SN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/rs|Serbia]] (`RS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sc|Seychelles]] (`SC`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sl|Sierra Leone]] (`SL`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sk|Slovak Republic]] (`SK`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/si|Slovenia]] (`SI`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sb|Solomon Islands]] (`SB`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/so|Somalia, Fed. Rep.]] (`SO`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ss|South Sudan]] (`SS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lk|Sri Lanka]] (`LK`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/kn|St. Kitts and Nevis]] (`KN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/lc|St. Lucia]] (`LC`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/vc|St. Vincent and the Grenadines]] (`VC`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sd|Sudan]] (`SD`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sr|Suriname]] (`SR`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/sy|Syrian Arab Republic]] (`SY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tj|Tajikistan]] (`TJ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tz|Tanzania]] (`TZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tl|Timor-Leste]] (`TL`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tg|Togo]] (`TG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/to|Tonga]] (`TO`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tt|Trinidad and Tobago]] (`TT`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tn|Tunisia]] (`TN`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tm|Turkmenistan]] (`TM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/tv|Tuvalu]] (`TV`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ug|Uganda]] (`UG`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/uy|Uruguay]] (`UY`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/uz|Uzbekistan]] (`UZ`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/vu|Vanuatu]] (`VU`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ve|Venezuela, RB]] (`VE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ps|West Bank and Gaza]] (`PS`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/ye|Yemen, Rep.]] (`YE`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/zm|Zambia]] (`ZM`, Tier 3 scorecard)
- [[country-matrix/countries/zw|Zimbabwe]] (`ZW`, Tier 3 scorecard)
*Back to [[country-matrix/index|Country Matrix]]*
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# Brazil
Brazil is one of the strongest arguments for separating physical sovereignty from geopolitical hardness. The `v2026` baseline gives it `5` in Food, `5` in Energy, `5` in Demographics, `3` in Technology, and only `2` in Security. That pattern is persuasive. Brazil has continental scale, extraordinary agricultural productivity, strong hydro and offshore energy optionality, and one of the best long-run demographic setups outside the major Asian powers. But it does not convert those strengths into military deterrence, alliance leverage, or great-power coercive reach. Brazil is resilient without being hard.
That distinction is exactly why Brazil matters. In a fragmented world, Brazil looks better than many richer countries on basic national survivability. It can feed itself, export food, generate large amounts of energy domestically, and benefit from a still-healthy working-age structure. But if the world becomes more openly coercive, the country’s weak Security score becomes the governing constraint. Brazil has the material base of a major power and the strategic posture of a state that still assumes distance is protection.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 3.76 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 87.5 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.58) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 95.3 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.14) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 50.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.1) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.8 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (none) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/br/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/br/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/br/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/br/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/br/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/br/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/br/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/br/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## How To Read Brazil
- Start with Food and Energy. Brazil’s real strategic value comes from physical abundance, not from institutional or military dominance.
- Treat Security as the country’s binding weakness. It is the main reason Brazil scores lower than its material base might suggest.
- Read Technology as a middle-power bottleneck. Brazil has industrial capacity, but not enough frontier depth to convert resource wealth into systemic leadership.
- Read Demographics as one of the best medium-term assets in the Western Hemisphere outside the United States.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 87.5 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.58) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 95.3 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.14) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 50.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.1) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.8 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (none) |
## Core Thesis
Brazil is materially stronger than its geopolitical posture. It has the land, water, agricultural throughput, energy optionality, and demographic base to remain one of the safer large states in a world of fractured supply chains. On basic survival questions, Brazil is unusually well-positioned. That is why the country still prints a strong composite score despite a very weak Security factor.
The catch is that Brazil does not turn those underlying strengths into hard strategic leverage. It lacks nuclear deterrence, spends relatively little on military power, and does not sit inside a binding alliance structure that meaningfully substitutes for autonomous hard power. The result is a country that is well-insulated against many material shocks but less credible in a world where coercion, denial, and force posture matter more.
## What Drives The Country
Food and Energy are the immediate anchors. Brazil can feed itself and much of the world, and it has one of the most attractive mixes of domestic energy resources among major developing economies. Demographics extends the runway by giving Brazil a labor and consumption base that still has time to mature. Technology is middling, which limits upward conversion. Security is the decisive drag because it constrains how much geopolitical agency Brazil can exercise when the environment hardens.
## What Makes Brazil Different
- Brazil is a food and energy power without being a military power.
- It is less import-fragile than Europe or East Asia on basic inputs, but much less coercively secure than the United States, China, or Russia.
- It has better long-run demographic shape than many advanced economies.
- It remains unusually exposed to fertilizer dependence despite being a global agricultural superpower.
## Bottom Line
Brazil reads as one of the most naturally resilient large countries in the system and one of the most under-armed relative to its scale. That combination makes it attractive in slow fracture and commodity-repricing scenarios, but less robust in openly militarized or alliance-driven scenarios.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/br/energy|Energy]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 95.3
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 1.14 | 93.7 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Why Energy Matters More Than It Gets Credit For
Brazil’s energy story is one of the most underrated pieces of the national profile. The country combines domestic hydrocarbons with large hydroelectric capacity and meaningful renewable optionality. That creates a more diversified and internally buffered energy base than most major emerging markets enjoy. The `5/5` is deserved. Brazil is not an energy-poor industrializer. It is a country with real room to maneuver.
This matters because energy is the factor that protects Brazil from being purely a commodity appendage. A food superpower that imports large amounts of fuel remains strategically constrained. Brazil avoids much of that trap. Domestic energy depth improves trade resilience, supports industrial activity, and lowers the probability that a global shipping shock immediately turns into domestic crisis.
## The Real Risks
The energy problem is less about volume than about execution. Brazil still depends on infrastructure quality, grid resilience, investment continuity, and political willingness to build and maintain the systems that connect resources to consumers. A strong energy endowment can be squandered through poor transmission, weak refining logic, or policy volatility.
The second issue is that energy strength does not by itself create hard power. Brazil can be secure on fuel while remaining strategically soft. That is why its Energy score is so high and its Security score so low. The country has the physical base for resilience, but not the coercive posture that usually accompanies comparable scale.
## Strategic Read
Energy is one of the reasons Brazil looks attractive in longer-duration fragmentation scenarios. It lowers vulnerability to external fuel coercion and gives the country more policy room than many peers. It does not solve the national profile, but it removes one of the most common failure modes.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/br/index|Brazil]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 2/5
- Continuous score: 20.8
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | none | 20.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 74.5 | 45.5 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 0.97 | 19.5 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 0.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Why Security Is The Drag
Security is the factor that keeps Brazil from reading like a true top-tier sovereign. The country is large, distant from major war zones, and not immediately threatened by hostile great-power neighbors. That creates a certain comfort. But in Five Factor terms, comfort is not the same thing as deterrence. Brazil lacks nuclear immunity, does not sit within a hard alliance structure, and spends too little on military capability for a country of its scale. The `2/5` is harsh, but directionally correct.
This should not be read as “Brazil is unsafe” in the everyday sense. Brazil is relatively insulated by geography. It should be read as “Brazil has limited ability to shape outcomes when the system becomes openly coercive.” That is a different and more strategic definition of security, and it is the one the framework is trying to capture.
## Where The Score Overstates Weakness
The framework probably understates the value of geographic distance and the absence of immediate peer conflict in South America. Brazil does not need the same level of military readiness as states sitting next to nuclear rivals or on exposed maritime fault lines. It can get away with more softness than countries in Europe, East Asia, or the Gulf can.
But that geographic comfort is also why the weakness matters. Brazil has allowed benign regional conditions to substitute for sovereign hardening. If the external environment becomes more transactional and militarized, Brazil has less ready leverage than its material scale would suggest.
## Strategic Read
Security is Brazil’s main missing leg. The country has enough Food, Energy, and Demographics to matter far more than it currently does. What it lacks is the hard-power and alliance architecture that would let it convert those advantages into geopolitical weight on demand.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 87.5
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 1.58 | 100.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 1.04 | 79.2 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.96 | 4.0 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## The Central Contradiction
Brazil is one of the world’s strongest food systems and one of the clearest examples of why food sufficiency cannot be read only from production volumes. The country can produce enormous agricultural surpluses, has favorable land and water conditions, and faces negligible cereal import dependence. On that basis alone, the `5/5` makes sense. Brazil is not a country that should fear near-term caloric scarcity.
But the fertilizer number is the critical caveat. Brazil’s agricultural machine is globally competitive while remaining highly dependent on imported nutrient inputs. That means Brazil’s food system is strong at the output layer and vulnerable at the input layer. In normal conditions the country looks like a food superpower. In fertilizer shock scenarios it looks more brittle than its export profile suggests. This is one of the best examples in the whole dataset of why second-order dependencies matter.
## What The Score Gets Right And Wrong
The score correctly captures the dominant reality: Brazil can feed itself and remain one of the world’s most important food exporters. It also captures that water is not the primary national constraint. What it underweights is how much the fertilizer dependency can matter for yield, margin, and crop mix under real stress. If imported nutrient flows are impaired long enough, Brazil’s food position degrades from “export powerhouse” to “still functional, but structurally constrained.”
That does not mean Brazil ceases to be food-secure. It means the country’s role in the world food system becomes less certain exactly when global prices would be rising. That is strategically important. Brazil’s agricultural edge is real, but it is not fully autonomous.
## Strategic Read
Food is one of Brazil’s best sovereign assets, but it is not a simple story of abundance. The real read is: Brazil owns one of the best agricultural endowments in the system, and preserving that edge depends on input security, logistics, and trade-financing continuity. In a fractured world, fertilizer access becomes the variable that separates “food giant” from “food giant under stress.”
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 50.7
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 12.1 | 48.4 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 11.1 | 64.4 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.37 | 57.4 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 22.3 | 29.8 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## The Middle-Power Ceiling
Brazil’s Technology score is the classic middle-power result. The country has real industrial capability, a large domestic market, and enough technical depth to avoid total dependency. But it does not have the frontier manufacturing concentration, R&D intensity, or patent density needed to become a decisive technology pole. The `3/5` is appropriate. Brazil is not technologically weak in an absolute sense. It is technologically incomplete relative to its size.
That matters because Brazil’s other advantages would be far more powerful if the country had a stronger technology stack. Food and energy abundance give Brazil a platform. Technology determines whether the country can move up the value chain instead of remaining primarily a high-quality supplier of land-, mineral-, and energy-intensive goods.
## Where The Score Is Too Harsh
The framework may understate Brazil’s ability to build selectively competitive sectors over time. Large domestic demand, a still-favorable demographic profile, and strategic interest in reindustrialization can support progress in industrial software, aerospace-adjacent capabilities, ag-tech, grid tech, and mining-linked processing. Brazil does not need to become a semiconductor superpower to meaningfully improve its technology posture.
But the broader point remains: the country’s technological depth is not yet strong enough to let it dictate standards, dominate critical manufacturing nodes, or convert material abundance into full-spectrum national leverage. Brazil still depends too heavily on imported capital goods, foreign platforms, and external productivity frontiers.
## Strategic Read
Technology is the factor that separates Brazil from the top sovereign tier. It is not broken, but it is not yet strong enough to make Brazil a true systems country. The upside exists. So does the risk of staying permanently stuck in the middle.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 88.5
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.69 | 97.7 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 33.9 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 15.3 | 69.4 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Why Demographics Is A Real Edge
Brazil’s demographic position is one of its most underappreciated strategic assets. The country still has a large working-age population, a broad internal market, and more runway than many advanced economies that are already aging into higher dependency burdens. The `5/5` is justified. Brazil is not yet trapped by old-age dynamics, and that matters enormously for labor supply, domestic demand, and fiscal flexibility.
The key point is not just that Brazil has people. It is that Brazil still has time. Countries with decent age structure can fix institutions, build infrastructure, deepen capital markets, and upgrade industry while the demographic tailwind is still present. Countries that lose that window first do not get another easy chance. Brazil remains inside the favorable part of that curve.
## Where The Score Needs Context
Demographic strength is only valuable if it can be translated into productivity. Brazil still has uneven education outcomes, regional disparities, infrastructure gaps, and governance frictions that limit how much of the working-age base is converted into high-productivity output. The framework sees the age structure clearly. It is less effective at measuring the quality of human-capital deployment.
That means Demographics should be read as potential rather than automatic performance. Brazil has the human-scale foundations for resilience and growth. It still needs institutional execution to turn that into persistent national leverage.
## Strategic Read
Demographics is one of the main reasons Brazil deserves attention as a long-duration winner in a fragmented but not fully militarized world. The country has time, scale, and labor depth. Those are precious assets. They do not guarantee success, but they keep Brazil in the game longer than many peers.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 87.5 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.58) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 95.3 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.14) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 50.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.1) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.8 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (none) |
## Where The Framework Works Well
Brazil is an excellent case for the framework because it shows how a country can be physically sovereign but strategically incomplete. The model captures the big picture very well: Brazil is unusually strong on Food, Energy, and Demographics, respectable but not dominant on Technology, and clearly weak on Security. That is almost exactly the national story.
The framework is especially useful in showing that Brazil’s profile is fundamentally different from import-dependent rich countries. Brazil has the raw ingredients to remain resilient in a more fragmented global system. It does not begin from scarcity. It begins from abundance and asks whether that abundance can be converted into durable national leverage.
## Where The Framework Is Weak
The biggest weak spot is that the model compresses different types of security into a single score. Brazil is not facing an immediate invasion problem, and that matters. The country’s low Security score is best interpreted as low coercive leverage and low hard-power deterrence, not as acute battlefield exposure.
The second weakness is that the model does not fully capture state capacity and political execution. Brazil’s upside depends heavily on whether it can build logistics, preserve investment discipline, and manage the institutional complexity of a continental democracy. Those variables sit partly outside the five factors.
## Biggest Blind Spot
The main blind spot is internal coordination quality. Brazil has the raw material to be much stronger than it is. The question is whether it can align infrastructure, capital, industrial policy, and strategic ambition well enough to upgrade from resilient middle power to genuine pole. The current framework hints at that through Technology and Security, but it does not measure it directly.
## Final Judgment
For Brazil, Five Factor Analysis is strongest when it answers the right high-level question: can this country remain materially functional in a fractured world? The answer is yes. It is weaker when it moves from material resilience to state performance. Brazil’s challenge is not whether it has enough. It is whether it can organize what it has.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/br/index|Brazil]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 87.5 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.58) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 95.3 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.14) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 50.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.1) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.8 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (none) |
## Investment Translation
Brazil is a classic “real assets plus under-conversion” story. The bull case is obvious: agricultural scale, water, energy depth, demographic runway, minerals, and a domestic market large enough to support local champions. In a world where access to food, power, and strategic materials matters more, Brazil should screen well.
The problem is that Brazil’s strongest investment themes often require institutional execution that cannot simply be assumed. Logistics, ports, transmission, processing capacity, fertilizer security, and industrial upgrading all depend on policy continuity and capital discipline. Brazil’s opportunity set is large because the country is rich in physical advantages. Its discount exists because those advantages are not always translated efficiently.
## Likely Beneficiaries
- Agriculture, ag-logistics, storage, and export-infrastructure businesses tied to Brazil’s food edge.
- Power, grid, and energy-transition assets that benefit from a strong domestic energy base.
- Mining and processing names linked to the country’s broader resource optionality.
- Domestic industrial and automation stories if Brazil can use energy and demographics to deepen local value-add.
## Likely Losers
- Any business model that assumes Brazil’s food strength is immune to fertilizer or shipping-input stress.
- Capital-intensive sectors that require unusually stable regulatory execution and long-duration policy coherence.
- Theses that mistake geographic distance for strategic insulation in a more coercive world.
## What Would Change The View
Brazil becomes much more attractive if it can harden input security, improve logistics, and push Technology from a middling `3/5` toward a durable `4/5`. It becomes structurally more important if Security also rises, whether through stronger defense posture or a more serious strategy of hemispheric and South Atlantic deterrence. Until then, Brazil remains highly attractive as a resilient materials-and-scale story, but less compelling as a state with hard geopolitical leverage.
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# China
This generated Tier 1 package preserves the quantitative baseline for China while leaving the deep analysis open for manual completion. Treat it as the working scaffold, not the finished country study.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** East Asia | **Composite:** 4.37 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Generated:** 2026-03-09
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.89) |
| Energy | 4/5 | 62.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.76) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 95.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (24.9) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/cn/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Manual Completion Checklist
- Write the executive thesis in plain language before expanding the factor chapters.
- Upgrade or dispute any scored baseline that obviously conflicts with strategic reality.
- Add Tier 1 qualitative overlays: alliance reliability, governance quality, social cohesion, swing-state leverage, and process-monopoly exposure.
- Flip `generated: true` to `generated: false` once the country package is manually completed.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.89) |
| Energy | 4/5 | 62.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.76) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 95.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (24.9) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Summarize where the Five Factor framework fits, strains, and fails for this country. Anchor the prose in the current score pattern and in the country’s strategic role.
## Required Calls
- Where does this country sit inside a fractured world order?
- Which factor is the real strategic driver, and which factors are mostly downstream?
- What makes this country different from its bloc peers?
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/cn/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 62.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.76 | 57.4 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.24 | 76.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full energy section. Cover domestic production, import dependencies, refining/logistics exposure, chokepoints, and how energy shapes every other factor.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 64.9
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | confirmed arsenal | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 65.1 | 54.9 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 1.71 | 34.2 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 0.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full security section. Cover nuclear status, alliance quality, force posture, geography, chokepoints, and which vulnerabilities are hard circuit-breakers.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 62.3
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.89 | 52.5 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.09 | 90.9 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 2.80 | 44.0 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full food section. Cover caloric base, cereal dependence, fertilizer exposure, water constraints, and how quickly food stress would become politically binding.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 95.6
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 24.9 | 99.5 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 26.3 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.26 | 90.4 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1010 | 69.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full technology section. Cover manufacturing depth, export mix, critical bottlenecks, R&D base, and which external dependencies matter in a fracture scenario.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 85.6
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.69 | 96.4 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 39.1 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 20.7 | 59.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full demographics section. Cover age structure, labor-force depth, migration, human-capital constraints, and how much this factor matters on the relevant time horizon.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.89) |
| Energy | 4/5 | 62.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.76) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 95.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (24.9) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Evaluate where the Five Factor framework genuinely explains this country, where it overfits, and which variables still sit outside the model.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.89) |
| Energy | 4/5 | 62.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.76) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 95.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (24.9) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Translate the country analysis into investable implications, structural beneficiaries, likely losers, and what must be true for the thesis to break.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/cn/index|China]]*
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# France
France is not a pure self-sufficiency state, but it is one of the few European powers that still combines an independent food base, a sovereign military core, a meaningful industrial stack, and enough political scale to shape the bloc around it rather than merely react to it. The country’s strategic position rests on the fact that its strongest factors are the ones that matter most in a fractured order: food remains durable, security is genuinely sovereign by European standards, and demographics are manageable rather than collapsing. The weak point is energy. France is buffered by nuclear electricity, but it still imports too much fuel and carries too much dependence on a broader European logistics and regulatory system to be treated as fully insulated.
The right way to read France is therefore not as a miniature United States and not as a generic EU member. It is a continental hinge power inside a bloc that is structurally stronger in aggregate than in execution. France can absorb shocks better than most of Europe because it has domestic agriculture, a defense-industrial tradition, a nuclear arsenal, overseas reach, and a state that still thinks in strategic terms. But it cannot turn those assets into full-spectrum autonomy on its own. Its profile is strongest where hard state capacity matters and weakest where upstream energy and growth dynamism matter.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** EU-27 | **Composite:** 3.73 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.1 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.16) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 44.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.53) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 57.8 | VERIFIED | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (23.1) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 62.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.61) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/fr/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Core Thesis
France screens as a high-functioning second-rank power: strong enough to matter in every European crisis, not strong enough to fully decouple from the continent’s shared weaknesses. Its strategic advantage is the combination of state capacity, military sovereignty, food depth, and nuclear electricity. Its strategic drag is the slower-moving European growth model, imported fuel dependence, and the difficulty of turning national power into bloc-wide execution.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.1 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.16) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 44.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.53) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 57.8 | VERIFIED | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (23.1) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 62.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.61) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
France is one of the few European countries where the Five Factor framework tracks strategic reality reasonably well. Food, security, and demographics all show genuine underlying strength. Food is not merely a statistical surplus but a political and territorial asset. Security is not just a NATO proxy score but a real sovereign capability built on nuclear deterrence, expeditionary capacity, defense industry, and a durable state tradition. Demographics are not young in an emerging-market sense, but they are still materially better than the most brittle East Asian or Southern European aging profiles. Those strengths explain why France continues to matter whenever the European order comes under stress.
The factor that most constrains France is energy. The country’s electricity system is stronger than its raw energy score first suggests because nuclear generation reduces exposure to some of the import dependence carried by other European states. But the baseline is directionally right: France is not energy autonomous, still depends on imported hydrocarbons, and remains tied to European infrastructure, pricing, and logistics. Energy therefore acts less as a total collapse point than as the main reason France cannot be treated as a fully sovereign continental system on its own.
Technology is the most arguable middle score. France clearly has more technological depth than a generic mid-tier industrial country. It retains aerospace, defense, nuclear, transport, luxury-brand engineering, and meaningful scientific capacity. But the score captures something important: France’s industrial structure is good, not dominant. It is upstream in some strategic sectors and downstream in others, and it operates inside a broader European production ecosystem that dilutes any claim of complete autonomy. The technology factor is therefore good enough to support power, but not strong enough to override energy weakness or to carry the whole national profile by itself.
The strategic driver in France is security, with food as the quiet stabilizer. Energy is the binding weakness, and technology determines whether France remains a serious power or slowly becomes only a protected European legacy state. France differs from many EU peers because it still retains sovereign hard-power instruments and a national strategic language. It differs from the United States and China because it must convert those tools through a slower, coalition-bound, capital-constrained European system. That is the core tension running through the entire profile.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/fr/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 44.7
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.53 | 41.9 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.47 | 52.9 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Strategic Read
Energy is France’s binding weakness. The country is much better positioned than the median European importer because it has a large nuclear electricity base, a state tradition of treating energy as strategic infrastructure, and the industrial memory to preserve that system even after periods of drift. But the baseline score is still directionally correct: France produces only a little more than half of what it consumes in broad energy terms and remains materially dependent on imported fuels. That means the country has partial insulation, not independence.
The central distinction is between electricity sovereignty and total energy sovereignty. France’s nuclear fleet gives it a structural advantage in power generation, grid stability, and the ability to absorb some kinds of commodity stress better than Germany or Italy. But nuclear electricity does not eliminate the need for oil, gas, refined fuels, petrochemical inputs, or imported energy embedded in the wider European system. In other words, France has a hard-energy anchor but not a complete hydrocarbon answer. The framework captures that gap well.
This matters because energy is the factor that conditions the rest of the profile. If fuel imports become constrained, the cost base of agriculture rises, industrial competitiveness erodes, and the fiscal burden of maintaining strategic sectors increases. A strong security state can manage shortage better than a weak one, but it still has to manage it. France’s energy issue is therefore not that it will go dark immediately. It is that prolonged disruption would turn a strategically serious country into a rationing, subsidy, and prioritization problem much faster than its food and security scores alone would imply.
The main positive offset is that France has one of the clearest available upgrade paths in Europe. Extending nuclear life, rebuilding reactor capacity, electrifying more of the economy, and tightening domestic industrial planning all push in the right direction. The reason energy remains the weakest factor is that those fixes take time, capital, and political consistency. France has the institutional ability to pursue them. It just has not fully closed the gap yet.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 88.7
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | confirmed arsenal | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 28.8 | 91.2 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 2.05 | 40.7 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1.00 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Strategic Read
Security is the clearest reason France belongs in a Tier 1 country-writing track rather than being treated as only another Tier 2 European state. France has a real nuclear deterrent, a defense-industrial base, overseas military infrastructure, and a political tradition of acting strategically even when allied coordination is imperfect. Within Europe, that is rare. It gives France a level of sovereign hard-power credibility that materially exceeds most of its peers.
This factor is stronger than the simple military-spending percentage suggests. France does not dominate because it spends the highest share of GDP. It dominates because it combines alliance participation with an independent deterrent and a state apparatus that still understands force posture as a national instrument. That matters more than raw percentage comparisons. France can project force, shape coalitions, and sustain deterrence in ways that most European countries cannot.
The limitation is scale. France is a serious military power, but not a global system hegemon. Its strength becomes more impressive inside Europe than outside it. Sustained confrontation would still expose dependence on allied industrial depth, logistics, financing, and American military overmatch in the highest-end theaters. France can act alone in some contexts. It cannot replace the full architecture it currently inhabits.
That is why security is both France’s strongest factor and the clearest example of where the Five Factor model needs qualitative interpretation. The score is justified. But what it really captures is not just arsenal and alliance membership. It captures the fact that France remains one of the few states in Europe whose security posture can still anchor national strategy rather than merely protect domestic comfort.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 72.1
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 1.16 | 76.3 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 1.92 | 61.7 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.89 | 11.4 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Strategic Read
France’s food position is real. It is one of the few advanced industrial countries that can still plausibly feed itself at scale while also acting as a stabilizer for its wider region. The combination of caloric surplus and zero cereal import dependence matters more than the headline score alone suggests. In a fractured world, grain and baseline agricultural output are not just domestic welfare variables. They are bargaining power, regime stability, and a buffer against the kind of external coercion that works on import-dependent states.
That said, France is not an autarkic agrarian fortress. The weak fertilizer import reading is the warning inside the otherwise strong food profile. French agriculture is productive, but like every high-output modern agricultural system, it depends on industrial inputs, energy, and functioning logistics. The score is high because the country starts from a strong land-and-output base. The ceiling is lower than a pure calorie story suggests because upstream inputs still matter. That is the right way to interpret this factor: France has a robust agricultural platform, but not an immune one.
Water is a secondary but rising constraint. France is not a high-water-stress state in the way that North Africa or the Gulf are, yet it is also not so hydrologically abundant that climate volatility can be dismissed as noise. Heat, drought, input costs, and political resistance around land use can all squeeze food resilience at the margin. The issue is less famine risk than declining slack. A country can remain a food-surplus power and still find that its agricultural system has become more brittle, more subsidy-dependent, and more politically charged.
On balance, food is one of France’s strongest strategic anchors. It matters because it reduces the number of simultaneous crises the French state has to solve under pressure. A France that can keep food supply and agricultural politics broadly intact has more room to spend capital on energy, defense, and industrial policy. That makes food a stabilizer rather than the decisive growth engine, but in a resilience framework that is exactly what a first-class food factor is supposed to be.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 57.8
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 9.57 | 38.3 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 23.14 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.09 | 83.5 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 197.3 | 64.5 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Strategic Read
France’s technology story is good enough to support major-power behavior, but not strong enough to make France a self-contained technological pole. The country retains serious capability in aerospace, defense, nuclear engineering, transport systems, high-value industrial equipment, and applied science. That is why the complexity and export mix readings are strong. France still produces technically demanding things and still participates upstream in sectors that matter.
The weaker part of the profile is manufacturing depth. France is no longer a broad-spectrum industrial superstate. It has national champions and elite segments, but it does not dominate the whole value chain the way the United States, China, or even Germany in some industrial categories historically have. The result is a technology profile that is impressive in selected nodes and thinner in the middle. That is consistent with the score: France is clearly above average, but not sufficiently dense to claim full technological sovereignty.
This factor also has to be read through the European frame. France gains leverage from being inside a larger industrial bloc, but it also loses clarity because some of the capabilities it relies on are distributed across that bloc rather than controlled nationally. That is tolerable in normal times and less comfortable in hard fragmentation. A French strategic planner can rely on European industrial cooperation as long as the bloc remains politically coherent. The more that coherence weakens, the more France’s national industrial gaps matter.
The net judgment is that France remains technologically relevant because it still has a sovereign state, a research culture, and protected strategic sectors. But its technological strength is not broad enough to compensate for every other weakness. It can still build and maintain serious systems. It cannot assume that being advanced in parts of the stack is the same as controlling the full stack.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 62.0
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.61 | 66.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 41.82 | 72.7 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 35.31 | 39.6 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Strategic Read
France’s demographic position is not youthful, but it is still relatively favorable for an advanced power. The country is aging, yet it has avoided the more severe demographic collapse seen in parts of East Asia and Southern Europe. That matters because France does not need a demographic miracle to remain viable. It needs enough labor depth, social continuity, and fiscal capacity to keep its industrial, military, and welfare systems functioning at the same time. On that test, the baseline remains solid.
The most important point is comparative rather than absolute. France is not winning because its age structure is ideal. It is winning because it is better than many of its peers. A workable working-age ratio, a still-manageable median age, and a less catastrophic trajectory into the 2030s give the state more room to finance defense, industrial policy, and energy transition without confronting immediate demographic insolvency. That is enough to make demographics a support factor rather than a crisis factor.
The drag is obvious too. France does not have abundant labor growth, and its long-term dependency profile is still worsening. This means growth will depend more heavily on productivity, migration management, and the ability to keep a high-skill economy functioning without political fragmentation. Demographics are therefore helpful, but not self-solving. They buy time. They do not eliminate the need for institutional competence.
For France, demographics matter because they preserve optionality. A country with France’s state ambitions needs enough social depth to sustain military spending, a welfare state, and an industrial strategy simultaneously. France still has that base. It just no longer has the slack to waste it casually.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.1 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.16) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 44.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.53) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 57.8 | VERIFIED | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (23.1) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 62.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.61) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
The Five Factor framework explains France better than it explains many countries because France is still a state where hard capacity matters. Food, energy, technology, demographics, and security all map onto real national trade-offs. The model correctly identifies that France is stronger than the median European economy because it has sovereign food capacity, real military power, and a still-usable demographic base. It also correctly identifies that energy is the main bottleneck keeping France from a higher overall autonomy score.
Where the framework is strongest is in showing France as a power with asymmetrical strengths. The country does not dominate every category, but it dominates the right ones often enough to remain strategically relevant. Food is a stabilizer. Security is a force multiplier. Demographics are good enough to keep the state viable. Technology is respectable but not dominant. Energy is the main weakness. That qualitative picture is exactly the one a human analyst would derive before getting lost in detail.
Where the framework strains is in the treatment of bloc membership and political execution. France is both stronger and weaker than its national scores imply because it sits inside the EU. The bloc gives it market scale, industrial partners, and strategic depth. The bloc also imposes coordination drag, capital dilution, and policy compromise. A national score cannot fully capture whether France should be understood as a sovereign power with a European appendage or as the leading hard-power node inside a larger but slower system. The answer changes by domain.
The biggest blind spot is institutional quality of execution. France often knows what it wants strategically, but translating that vision into fast industrial delivery, cheap energy renewal, labor flexibility, and bloc-level alignment is harder. The scorecard can show the ingredients. It cannot fully capture the implementation gap between strategic intent and policy throughput. That is the variable that most determines whether France remains a durable European anchor or becomes a rhetorically ambitious state with shrinking practical leverage.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.1 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.16) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 44.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.53) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 57.8 | VERIFIED | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (23.1) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 62.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.61) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
France is investable less as a high-growth breakout and more as a strategic durability story. The country offers exposure to sectors that benefit from state continuity, defense priorities, nuclear renewal, transport infrastructure, aerospace, and high-value industrial equipment. The best France thesis is not that it will suddenly become the world’s most dynamic economy. It is that in a harsher geopolitical and logistical environment, France remains one of the few European jurisdictions with enough sovereign capacity to matter.
The strongest structural beneficiaries are the areas where French national power and European industrial needs overlap: defense production, nuclear engineering, grid modernization, transport systems, aerospace, and selected agricultural or food-processing chains. These sectors benefit from the same underlying profile shown in the scorecard: a state willing to intervene, a security environment that rewards sovereign capability, and a food-energy-technology mix that still supports industrial policy even when growth is mediocre.
The main caution is that France’s weaknesses are not cyclical. Energy dependence, slower growth, fiscal burden, regulatory drag, and labor-market rigidity all limit how quickly strong strategic intent turns into shareholder-friendly execution. That means France often works better as a relative position than as a pure momentum story. It is stronger than many European peers under stress, but it is not exempt from the broader continental cost of capital, political bargaining, and slow implementation.
The thesis breaks if France loses either side of its hybrid model. If it gives up sovereign ambition, it becomes just another slow European economy. If it keeps sovereign ambition but cannot execute in energy, industrial renewal, and fiscal discipline, it becomes a prestige state with shrinking material base. The attractive version of France is a country that preserves its hard-power edge while selectively rebuilding industrial and energy depth. The risk case is a country that remains strategically articulate but economically overextended.
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# Germany
Germany remains one of the most balanced large economies in Europe, but the balance is less comfortable than its legacy reputation implies. Food resilience is solid, technology remains a real structural edge, demographics are still manageable by advanced-economy standards, and security is high because Germany sits inside the most credible alliance architecture in Europe. The weak point is energy: import dependence and industrial power intensity make energy the factor that most clearly limits German strategic autonomy.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** EU-27 | **Composite:** 3.64 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Scored floor:** Energy (2/5)
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 68.5 | VERIFIED | Cereal import dependency (0.006) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 27.1 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.705) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 77.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.355) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.633) |
| Security | 5/5 | 81.4 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/de/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/de/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/de/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/de/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/de/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/de/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/de/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/de/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
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## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 68.5 | VERIFIED | Cereal import dependency (0.006) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 27.1 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.705) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 77.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.355) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.633) |
| Security | 5/5 | 81.4 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
## Thesis
Germany is a high-end industrial state whose resilience comes from technology depth, institutional quality, and alliance backing rather than from raw resource self-sufficiency. The profile is strong enough to keep Germany in the upper tier of the matrix, but the weak energy score is not a side issue. It is the factor that most clearly explains why Germany can remain rich, advanced, and secure while still being strategically constrained.
## Factor Read
- **Food:** Better than the stereotype of a purely import-reliant post-industrial economy. Germany has a deep agricultural base, negligible cereal import dependence, and enough logistical capacity to keep food from becoming a near-term national constraint.
- **Energy:** The floor factor. Germany's industrial model still depends on imported energy and on stable European market access, which leaves it more exposed than its technological sophistication would suggest.
- **Technology:** The anchor strength. Manufacturing depth, export complexity, and a large engineering base still put Germany near the top of the global industrial hierarchy.
- **Demographics:** Not a crisis in the short run, but no longer a quiet advantage. Aging and a slower labor-force trajectory mean demographics support resilience less than they once did.
- **Security:** High because Germany sits inside NATO and the broader Western security system, not because it independently dominates the coercive spectrum.
## Strategic Read
Germany matters because it remains the industrial center of gravity inside Europe. In a fractured world, that matters more than consumer size alone. But the framework also highlights a limit: Germany is not France or the United States. Its security profile is alliance-enabled and its industrial profile is energy-sensitive. That combination keeps it powerful without making it fully autonomous.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/de/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 2/5
- Continuous score: 27.1
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.295 | 26.3 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.705 | 29.5 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
Germany's energy score is low because the country consumes far more strategic energy than it produces and still relies heavily on imported fuel. That matters more in this framework than absolute income or technological sophistication. A rich industrial state can buy energy in normal markets, but it cannot simply purchase strategic autonomy when supply, prices, or routing become politicized.
This is why energy sits below Germany's technology and security scores. The country's industrial machine is world-class, yet that machine is power-hungry and export-oriented. When imported fuel is expensive or uncertain, the constraint does not stay inside the energy sector. It bleeds into manufacturing competitiveness, household politics, and the fiscal room available for rearmament or industrial policy.
Germany's advantage is that it is not dealing with this weakness from a position of institutional chaos. It still has a sophisticated grid, deep capital markets, and access to the wider European energy system. But that should be read as mitigation, not as a reason to ignore the underlying score. Germany's strategic problem is not the absence of money. It is the absence of a comfortable domestic energy cushion.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 81.4
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | breakout capability | 85.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 24.6 | 95.4 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 1.892 | 37.8 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
Germany's security score is high because the country sits inside the strongest collective security structure in Europe while retaining the industrial, fiscal, and institutional depth to matter inside that system. The score is not primarily a claim about unilateral German military dominance. It is a claim about Germany's position inside a very credible coalition.
That matters because the framework is measuring resilience, not military romanticism. Germany has low fragility, full alliance membership, a large economic base, and the technical capacity to scale defense production if threat conditions force it. Those characteristics are real strengths even if Germany has historically under-invested in front-line hard power relative to its economic size.
The caveat is equally important. Germany's security score should not be read as France-style strategic independence. It is high because of alliance quality and state capacity, not because Germany can comfortably secure itself alone. In any scenario where alliance cohesion weakens materially, this factor would become more conditional than the baseline number suggests.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 68.5
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.962 | 57.5 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.006 | 99.4 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 2.042 | 59.2 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.080 | 92.0 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
Germany scores well on food because it combines a strong domestic agricultural base with exceptionally low cereal import dependence. The country is not a land-abundant agrarian giant, but it is far from the fragile end of the spectrum where imported staples define national stability. That is enough to make food a support factor rather than a source of acute vulnerability.
The score is not perfect because Germany is still a densely populated, industrial economy operating under environmental and water constraints. The food system is efficient, not unconstrained. Water stress and a sub-maximal caloric self-sufficiency figure prevent food from becoming a France-style structural advantage.
The practical takeaway is that Germany does not need food to be extraordinary. It only needs food to be stable while energy and industry remain the real strategic questions. On that narrower test, the country performs well.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 77.9
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 18.007 | 72.0 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 17.977 | 91.9 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.355 | 94.2 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 478.652 | 69.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
Technology is the factor that explains why Germany still carries disproportionate weight inside Europe. The country remains deeply embedded in advanced manufacturing, export complexity, and the engineering disciplines that sit behind machine tools, autos, chemicals, precision components, and industrial automation. This is not startup hype. It is institutionalized industrial competence.
The score is strong because it does not rely on one single niche. Germany combines manufacturing share, export sophistication, and a still-serious innovation base. That gives it a broader platform than countries that look advanced only because of one sector or because they sit in someone else's supply chain.
The limitation is that technology strength does not cancel energy weakness. In Germany's case, the technology score is part of the reason energy matters so much. A country with a thinner industrial base would have less to lose from expensive power. Germany's strength therefore reinforces both its upside and its strategic sensitivity.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 63.6
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.633 | 73.2 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 45.147 | 59.4 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 35.972 | 38.7 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
Germany's demographic score is good enough to support the broader profile, but not good enough to disappear as a strategic issue. The country still has a respectable working-age share and very high human-capital quality, which keeps demographics from becoming an immediate hard stop.
The drag shows up in the age profile. Median age is high and the old-age dependency outlook worsens into the next decade. That matters for fiscal capacity, labor tightness, and the political economy of defense and industrial renewal. Germany can mitigate with immigration, productivity investment, and labor-market reform, but it cannot ignore the trend.
That is why demographics sit below technology and security while still outperforming energy. Germany is not South Korea or Italy on this dimension, but it is also no longer operating with the quiet demographic surplus that underwrote earlier assumptions about effortless industrial continuity.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 68.5 | VERIFIED | Cereal import dependency (0.006) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 27.1 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.705) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 77.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.355) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.633) |
| Security | 5/5 | 81.4 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
Five Factor Analysis explains Germany unusually well because the country is a classic case of a powerful advanced economy whose strongest and weakest dimensions are different parts of the same system. Technology and security explain why Germany remains central inside Europe. Energy explains why that centrality is more conditional than its wealth alone would suggest.
The biggest strength of the framework here is that it resists the lazy conclusion that Germany is either obviously dominant or obviously declining. Both readings miss the structure. Germany is clearly strong in food, technology, and alliance-backed security, but it is also clearly constrained by external energy dependence and a demographic profile that no longer guarantees easy continuity.
The main blind spot is political economy. The model captures the material basis of German resilience better than it captures the speed at which Berlin can convert economic scale into military, industrial, or diplomatic action. In practice, Germany's bottleneck is often not resources but decision speed and political willingness.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 68.5 | VERIFIED | Cereal import dependency (0.006) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 27.1 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.705) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 77.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.355) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.633) |
| Security | 5/5 | 81.4 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
The investable case for Germany starts with accepting the profile as it is rather than as it was. Germany is not an energy-sovereign industrial power. It is an energy-constrained advanced manufacturer with very high embedded competence. That still creates attractive themes, but they cluster around adaptation, not nostalgia.
The strongest themes sit where German technology depth is being redirected toward strategic necessity: industrial electrification, grid equipment, automation, advanced materials, machine tools, and defense-industrial scaling. A second cluster sits around firms that help the country offset its weakest factor, including storage, efficiency, power infrastructure, and industrial software that extracts more output per unit of energy and labor.
The weaker themes are those that assume a return to frictionless cheap energy and unconstrained export manufacturing. Germany can still outperform, but it is more likely to do so through selective high-value industrial renewal than through a simple rebound to the old model.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/de/index|Germany]]*
---
# India
This generated Tier 1 package preserves the quantitative baseline for India while leaving the deep analysis open for manual completion. Treat it as the working scaffold, not the finished country study.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** India Sphere | **Composite:** 3.73 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Generated:** 2026-03-09
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.03) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 52.9 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.64) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 58.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 87.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/in/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/in/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/in/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/in/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/in/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/in/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/in/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/in/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Manual Completion Checklist
- Write the executive thesis in plain language before expanding the factor chapters.
- Upgrade or dispute any scored baseline that obviously conflicts with strategic reality.
- Add Tier 1 qualitative overlays: alliance reliability, governance quality, social cohesion, swing-state leverage, and process-monopoly exposure.
- Flip `generated: true` to `generated: false` once the country package is manually completed.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.03) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 52.9 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.64) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 58.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 87.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Summarize where the Five Factor framework fits, strains, and fails for this country. Anchor the prose in the current score pattern and in the country’s strategic role.
## Required Calls
- Where does this country sit inside a fractured world order?
- Which factor is the real strategic driver, and which factors are mostly downstream?
- What makes this country different from its bloc peers?
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/in/energy|Energy]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 52.9
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.64 | 49.3 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.36 | 63.9 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full energy section. Cover domestic production, import dependencies, refining/logistics exposure, chokepoints, and how energy shapes every other factor.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 64.9
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | confirmed arsenal | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 74.1 | 45.9 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 2.27 | 43.6 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 0.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full security section. Cover nuclear status, alliance quality, force posture, geography, chokepoints, and which vulnerabilities are hard circuit-breakers.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 62.4
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 1.03 | 63.2 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 4.11 | 17.8 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.28 | 71.6 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full food section. Cover caloric base, cereal dependence, fertilizer exposure, water constraints, and how quickly food stress would become politically binding.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 58.7
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 12.6 | 50.4 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 18.6 | 94.3 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.72 | 68.6 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 18.6 | 27.5 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full technology section. Cover manufacturing depth, export mix, critical bottlenecks, R&D base, and which external dependencies matter in a fracture scenario.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 87.2
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.68 | 92.1 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 28.1 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 10.2 | 79.7 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full demographics section. Cover age structure, labor-force depth, migration, human-capital constraints, and how much this factor matters on the relevant time horizon.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.03) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 52.9 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.64) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 58.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 87.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Evaluate where the Five Factor framework genuinely explains this country, where it overfits, and which variables still sit outside the model.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.03) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 52.9 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.64) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 58.7 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 87.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Translate the country analysis into investable implications, structural beneficiaries, likely losers, and what must be true for the thesis to break.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/in/index|India]]*
---
# Iran
This generated Tier 1 package preserves the quantitative baseline for Iran while leaving the deep analysis open for manual completion. Treat it as the working scaffold, not the finished country study.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** Middle East | **Composite:** 3.90 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Generated:** 2026-03-09
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 47.6 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.79) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.32) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 3/5 | 55.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/ir/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Manual Completion Checklist
- Write the executive thesis in plain language before expanding the factor chapters.
- Upgrade or dispute any scored baseline that obviously conflicts with strategic reality.
- Add Tier 1 qualitative overlays: alliance reliability, governance quality, social cohesion, swing-state leverage, and process-monopoly exposure.
- Flip `generated: true` to `generated: false` once the country package is manually completed.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 47.6 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.79) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.32) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 3/5 | 55.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Summarize where the Five Factor framework fits, strains, and fails for this country. Anchor the prose in the current score pattern and in the country’s strategic role.
## Required Calls
- Where does this country sit inside a fractured world order?
- Which factor is the real strategic driver, and which factors are mostly downstream?
- What makes this country different from its bloc peers?
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/ir/energy|Energy]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 100.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2022
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 1.32 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full energy section. Cover domestic production, import dependencies, refining/logistics exposure, chokepoints, and how energy shapes every other factor.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 55.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | breakout capability | 85.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 85.4 | 34.6 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 2.01 | 40.1 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 0.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full security section. Cover nuclear status, alliance quality, force posture, geography, chokepoints, and which vulnerabilities are hard circuit-breakers.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 47.6
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.79 | 45.7 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.32 | 68.1 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 4.65 | 6.9 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full food section. Cover caloric base, cereal dependence, fertilizer exposure, water constraints, and how quickly food stress would become politically binding.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 61.4
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 20.6 | 82.4 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 0.81 | 8.1 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | -0.07 | 48.7 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 115 | 55.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full technology section. Cover manufacturing depth, export mix, critical bottlenecks, R&D base, and which external dependencies matter in a fracture scenario.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 89.6
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.69 | 97.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 32.9 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 11.4 | 77.1 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full demographics section. Cover age structure, labor-force depth, migration, human-capital constraints, and how much this factor matters on the relevant time horizon.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 47.6 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.79) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.32) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 3/5 | 55.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Evaluate where the Five Factor framework genuinely explains this country, where it overfits, and which variables still sit outside the model.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 47.6 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.79) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.32) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.6 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.69) |
| Security | 3/5 | 55.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Translate the country analysis into investable implications, structural beneficiaries, likely losers, and what must be true for the thesis to break.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/ir/index|Iran]]*
---
# Japan
This generated Tier 1 package preserves the quantitative baseline for Japan while leaving the deep analysis open for manual completion. Treat it as the working scaffold, not the finished country study.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** East Asia | **Composite:** 2.99 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Generated:** 2026-03-09
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 60.6 | ESTIMATED | Water stress (1.97) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 12.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.13) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 84.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 46.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.59) |
| Security | 4/5 | 78.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/jp/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Manual Completion Checklist
- Write the executive thesis in plain language before expanding the factor chapters.
- Upgrade or dispute any scored baseline that obviously conflicts with strategic reality.
- Add Tier 1 qualitative overlays: alliance reliability, governance quality, social cohesion, swing-state leverage, and process-monopoly exposure.
- Flip `generated: true` to `generated: false` once the country package is manually completed.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 60.6 | ESTIMATED | Water stress (1.97) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 12.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.13) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 84.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 46.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.59) |
| Security | 4/5 | 78.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Summarize where the Five Factor framework fits, strains, and fails for this country. Anchor the prose in the current score pattern and in the country’s strategic role.
## Required Calls
- Where does this country sit inside a fractured world order?
- Which factor is the real strategic driver, and which factors are mostly downstream?
- What makes this country different from its bloc peers?
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/jp/energy|Energy]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 1/5
- Continuous score: 12.7
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.13 | 12.7 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.87 | 12.7 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full energy section. Cover domestic production, import dependencies, refining/logistics exposure, chokepoints, and how energy shapes every other factor.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/jp/index|Japan]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 78.7
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | breakout capability | 85.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 30.5 | 89.5 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 1.37 | 27.4 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1.00 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full security section. Cover nuclear status, alliance quality, force posture, geography, chokepoints, and which vulnerabilities are hard circuit-breakers.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/jp/index|Japan]]*
---
## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 60.6
- Confidence: ESTIMATED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 1.97 | 60.6 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.35 | 64.8 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full food section. Cover caloric base, cereal dependence, fertilizer exposure, water constraints, and how quickly food stress would become politically binding.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 84.4
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 20.6 | 82.3 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2023 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 17.6 | 90.2 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.69 | 100.0 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1770 | 69.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full technology section. Cover manufacturing depth, export mix, critical bottlenecks, R&D base, and which external dependencies matter in a fracture scenario.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 46.0
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.59 | 55.4 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 49.0 | 44.2 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 50.1 | 19.9 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full demographics section. Cover age structure, labor-force depth, migration, human-capital constraints, and how much this factor matters on the relevant time horizon.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 60.6 | ESTIMATED | Water stress (1.97) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 12.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.13) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 84.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 46.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.59) |
| Security | 4/5 | 78.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Evaluate where the Five Factor framework genuinely explains this country, where it overfits, and which variables still sit outside the model.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 60.6 | ESTIMATED | Water stress (1.97) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 12.7 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.13) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 84.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.6) |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 46.0 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.59) |
| Security | 4/5 | 78.7 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (breakout capability) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Translate the country analysis into investable implications, structural beneficiaries, likely losers, and what must be true for the thesis to break.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
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# Russia
Russia scores as one of the clearest examples of what the Five Factor framework is good at capturing: a state with extreme strength in physical sovereignty and coercive capacity, but obvious limits once the analysis shifts from extraction and violence to innovation and renewal. The `v2026` baseline gives Russia `5` in Food, `5` in Energy, `5` in Security, `4` in Demographics, and `3` in Technology. That pattern is directionally right. Russia is not a balanced great power. It is a resource-military power with large territorial depth, nuclear immunity, and a commodity base strong enough to survive isolation far longer than most middle powers. Its constraint is not basic sufficiency. Its constraint is the quality of the system built on top of that sufficiency.
The framework’s most important insight for Russia is that Energy and Security are upstream factors while Technology and Demographics are downstream constraints. Russia can still force outcomes because it retains nuclear deterrence, hydrocarbon depth, agricultural scale, and a state apparatus optimized for coercion rather than efficiency. But those strengths do not automatically convert into civilian technological dynamism, broad capital formation, or demographic renewal. Russia can remain strategically dangerous and economically brittle at the same time. That is the correct way to read this profile.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU]] | **Composite:** 4.32 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 89.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.32) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.75) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.9 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.3) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.66) |
| Security | 5/5 | 89.3 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/ru/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## How To Read Russia
- Start with Energy and Security. Those two factors explain why Russia remains systemically relevant despite sanctions, weak productivity, and demographic drag.
- Read Technology as the ceiling on Russian power, not proof of near-term collapse. Russia does not need frontier dominance to remain a formidable disruptor.
- Read Demographics as a medium-term decay channel. It matters over a decade, but it does not neutralize Russia’s immediate coercive capacity.
- Read Food as a stabilizer. Agricultural sufficiency gives the regime more room to absorb shocks than many industrial importers would have.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
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## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 89.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.32) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.75) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.9 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.3) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.66) |
| Security | 5/5 | 89.3 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Core Thesis
Russia is a hard sovereign, not a high-functioning one. It can feed itself, power itself, defend itself, and impose costs on neighbors at a level most states cannot match. That is why the framework gives it an unusually high composite score. But the same scorecard also exposes Russia’s ceiling. The modern power stack that matters for long-run compounding lives in Technology and Demographics, and Russia is materially weaker there than its Food, Energy, and Security profile would imply.
The strategic implication is that Russia is best understood as a denial power. It can spoil, coerce, and survive. It can lock in influence through geography, energy, agriculture, arms, and nuclear deterrence. What it is less well-positioned to do is generate the kind of civilian technological ecosystem that underwrites broad-based, compounding national strength. This is the central asymmetry in the Russian case: enormous resilience on the physical layer, mediocre renewal on the productive layer.
## What Drives The Country
Energy is the main upstream variable. It finances the state, shapes foreign policy, supports trade leverage, and gives Russia room to absorb sanctions. Security is the second driver because nuclear deterrence and territorial scale sharply reduce existential vulnerability. Food is a reinforcing factor: the state does not face the kind of import dependence that turns shocks into regime-threatening shortages. Technology and Demographics matter because they determine whether Russia can turn extracted strength into durable modernization. So far, the answer is only partially.
## What Makes Russia Different
- Unlike most commodity powers, Russia combines resource depth with a full nuclear deterrent.
- Unlike most military powers, it also has broad food and fertilizer sufficiency.
- Unlike the United States or China, its technology stack is not strong enough to convert raw sovereignty into a full-spectrum growth model.
- Unlike Europe or Japan, it is not fundamentally import-fragile on basic inputs.
## Bottom Line
Russia should be modeled as one of the hardest countries to break from the outside and one of the hardest countries to reform from the inside. The Five Factor framework is strongest where it captures that distinction. Russia is resilient in the brutal sense of the word. It is much less compelling as a model of compounding national efficiency.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/ru/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 100.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2022
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 1.75 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
## Why Energy Is The Master Variable
Energy is the single most important reason Russia remains strategically relevant. It funds the state, supplies domestic industry, anchors export earnings, and gives Moscow a lever over energy-poor neighbors. The framework’s `5/5` is justified. Russia is not just energy-sufficient. It is energy-surplus at a scale that shapes its geopolitical identity.
This matters across every other factor. Food strength is reinforced by fertilizer and gas-linked input capacity. Security strength is financed by hydrocarbon rents. Technology weakness is partially masked because the state can pay for substitution, arms production, and selective industrial support far longer than a normal importer could. Demographic drag is more manageable when export commodities keep the fiscal base alive.
## The Real Constraint
The core risk is not shortage. It is monetization. Russia’s problem is whether it can convert molecules in the ground into durable state power under sanctions, price caps, shipping frictions, and shifting customer geography. That is a different question from energy self-sufficiency, and it explains why the score should be read as physical resilience rather than clean economic optionality.
Infrastructure directionality matters. Pipelines, terminals, and refining systems are political assets, but they also create path dependence. Once flows are reoriented, bargaining power changes. Russia can still sell energy, but often on worse terms and into narrower strategic channels than before. That does not break the energy story. It changes the quality of the surplus.
## Scenario Lens
In most fracture scenarios, Russia’s energy posture makes it more dangerous rather than more fragile. Maritime disruption hurts importers first. Payment-system fragmentation hurts states that need open financing first. Sanctions work by degrading revenue quality, technology access, and future capacity, not by forcing immediate domestic energy crisis. That distinction is why Russia can look economically constrained and strategically durable at the same time.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 89.3
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | confirmed arsenal | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 80.7 | 39.3 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 7.05 | 96.4 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1.00 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Why The `5/5` Holds
Security is Russia’s most obvious top-tier factor. Nuclear deterrence alone changes the entire strategic calculation. Russia cannot be coerced the way non-nuclear states can be. Add in territorial depth, a large military establishment, operational tolerance for losses, and a governing system that is willing to prioritize coercive instruments over welfare, and the result is a country that remains one of the hardest military problems in the system.
The military expenditure metric is directionally useful even though it does not by itself prove efficiency. Russia can still project force, absorb punishment, and threaten escalation. Those are the relevant facts for a fracture framework. The question is not whether the Russian security apparatus is elegant. The question is whether it can still impose hard constraints on other actors. It clearly can.
## Where The Score Is Too Generous
The alliance metric flatters Russia if it is read too literally. Russia has partners, clients, and tactical alignments. It does not have an alliance network remotely comparable in depth, redundancy, or institutional trust to the U.S.-led system. Its security relationships are more coercive and more contingent. That matters in prolonged conflict or technological competition.
The Fragile States score points in the opposite direction: internal governance and institutional quality are weaker than a raw military reading suggests. Russia is secure against external regime change; it is not secure against cumulative institutional degradation. That is a very different type of insecurity, but it belongs in the read.
## Strategic Read
Security is the factor that makes Russia greater than the sum of its civilian parts. Without nuclear weapons and a high-intensity coercive apparatus, Russia would read as a large commodity power with middling industrial depth. With them, it remains a decisive actor in European and Eurasian security. That gap between civilian capacity and coercive capacity is the essence of the Russian profile.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 89.4
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 1.32 | 88.3 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 1.17 | 76.6 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## What The Score Gets Right
Russia’s food position is structurally strong. It has land, grain scale, fertilizer depth, and a climate profile that is difficult but not systemically water-constrained in the way that Middle Eastern or North African food systems are. The baseline captures the core point: Russia is not merely food-secure in a consumption sense; it is food-strategic in a geopolitical sense. Grain and fertilizer exports give it external leverage as well as domestic stability.
The zero cereal import dependency matters. In a fractured world, states that can feed themselves with domestic grains and domestic nutrient input have a much wider policy menu than those that rely on maritime import chains. Russia can absorb sanctions, freight disruptions, and payment frictions in food far better than most industrial economies. That does not make it invulnerable, but it does remove one of the fastest routes from external shock to internal political stress.
## What The Score Misses
The main blind spot is distribution and climate variability across a very large territory. Russia’s food resilience is not a smooth national average. It depends on transport, storage, fertilizer, and labor across long distances and harsh conditions. The state’s food strength is real, but it is still mediated by rail networks, port access, river systems, and weather volatility.
The second blind spot is that agricultural power is politically useful only if export controls are available when needed. Russia can weaponize food and fertilizer availability, but that also means counterparties will treat Russian supply as political rather than purely commercial. That can accelerate diversification away from Russian inputs over time even if the short-run leverage remains real.
## Strategic Read
Food is one of the regime’s quiet stabilizers. It lowers the probability that external pressure translates into domestic scarcity, and it gives Moscow a commodity tool that works well beyond its immediate neighborhood. In a prolonged fracture scenario, Russian food resilience matters less because it makes Russia rich and more because it makes Russia difficult to corner.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 54.9
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 13.3 | 53.0 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 9.73 | 58.9 | World Bank WDI | 2021 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.25 | 54.9 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 135 | 58.1 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Why This Is The Binding Constraint
Technology is where the Russian system stops looking like a top-tier power and starts looking like a constrained extractor with specialized military-industrial competence. The `3/5` score is fair. Russia retains meaningful industrial depth, engineering tradition, defense production capability, and a scientific legacy. But it does not sit near the frontier of broad civilian manufacturing complexity, semiconductor autonomy, or high-productivity commercial innovation.
That distinction matters because modern sovereignty is not only about having steel, oil, and guns. It is about control over machine tools, chips, software, industrial electronics, precision manufacturing, and the institutional ecosystem that keeps those sectors compounding. Russia has pockets of excellence and high tolerance for improvisation. It does not have the kind of integrated civilian technology stack that the United States, East Asia, or parts of Europe still possess.
## Where The Score Understates Russian Capacity
The framework does not fully capture wartime adaptation, defense-industrial prioritization, or the state’s willingness to accept low civilian efficiency in exchange for strategic output. Russia can produce enough in selected sectors to remain operationally dangerous. It can also substitute through gray markets, third-country routing, and design simplification more aggressively than peacetime efficiency models imply.
But those are not signs of technological abundance. They are signs of a system that can endure scarcity by sacrificing quality, productivity, and consumer welfare. Over time, that trade becomes compounding. The problem is not whether Russia can keep producing. It is whether it can keep climbing.
## Bottom Line
Technology is the ceiling on Russian power. It does not erase Russia’s current threat profile, but it does limit Russia’s ability to convert hard sovereignty into a high-performing modern economy. In that sense, Technology is the most important non-obvious factor in the Russian profile.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 76.7
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.66 | 83.5 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 39.5 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 25.2 | 53.1 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## The Short-Version Read
Russia’s demographics are not catastrophic in the immediate sense, but they are clearly unfavorable for long-run renewal. The country still has a meaningful working-age base and enough scale to sustain major institutions. That supports the `4/5`. But the trend is not one of easy replenishment. Russia faces aging, uneven regional depopulation, health drag, and a talent-retention problem that interacts with sanctions and political closure.
Demographics matter less than Energy and Security in the current decade because Russia can still mobilize from a large stock of inherited capacity. Over a longer horizon, Demographics becomes one of the main reasons Russia’s power is likely to be sustained through coercion and extraction rather than broad dynamism. Population quality and composition matter as much as headline totals.
## What The Framework Misses
The model captures age structure better than it captures elite, technical, and entrepreneurial attrition. For Russia, emigration of mobile human capital can matter more than aggregate population decline. A country can maintain a large labor pool and still lose disproportionate amounts of managerial, scientific, and startup talent. That erosion shows up slowly in the quantitative baseline and quickly in system quality.
The second blind spot is regional imbalance. Moscow and a few major urban centers still concentrate much of the country’s high-productivity capacity, while peripheral regions contribute manpower, geography, and resource depth. That mix can sustain a hard state, but it does not automatically create a balanced or innovative one.
## Strategic Implication
Demographics is not Russia’s immediate breaking point. It is the factor that makes every future recovery path harder. Russia can remain militarily relevant and demographically mediocre for a long time. What it cannot do indefinitely is assume that territorial size compensates for aging, health strain, and talent leakage.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 89.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.32) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.75) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.9 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.3) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.66) |
| Security | 5/5 | 89.3 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Where The Framework Works Well
Russia is one of the cleanest arguments for the framework. The five-factor view immediately shows why simple GDP-based or market-based readings miss the point. Russia remains strategically heavyweight because it scores at the top of the hierarchy that matters most in hard fracture scenarios: energy, food, and security. That trio is enough to survive isolation, keep the state fed and armed, and remain relevant to every nearby system.
The framework also correctly identifies Technology as the bottleneck. This is a major strength. A more naive sovereign-resilience model would overrate Russia because it sees the commodity and military layers but misses the long-run cost of mediocre civilian productive depth. The Five Factor layout does not make that mistake.
## Where The Framework Overfits
The model is weaker at distinguishing between different qualities of security and alliance. Russia gets a deservedly high Security score, but the framework compresses several unlike things into one bucket: nuclear deterrence, military spending, force quality, alliance depth, and internal state coherence. Those variables do not move together. Russia is extraordinarily dangerous in some ways and brittle in others.
The model also underweights institutional quality and capital allocation. Russia can be sovereign while remaining inefficient. It can endure while failing to compound. That matters because great-power status in the modern era depends not only on resisting coercion but on renewing industrial and technological capacity over time.
## Biggest Blind Spot
The biggest blind spot is the gap between extractive sovereignty and developmental sovereignty. Russia clearly has the first. It only partially has the second. The framework hints at this through the Technology score, but it does not fully capture how much regime design, legal predictability, and elite incentives shape the ability to turn hard resilience into long-duration national strength.
## Final Judgment
For Russia, Five Factor Analysis is a very strong first-pass model. It explains why Russia is still dangerous, why sanctions alone do not produce collapse, and why the state remains harder to isolate than many richer countries. Its main weakness is that it is better at measuring survivability than modernization.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 89.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.32) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.75) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.9 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.3) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.66) |
| Security | 5/5 | 89.3 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Investment Translation
Russia is not primarily an equity-style compounding story. It is a geopolitical pricing story. The country matters because it can still set marginal prices, force rerouting, constrain supply, and reorder security budgets. The investable consequences therefore often sit outside Russia itself: energy infrastructure elsewhere, fertilizer, grain logistics, defense spending, shipping insurance, and states positioned to replace or intermediate Russian supply.
Direct Russia exposure is always filtered through sanction architecture, property-rights risk, policy opacity, and political event risk. That does not mean there are no opportunities. It means the opportunities are tactical, state-dependent, and highly exposed to external legal regimes. For most investors, the better use of the Russian profile is as a source of second-order effects rather than as a straightforward domestic long thesis.
## Likely Beneficiaries
- Non-Russian energy producers and transport assets that gain from forced diversification.
- Fertilizer, grain, and agricultural-logistics businesses that benefit from Russian supply volatility rather than Russian expansion.
- Defense and industrial names leveraged to higher European and Eurasian security spending.
- Arctic, rail, and port infrastructure stories that reprice when Eurasian routes or sanctions corridors change.
## Likely Losers
- Import-heavy European industry when Russian molecules disappear or become more expensive to access.
- Shipping and insurance channels exposed to sanctions tightening or conflict escalation.
- Any long-duration thesis that assumes Russia quickly normalizes into a stable, market-like capital destination.
## What Would Break The Thesis
The bearish Russia-as-compounder view breaks if the country proves able to rebuild a genuinely competitive civilian technology stack under sanction pressure while retaining its resource base and military autonomy. The bullish Russia-as-persistent-disruptor view breaks only if energy monetization, regime coherence, and coercive capacity all erode together. That is a higher bar. For now, Russia still looks much more like a durable source of geopolitical volatility than a clean internal growth story.
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# Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is one of the clearest asymmetric profiles in the matrix. Energy is elite, demographics are still favorable, and the state has the fiscal capacity to buy time and optionality. But food remains structurally weak, technology is improving from a low industrial base, and security is less comfortable than defense spending alone implies. The kingdom's national resilience still rests on hydrocarbon strength carrying a wider system that has not yet become self-sustaining on its own.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** Middle East | **Composite:** 3.13 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Scored floor:** Food and Security
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 24.2 | VERIFIED | Water stress (4.981) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.782) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 48.7 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (0.499) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 94.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.731) |
| Security | 2/5 | 35.5 | PARTIAL | Military expenditure (% GDP) (7.298) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/sa/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
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## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 24.2 | VERIFIED | Water stress (4.981) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.782) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 48.7 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (0.499) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 94.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.731) |
| Security | 2/5 | 35.5 | PARTIAL | Military expenditure (% GDP) (7.298) |
## Thesis
Saudi Arabia is wealthy, young enough, and energy-dominant enough to remain strategically consequential, but the broader profile is narrower than the headline suggests. The kingdom's hard advantage is hydrocarbons. Everything else is either a work in progress or a structural dependency that energy rents still have to subsidize.
## Factor Read
- **Food:** Weak in structural terms. Saudi Arabia can finance imports, but water scarcity and heavy cereal dependence keep food firmly in the vulnerability column.
- **Energy:** The defining strength. The kingdom has scale, low-cost production, and system-wide pricing importance that few countries can match.
- **Technology:** Improving, but still transitional. The state can build islands of capability faster than it can generate broad industrial sovereignty.
- **Demographics:** A genuine support factor. A high working-age share and relatively low median age provide more room than most advanced economies enjoy.
- **Security:** Better than a failed-state reading would imply, but weaker than the defense budget alone suggests because the kingdom remains exposed, non-nuclear, and alliance-dependent without a fully reliable treaty umbrella.
## Strategic Read
Saudi Arabia is strong where geology and state finance are strongest. The stress begins when the analysis moves away from barrels and toward systems that must endure without perfect external market access. That does not make the kingdom fragile in the colloquial sense. It does mean its resilience is less diversified than its headline wealth implies.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/sa/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 100.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2022
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 2.782 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.000 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2022 |
Saudi Arabia's energy score is straightforward because the kingdom is one of the clearest hydrocarbon powers in the world. It produces far more energy than it consumes, has low-cost extraction, and remains systemically important to global oil markets. In this framework, that is not just a revenue story. It is a resilience story.
Energy strength gives Saudi Arabia room to absorb mistakes and fund strategic experiments that would be impossible for a more import-dependent state. It supports fiscal stability, diplomatic leverage, and the ability to buy military systems, infrastructure, and foreign expertise at scale. That is why the energy factor sits at the ceiling while other factors remain mixed.
The caveat is that energy dominance does not automatically translate into a balanced national profile. Hydrocarbons can fund adaptation, but they do not solve water scarcity, do not create technological depth on their own, and do not erase the security liabilities of regional geography. Energy is the kingdom's core advantage precisely because so much else still depends on it.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 2/5
- Continuous score: 35.5
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | none | 20.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 65.3 | 54.7 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 7.298 | 98.4 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 0 | 0.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
Saudi Arabia's security score is the clearest example in this profile of how spending and resilience are not the same thing. The kingdom spends heavily on defense and has strong reasons to do so, but it remains non-nuclear, geographically exposed, and outside the most formalized alliance structures in the system.
That is why the security score stays low even with very high military expenditure. The model rewards hard guarantees and hard deterrents, not just procurement. Saudi Arabia has regional importance and can defend itself far better than many peers, but it still faces missile threats, maritime exposure around Hormuz and the Red Sea, and the constant question of how reliable outside backing would be in a genuine crisis.
In practice, security is the factor that keeps Saudi Arabia from reading like a simple petro-superpower. It is a major state with real coercive weight, yet it still operates in a neighborhood where proximity, rivalry, and infrastructure vulnerability compress its room for error.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 2/5
- Continuous score: 24.2
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.484 | 25.6 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.941 | 5.9 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 4.981 | 0.4 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.000 | 100.0 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
Saudi Arabia's food score is weak because the kingdom faces a structural ecological constraint, not just a trade-management problem. Water stress is near the worst end of the scale, caloric self-sufficiency is low, and cereal import dependence is extremely high. Those are not the ingredients of food sovereignty.
What Saudi Arabia does have is money, logistics, and state capacity. That matters a great deal in normal conditions and even in many stressed conditions. But the Five Factor framework is deliberately stricter than that. It asks whether a country can maintain core resilience if markets and finance become less cooperative. On that test, Saudi Arabia's food position remains soft.
The cleanest way to read this factor is as an offset to energy dominance. The kingdom can generate enormous cash flow, but it still has to turn that financial power into imported calories and reliable supply chains. Food is therefore the main reminder that resource wealth does not erase physical dependency.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 48.7
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 15.722 | 62.9 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 0.544 | 5.4 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.499 | 60.0 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 45.413 | 38.8 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
Saudi Arabia's technology score sits in the middle because the kingdom is trying to build capability from a position of wealth rather than from a deep inherited industrial ecosystem. Manufacturing share is respectable enough to avoid a weak reading, and the state can mobilize capital quickly. But high-tech export depth and organic innovation remain limited.
This is the difference between imported capability and embedded capability. Saudi Arabia can assemble world-class infrastructure, hire expertise, and push capital into strategic sectors. What it has not yet shown at scale is a broad domestic technology system with the density and complexity of East Asia, Germany, or the United States.
A mid-tier score is therefore the right framing. The country is not technologically hollow, but it is still early in the move from rent-funded modernization to durable industrial sovereignty. The question is less whether it can buy technology than whether it can reproduce, adapt, and defend it domestically under stress.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 94.5
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.731 | 100.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 29.247 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 3.857 | 92.3 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
Demographics are one of Saudi Arabia's clearest strengths. The kingdom still benefits from a very high working-age share, a relatively low median age, and an old-age dependency outlook that looks far better than the one facing Europe or Northeast Asia.
That does not mean the labor picture is automatically healthy. Skill mix, productivity, and the balance between national labor and expatriate labor still matter. But those are second-order questions compared with the basic demographic reality that Saudi Arabia has more workforce runway than most rich or strategically important states.
This factor is important because it buys time. A younger population gives the state a wider window to convert hydrocarbon rents into more durable forms of capability. Whether that conversion succeeds is a technology and governance question. The demographic baseline itself is still clearly favorable.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 24.2 | VERIFIED | Water stress (4.981) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.782) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 48.7 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (0.499) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 94.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.731) |
| Security | 2/5 | 35.5 | PARTIAL | Military expenditure (% GDP) (7.298) |
Five Factor Analysis fits Saudi Arabia very well because the country is defined by asymmetry. The framework makes it impossible to hide behind GDP or sovereign wealth alone. It shows a state that is extraordinary on energy, genuinely favorable on demographics, but still structurally weak in food and more exposed in security than spending figures suggest.
The biggest strength of the framework here is that it separates rents from resilience. Saudi Arabia can pay for imports, military systems, and infrastructure. But the matrix asks whether those advantages would remain durable under system stress. That is exactly the right question for a hydrocarbon monarchy operating in a hard neighborhood.
The main blind spot is regime capacity. Saudi Arabia can sometimes convert state direction and capital into outcomes faster than a standard metric set would imply. That is especially true in infrastructure and selective industrial policy. Even so, the framework is directionally right: the kingdom remains more dependent on one core advantage than a fully balanced power can afford to be.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 24.2 | VERIFIED | Water stress (4.981) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.782) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 48.7 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (0.499) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 94.5 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.731) |
| Security | 2/5 | 35.5 | PARTIAL | Military expenditure (% GDP) (7.298) |
The investable case for Saudi Arabia is strongest where energy rents are being converted into durable strategic infrastructure. Upstream energy, gas, petrochemicals, desalination, logistics, power systems, and defense-linked industrial build-out all map directly onto the country's real strengths and real needs.
The more speculative case is the leap from capital deployment to broad technological sovereignty. There will be winners in digital infrastructure, industrial zones, and selected manufacturing verticals, but the framework argues against treating the whole diversification story as already proven. Mid-tier technology and weak food/security scores are reminders that the economy is still being carried by hydrocarbons.
The best positioning therefore sits with assets that benefit whether diversification succeeds partially or broadly: energy services, water infrastructure, ports, data-center and grid build-out, and firms tied to state-backed logistics and industrial capacity. The weakest positioning sits with narratives that assume Saudi Arabia has already become a post-oil balanced power.
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# South Korea
South Korea is one of the sharpest split profiles in the matrix. Technology is world-class, security is strong by alliance-backed regional standards, and the current demographic snapshot is still surprisingly supportive. But food is weak and energy is the clear system bottleneck. South Korea therefore reads less like a balanced sovereign power than like a highly sophisticated industrial state whose prosperity depends on keeping external supply and alliance systems open.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** East Asia | **Composite:** 2.89 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Scored floor:** Energy (1/5)
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 31.5 | VERIFIED | Fertilizer import dependency (0.793) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 15.4 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.846) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 96.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.562) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 82.8 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.707) |
| Security | 4/5 | 74.3 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/kr/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
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## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 31.5 | VERIFIED | Fertilizer import dependency (0.793) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 15.4 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.846) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 96.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.562) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 82.8 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.707) |
| Security | 4/5 | 74.3 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
## Thesis
South Korea is a top-tier technology state with a bottom-tier energy profile. That contrast explains most of the country story. Korea's industrial system is among the most sophisticated in the world, but it runs on imported energy, imported inputs, and open maritime and financial plumbing. Security is strong enough to support the model, yet that security is itself conditioned by alliance strength and proximity to direct threats.
## Factor Read
- **Food:** Adequate in a wealthy-country sense, but weak in structural self-sufficiency because imported cereals and fertilizers remain central.
- **Energy:** The decisive vulnerability. Korea produces very little of the energy it needs and stays exposed to imported fuel and long maritime supply chains.
- **Technology:** The core national edge. Korea sits at or near the ceiling on manufacturing depth, export sophistication, and industrial complexity.
- **Demographics:** Strong in the current score window because labor share and age structure still support the system more than the popular long-run pessimism implies.
- **Security:** High because Korea is armed, organized, and alliance-backed, but not maximum because geography and North Korean risk never fully disappear.
## Strategic Read
South Korea is what an advanced but externally dependent power looks like. It has immense productive capability and real alliance value, but much of that strength assumes open energy flows and stable external guarantees. The country is therefore best understood as highly capable, not materially comfortable.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/kr/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 1/5
- Continuous score: 15.4
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.154 | 15.4 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.846 | 15.4 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
South Korea's energy score is the hardest single constraint in the profile. The country consumes far more energy than it produces and remains deeply dependent on imported fuel. That is not a marginal issue for a country whose national model revolves around power-intensive manufacturing, large-scale transport, and export continuity.
The weakness matters precisely because everything else is so sophisticated. Korea can build semiconductors, ships, vehicles, batteries, and electronics at world scale, but it does so on top of a narrow domestic energy base. A disruption in fuel import financing, maritime routing, or industrial power costs therefore hits much more than household energy bills. It cuts directly into the operating assumptions of the whole economy.
Korea can mitigate with reserves, refinery capacity, nuclear generation, and alliance-backed sea-lane security. But mitigation is not the same as autonomy. The framework is right to treat energy as a floor factor because the country remains structurally dependent on the outside world to keep its industrial machine running.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 74.3
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | nuclear umbrella | 70.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 31.5 | 88.5 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 2.562 | 47.5 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
South Korea's security score is strong because the country combines a credible alliance, a serious military, and a state apparatus that clearly understands deterrence. It is one of the few non-nuclear industrial states whose security posture remains genuinely central to regional power balance.
The reason the score stops at 4 rather than 5 is geography. South Korea lives under a permanent local threat from North Korea while also sitting inside the wider competition between the United States and China. Alliance quality offsets much of that pressure, but it does not remove it.
Security therefore reads as robust but conditional. Korea is not strategically soft. It is strategically exposed, and that distinction matters. The country is secure because it is armed, allied, and disciplined, not because it can ignore its neighborhood.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 2/5
- Continuous score: 31.5
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.520 | 28.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.737 | 26.3 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 2.381 | 52.4 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.793 | 20.7 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
South Korea's food score is low because the country manages food security through wealth, logistics, and state competence more than through domestic abundance. Caloric self-sufficiency is limited, cereal import dependence is high, and fertilizer dependence is also substantial. Those are the hallmarks of a food system that works well in open conditions but has less buffer under external stress.
This is not a claim that Korea is near food insecurity in the ordinary sense. It is a claim that food resilience is not a strategic strength in the same way technology is. Korea can purchase stability, but the system still depends on open shipping lanes, functioning import markets, and the same international financing and logistics architecture that supports its broader economy.
The result is a familiar Korean pattern: high capability, low material slack. Food is manageable, but it does not become an independent pillar of national resilience.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 96.9
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 26.618 | 100.0 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 36.258 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.562 | 100.0 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 3597.579 | 69.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
Technology is South Korea's defining strength. The country sits at the ceiling on the metrics that matter most for industrial depth: manufacturing share, high-tech exports, and economic complexity. This is not a narrow niche story. Korea has built a national system that can design, produce, and scale advanced goods across multiple sectors.
That matters because it gives the country options most states do not have. Korea is not just participating in global supply chains. It is shaping them in semiconductors, electronics, batteries, shipbuilding, autos, and other advanced manufacturing domains. In any fractured world, that capability becomes even more valuable.
The paradox is that this elite technology score coexists with severe energy weakness. Korea's industrial excellence is real, but it is not self-contained. The technology factor therefore explains both the country's extraordinary upside and the reason external disruption would hit so hard.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 82.8
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.707 | 100.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 44.486 | 62.1 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 25.912 | 52.1 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
South Korea's demographic score looks stronger than the popular narrative because the current metric window still captures a country with a very high working-age share and strong human capital. In other words, the system is still benefiting from the tail of earlier demographic strength even as long-run concerns become more obvious.
That does not mean the problem is imaginary. Median age is already high and the future trajectory is worse than the short-run score suggests. Korea's ultra-low fertility is a real strategic issue. It simply lands more forcefully beyond the current data horizon than inside it.
For now, the right read is that demographics still support the Korean system in the near term while threatening to become a much larger drag later. The 5/5 score should therefore be read as a present-tense result, not as a claim that the long-run demographic outlook is easy.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 31.5 | VERIFIED | Fertilizer import dependency (0.793) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 15.4 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.846) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 96.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.562) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 82.8 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.707) |
| Security | 4/5 | 74.3 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
Five Factor Analysis is especially useful for South Korea because it forces two truths to sit in the same frame. Korea is one of the most technologically advanced states in the world. It is also materially dependent on imported energy and food inputs. Both statements are true, and the framework captures that tension cleanly.
The strongest feature of the model here is the way it prevents technology prestige from hiding logistics reality. A country can dominate high-end manufacturing and still remain vulnerable if its industrial system relies on imported fuel, open sea lanes, and stable alliance guarantees. Korea is a textbook case.
The main blind spot is time horizon. The demographic score is strong because the current data window still rewards Korea's working-age structure. A longer horizon would likely drag the demographic factor lower. That is not a flaw so much as a reminder that the framework is strongest when paired with explicit scenario analysis.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 31.5 | VERIFIED | Fertilizer import dependency (0.793) |
| Energy | 1/5 | 15.4 | PARTIAL | Fuel import dependency (0.846) |
| Technology | 5/5 | 96.9 | VERIFIED | Economic complexity index (1.562) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 82.8 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.707) |
| Security | 4/5 | 74.3 | PARTIAL | Alliance membership (1) |
The investable logic for South Korea is clear and concentrated. The country remains one of the strongest platforms in the world for high-end manufacturing, semiconductors, batteries, advanced autos, shipbuilding, and industrial automation. That is where the upside sits.
The risk is that the same sectors depend on exactly the external systems the framework identifies as weak: imported fuel, imported food inputs, maritime continuity, and alliance-backed security. The best opportunities therefore cluster in technologies that strengthen Korea's existing edge while reducing exposure, including power resilience, nuclear and grid infrastructure, storage, robotics, and supply-chain hardening around strategic manufacturing.
The weaker positioning is any thesis that treats Korean technology leadership as fully insulated from resource and logistics risk. Korea is elite, but it is not self-contained. The most durable winners are the firms and sectors that benefit when Korea spends to protect the industrial base it already has.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/kr/index|South Korea]]*
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# Turkey
Turkey is a hinge state rather than a settled core. It is too large, industrial, and militarily capable to be treated as a peripheral dependency, but too energy-import dependent, politically volatile, and strategically overextended to be treated as a fully self-sufficient pole. In Five Factor terms, that produces a distinctive pattern: strong demographics, credible technology depth, mid-tier food resilience, and substantial security weight, all capped by a weak energy base.
The country’s strategic value comes from position and optionality. Turkey sits on the Bosporus, anchors NATO’s southeastern flank, touches the Black Sea, the eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and the Levant, and can trade with Europe, the Gulf, Russia, and Central Asia without belonging cleanly to any one of those systems. That geography does not make Turkey safe. It makes Turkey relevant. The difference matters. Relevance gives Ankara bargaining power, but it also means that every regional shock lands on Turkish territory, Turkish logistics, or Turkish diplomacy.
The baseline score is therefore coherent. Food at 3 reflects a real domestic agricultural base constrained by water stress and imported fertilizer. Energy at 2 is the hard limiter: Turkey has refining, transit infrastructure, and bargaining leverage, but it still runs on imported hydrocarbons. Technology at 4 captures a genuine manufacturing and defense-industrial platform that is deeper than most regional peers, even if it remains below the frontier in semiconductors, core tooling, and top-tier science. Demographics at 5 are the cleanest structural positive. Security at 4 is real but conditional: Turkey has NATO membership, a large military, a nuclear umbrella, and meaningful indigenous defense capacity, but alliance trust is not the same thing as alliance alignment.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** Middle East / Non-EU Europe | **Composite:** 3.44 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Baseline Rank:** 44
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.0 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.94) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 26.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.28) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 60.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (16.8) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.5 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/tr/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Core Thesis
Turkey matters because it combines scale with leverage. It has enough population, industrial depth, and military capacity to act independently in ways that most middle powers cannot. At the same time, it lacks the energy independence, reserve-currency status, and institutional trust that would let it ignore external pressure for long. The result is a country that can gain influence in periods of fragmentation, but usually by arbitraging between blocs rather than by standing fully outside them.
That is why Turkey often looks stronger in geopolitical crises than in peacetime balance-sheet analysis. In a world of clean globalization, Turkey’s inflation history, policy volatility, and external financing needs attract a discount. In a world of fractured trade routes and contested regional orders, those same flaws matter less than command of geography, domestic defense production, and the ability to operate with Europe, Russia, the Gulf, and the post-Soviet space simultaneously. The upside case for Turkey is therefore geopolitical monetization of its position. The downside case is that the same position forces it to absorb shocks from every direction at once.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
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## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.0 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.94) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 26.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.28) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 60.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (16.8) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.5 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) |
Turkey is best understood as a bargaining state with real hard-power and industrial substance, but with one structural dependency that keeps it from graduating into the first rank: energy. The country’s demographics are still favorable by European and East Asian standards, its manufacturing base is broad enough to sustain autos, machinery, white goods, construction materials, and a meaningful defense-industrial complex, and its security position is strengthened by NATO membership, geography, and control of the Turkish Straits. Those are not cosmetic advantages. They are the foundations of Turkish leverage.
What keeps that leverage from becoming full autonomy is the import bill. Turkey consumes far more energy than it produces, imports most of the gas and oil that make the rest of the economy run, and remains exposed to external pricing, supply interruptions, and financial stress when the lira weakens. This is why the model’s minimum factor is energy, and why Turkey’s otherwise strong profile resolves to a composite in the mid-3s rather than into the top tier. Ankara can hedge among suppliers, build transit relevance, and bargain politically. It cannot yet power itself on its own terms.
That asymmetry explains much of modern Turkish strategy. Ankara tries to compensate for energy dependence and monetary fragility with geopolitical optionality: balancing Russia and NATO, courting Gulf capital, keeping trade channels open to Europe, projecting force into Syria and the eastern Mediterranean, and expanding exportable defense products such as drones, munitions, and naval platforms. These moves are sometimes described as ideological or civilizational. In practice they are often compensatory statecraft. Turkey is trying to turn geography and industrial depth into strategic rents large enough to offset structural import dependence.
The five factors fit Turkey unusually well because the pattern is internally coherent. Food is middling because the country can feed itself in rough caloric terms but cannot ignore water and fertilizer. Technology is higher than many observers assume because Turkey is not just a service economy with assembly plants; it has real production capability, especially in sectors where engineering depth, supplier networks, and state backing matter more than frontier science. Demographics are a major edge today, though not forever. Security is strong, but not unconstrained, because alliance quality is mixed and neighborhood risk is permanently high.
What makes Turkey different from bloc peers is that it belongs to two strategic stories at once. In the Phase 2 bloc model it sits in both `middle_east` and `non_eu_europe`, which is correct analytically rather than awkward administratively. Turkey is not simply a European edge case and not simply a Middle Eastern regional power. It is the state that can still transact with both systems while mistrusting both. That duality raises its value in a fragmented world.
The simplest summary is this: Turkey is a strong middle power with elite geography, a real factory floor, a still-favorable labor profile, and enough military depth to matter in most nearby theaters. It is held back by energy dependency, macro fragility, and chronic pressure from its own region. If fragmentation deepens, Turkey probably gains relevance faster than it gains stability. That is a good formula for strategic importance and a difficult formula for clean compounding.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/tr/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 2/5
- Continuous score: 26.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.28 | 25.3 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.72 | 28.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
Energy is Turkey’s governing weakness. Almost every favorable strategic story about the country eventually runs into the same constraint: it does not produce enough hydrocarbons to support its own economy, and it remains structurally exposed to imported gas and oil. The model’s 2/5 display score is therefore the right anchor for the whole profile. Turkey can compensate for this weakness politically and commercially, but it cannot wish it away.
This dependence matters at several levels at once. At the macro level, imported energy worsens the current account, amplifies pressure on the currency, and feeds inflation whenever global prices spike. At the industrial level, it raises input costs for the manufacturing base that gives Turkey many of its other advantages. At the geopolitical level, it forces Ankara to keep multiple supplier relationships alive even when those relationships cut against other objectives. Energy dependence is not one problem in Turkey. It is the hidden tax on the rest of the system.
The mitigating point is that Turkey is not merely an energy customer. It is also an energy corridor, trading platform, and refining location. Pipelines from Russia, Azerbaijan, and the Caspian system, LNG infrastructure, Black Sea access, and Mediterranean positioning all give Ankara more leverage than a simple import ratio implies. Turkey’s statecraft often works by monetizing that transit role. The country cannot easily detach from surrounding energy systems, but those surrounding systems also cannot easily ignore Turkish territory and infrastructure.
That transit role improves bargaining power, not sovereignty. A corridor state still pays for molecules it does not control. Turkey can negotiate, blend sources, and diversify timing. It cannot fully internalize supply. That is why the energy factor remains the country’s minimum factor even though Ankara looks more sophisticated on energy policy than many import-dependent peers. The issue is not administrative competence. The issue is geological endowment.
The scenario results underline the point. Turkey is not especially vulnerable to `malacca_closure` or `arctic_route_opening`, because those are not its central routes. It is highly vulnerable to `suez_disruption`, where its scenario rank falls sharply and energy display deteriorates. That is exactly what a Mediterranean hinge economy with import dependence should look like. Turkey is close enough to Europe to benefit from rerouting and nearshoring, but too dependent on imported energy and intermediate flows to treat maritime disruption as someone else’s problem.
Another subtle risk is that energy weakness distorts foreign policy. Countries with durable surplus energy can choose when to be ideological. Countries with chronic import dependence must usually be tactical. Turkey’s willingness to keep lines open to Russia, Azerbaijan, Gulf suppliers, and broader Eurasian networks is partly about ambition and partly about necessity. That does not make Turkish autonomy fake. It makes it conditional on maintaining a wide supplier map and enough diplomatic space to keep that map functioning.
The correct qualitative overlay is that energy is the decisive constraint, not a lagging variable. Food weakness can usually be managed. Security friction can often be bargained through. Technology can keep improving incrementally. But if Turkey loses room to source affordable energy, the rest of the five-factor profile degrades quickly. That is why Turkish strategy consistently tries to convert geography into discounts, transit rents, and supply diversification. It is the country’s most important compensatory behavior.
The implication is simple. Turkey is stronger than its energy base suggests because it is clever and well-positioned. It is weaker than its geopolitical posture suggests because imported energy remains the hard ceiling. Any bullish thesis on Turkey that does not explain how Ankara keeps that dependency manageable is incomplete.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 64.5
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | nuclear umbrella | 70.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 81.2 | 38.8 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 1.92 | 38.5 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1.00 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
Turkey’s security profile is strong, but not clean. The 4/5 baseline reflects a country with genuine military capacity, alliance access, strategic geography, and domestic defense-industrial depth. It also reflects a country surrounded by unstable theaters, carrying unresolved internal security issues, and operating inside an alliance relationship defined as much by mistrust as by mutual need.
Start with the hard positives. Turkey controls the Bosporus and Dardanelles, one of the most consequential maritime gate systems in Eurasia. It fields a large conventional military, has operational experience from Syria to the Caucasus, and sits inside NATO with access to the broader Western security system and a nuclear umbrella. Unlike many regional powers, it also produces a meaningful share of its own defense equipment. That combination gives Turkey a real deterrent profile. It is difficult to coerce, difficult to bypass, and hard to exclude from any regional order on the Black Sea or eastern Mediterranean.
The alliance dimension is powerful but conditional. Turkey benefits enormously from formal NATO membership and from the fact that no serious Western planner wants the southeastern flank to collapse. But Ankara is not treated with the same trust as core alliance states, and it does not behave like one. Procurement disputes, strategic autonomy efforts, transactional diplomacy with Russia, and recurrent tensions with Washington and parts of Europe all lower the practical quality of alliance capital even when the formal membership score remains high. In other words, Turkey gets the security benefits of belonging without the full political comfort of alignment.
The domestic and regional threat picture is the offset. Turkey borders or neighbors multiple unstable arenas: Syria, Iraq, the Caucasus, the Black Sea after Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the eastern Mediterranean contest with Greece and Cyprus. It also has a long-running Kurdish security problem and periodic terrorist threats. This is why the Fragile States Index element pulls the factor down and why the security story cannot be reduced to military hardware. Turkey has a capable state, but it inhabits a bad neighborhood and carries persistent internal stress.
The scenario results are useful here. In `gulf_orphan`, Turkey’s security display falls by one notch. That makes sense. Ankara is more secure with a functioning US-led maritime and alliance architecture in the broader Middle East than without it, even if Turkish rhetoric often emphasizes autonomy. Turkey’s security strategy is built around partial independence inside a larger framework, not around true isolation. Remove too much of that framework and Turkey becomes more exposed, not less.
The nuclear score also deserves a precise reading. Turkey is under a nuclear umbrella, which is strategically significant, but it does not control an independent arsenal. That creates a familiar middle-power condition: Ankara enjoys deterrence by association while still needing to worry about the credibility of extended deterrence under stress. In calm periods, that is enough. In a fully broken alliance environment, it would be less comforting than the raw score suggests.
Overall, security is a real strategic driver for Turkey, but it is not a pure asset. Geography gives leverage and exposure simultaneously. NATO gives backing and constraints simultaneously. Defense-industrial progress gives autonomy, but not full independence. The reason the country still scores 4/5 is that in a world where force, corridors, and maritime gates matter more, Turkey has more security weight than most states outside the top tier. The reason it does not score 5/5 is that almost all of that weight must be exercised in permanent contact with conflict.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 50.0
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.94 | 55.9 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.35 | 65.5 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 3.39 | 32.3 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.80 | 19.8 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
Turkey’s food position is better than the Middle East average and worse than its raw agricultural image suggests. The country has a real farming base, climatic diversity, and enough land and population distribution to avoid looking like a pure desert importer. The caloric self-sufficiency number near 0.94 is the right starting point. Turkey can still feed itself in broad terms and is not structurally dependent on imported staple calories in the way many Gulf states are.
That said, the 3/5 score is not conservative. It is accurate. Turkey’s food system sits on three meaningful constraints. The first is water. Aqueduct water stress is weak, and that matters because Turkish agriculture depends heavily on regions already under hydrological pressure, especially in central and southeastern basins. Food resilience built on overstretched water systems is not fake, but it is conditional. It means the country looks fine in normal years and more brittle in drought years.
The second constraint is input dependence. Fertilizer import dependence is high enough that the model correctly treats it as a real vulnerability rather than a footnote. Turkey’s fertilizer position does not mean agriculture stops in a global fertilizer shock. It means margins compress, domestic prices rise, and the state becomes more dependent on trade diplomacy and subsidy management to keep planting economics intact. The scenario engine captures that well. In `fertilizer_shock`, Turkey’s food display score drops from 3 to 2 and the country falls materially in rank. That is exactly the kind of vulnerability a superficially “food-secure” country can still carry.
The third constraint is composition. Turkey produces a wide range of crops and animal products, but the politically relevant question is not just whether the country can produce calories in aggregate. It is whether it can do so at acceptable cost under currency stress, drought stress, and imported-input stress simultaneously. The answer is usually yes in the short run because Ankara has state capacity, logistics, and scale. The answer becomes less comfortable over multi-year shocks, particularly if a weaker lira and higher energy costs feed into fertilizer, transport, and irrigation costs at the same time.
Turkey’s main food advantage is that it has room to manage. It can redirect subsidies, ration foreign exchange, change crop incentives, and use its industrial base to keep packaging, processing, and domestic transport moving. A country like Turkey does not go food-fragile quickly. It degrades through inflation, regional disparities, and political discontent long before it degrades through outright physical shortage. That is strategically important. Food stress in Turkey is more likely to arrive as a cost-of-living and legitimacy problem than as a famine problem.
The main reason this factor does not score higher is that Turkey’s agricultural base is no longer enough on its own. Water and imported inputs mean the system is not sovereign in the hard sense. Turkey has food capacity, but not unconstrained food independence. In a fractured world, that still counts as a meaningful strength, because most of its regional peers are starting from a much worse position. But it is a stabilizer, not the country’s decisive edge.
The correct strategic read is that food is background resilience until it suddenly becomes political. Under normal conditions it is not the story. Under fertilizer shocks, drought, or prolonged inflation, it becomes one of the fastest channels through which external pressure reaches the Turkish street. That makes food a second-order but very real constraint on Ankara’s room for maneuver.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 60.6
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 16.84 | 67.4 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 5.14 | 40.6 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.71 | 68.2 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 97.85 | 52.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
Technology is where Turkey most clearly outruns the stereotype of a volatile emerging market. The country is not a frontier science superpower and does not control the highest-value nodes in semiconductors, advanced lithography, or foundational software. But it does have something many states in its income and geopolitical bracket lack: a broad, teachable, scalable industrial ecosystem. The 4/5 score is justified because Turkey can design, produce, maintain, and incrementally improve across a wide range of sectors that matter in a fractured world.
Manufacturing value added is the anchor. Turkey is not simply assembling imported kits for re-export. It has a large domestic supplier base in autos, machinery, appliances, construction inputs, shipbuilding, defense systems, electronics subcomponents, and industrial materials. That matters because industrial depth is what allows countries to improvise under stress. A country with factories, tooling, engineers, and suppliers can usually substitute, repair, and militarize production faster than a country that only imports finished goods.
The defense sector is the clearest proof. Turkey’s drone industry and broader push into armored vehicles, naval platforms, munitions, sensors, and aerospace subsystems are strategically important not only because they produce exports, but because they reveal what the state and private industry can do together. Defense manufacturing tends to expose the truth about industrial capacity. Turkey’s performance there suggests a country well above its reputation in engineering adaptation, systems integration, and production discipline.
The limits are equally clear. High-tech exports remain middling, patents are respectable rather than elite, and the country is still dependent on imported capital goods, advanced chips, precision tooling, and parts of the software stack. Turkey can manufacture at scale, but not from a position of full technological sovereignty. It is best described as an upper-middle industrial state, not a frontier innovation core. That distinction matters. Turkey can win in redundancy, localization, and robust mid-complexity production. It will struggle to dominate in the most advanced technological bottlenecks.
That is still a favorable place to be in a deglobalizing system. The world does not only reward the states that invent the frontier. It also rewards the states that can build around the frontier, absorb transferred production, and serve as politically safer manufacturing alternatives to more fragile regions. Turkey has a plausible role in exactly that middle layer. Its customs relationship with Europe, geographic proximity to EU markets, and domestic industrial scale make it a credible nearshoring and partial friend-shoring destination whenever European firms want production closer to home without paying full Western European cost structures.
This factor is therefore a real strategic driver, though still downstream of energy and macro stability. Turkey’s technology and manufacturing base give it export capacity, military autonomy, and bargaining power with Europe. But those gains compound best when energy costs are manageable and the financial regime is not disorderly. Turkish industry is robust, but not immune to the country’s broader policy volatility.
The right way to read the 4/5 is that Turkey has crossed the threshold from “manufacturing location” to “manufacturing power,” but not yet from “engineering middle power” to “innovation pole.” That is already enough to differentiate it sharply from most Middle Eastern peers and from many smaller European periphery states. In a fractured order, that differentiation matters a great deal.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 85.7
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.68 | 92.6 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 32.52 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 14.67 | 70.7 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
Demographics are Turkey’s clearest structural advantage. A working-age ratio near 0.68 and a median age just above 32 place the country in a very favorable zone relative to Europe, East Asia, and even some regional peers that are aging faster than their image suggests. In plain terms, Turkey still has labor depth. It has not yet entered the demographic squeeze that defines Japan, South Korea, much of Europe, and soon China. That gives Ankara time and optionality that many industrial states no longer possess.
This matters for more than headline growth. A younger labor pool supports military recruitment, manufacturing expansion, urban dynamism, consumer demand, and the ability to absorb regional migration flows without immediate demographic collapse. It also gives the state more room to try policy resets. Countries with old populations have to defend legacy systems while their workforces shrink. Turkey can still shift labor into new sectors, move up value chains, and expand industrial employment if policy is good enough.
The catch is that favorable demography is not the same thing as frictionless demography. Turkey still has to convert labor quantity into productivity. Education quality, female labor-force participation, internal regional disparities, and macro instability all affect how much value the country captures from its age structure. A young workforce is a platform, not an outcome. Turkey’s advantage is real, but it can still be squandered by poor capital allocation, inflation, or political choices that reduce confidence and brain retention.
Migration complicates the picture in both directions. Turkey has absorbed large refugee and migrant populations from neighboring conflicts, especially Syria, which adds labor supply and social strain at the same time. In a narrow economic sense that inflow can support workforce depth. In a political sense it can worsen social friction, housing pressure, and distributional conflict. The five-factor model captures the age profile benefit better than it captures the legitimacy cost. That is a real blind spot, but it does not invalidate the core demographic positive.
The reason this factor scores 5/5 is comparative, not utopian. Turkey does not have perfect human-capital outcomes. It does have a much better demographic runway than the states it often gets compared with. Relative to continental Europe, it is younger. Relative to the Gulf, it has a deeper indigenous population base. Relative to many Middle Eastern peers, it combines population scale with a more industrial economy capable of employing that population. Relative to East Asia, it is simply far earlier in the aging cycle.
Over the next decade this factor should continue to support Turkish resilience even if the absolute score eventually drifts lower. The real question is whether Ankara uses the window to deepen productivity, education, and capital formation before aging becomes more binding. If it does, demographics remain a durable advantage. If it does not, Turkey risks becoming a country that had a dividend without fully cashing it.
For the current strategic horizon, demographics are not background noise. They are one of the country’s few unambiguous strengths. They help explain why Turkey can sustain military activism, preserve industrial relevance, and remain a meaningful consumer market at the same time. Among the five factors, this is one of the strongest arguments that Turkey still has upward room if policy execution improves.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.0 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.94) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 26.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.28) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 60.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (16.8) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.5 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) |
The Five Factor framework explains Turkey better than it explains many countries because the main strategic tensions are structural rather than decorative. Energy really is the binding weakness. Demographics really are a durable advantage. Technology really does capture a meaningful layer of Turkish state capacity that standard macro summaries often understate. Security really is elevated by geography, the alliance umbrella, and domestic defense production. This is a case where the score pattern tells a coherent story without much forcing.
The best part of the framework is that it identifies Turkey as stronger than a narrow financial-market lens suggests. If one looks only at inflation history, currency instability, and policy volatility, Turkey can look like a fragile emerging market with recurring self-inflicted problems. The five-factor baseline shows something more durable underneath that noise: a large working-age population, a substantial factory base, real military weight, and a food position that is manageable rather than desperate. That is the correct structural picture.
The framework also correctly prevents overrating Turkey. It would be easy to tell a dramatic geopolitical story in which Turkey’s location alone makes it a future great power. The low energy score stops that. So do the middling food constraints and the only-partial quality of the security score. Turkey’s strategic relevance is high, but its ability to turn that relevance into unconstrained autonomy is still limited. The model catches that ceiling well.
Where the framework is weakest is on institutional quality and macro regime risk. Turkey’s medium-term trajectory depends heavily on monetary credibility, legal predictability, elite cohesion, and the willingness of domestic and foreign capital to finance long-run industrial upgrading. Those variables matter enormously for returns and for state capacity, but they are only indirectly visible in the five factors. A country can score well on demographics and technology while still underperforming badly if policy credibility is poor enough.
The second blind spot is social and political cohesion. The framework sees age structure and food affordability, but it does not directly see polarization, refugee politics, center-periphery tensions, or the political consequences of prolonged inflation. For Turkey that matters. The country’s structural strengths do not automatically translate into strategic calm. Domestic legitimacy and coalition management are part of the Turkish operating environment, and they often mediate whether structural advantages are usable.
The third blind spot is disaster and infrastructure vulnerability. Turkey’s earthquake exposure, urban concentration, and infrastructure stress are not trivial. In a major fracture scenario they could interact with food, energy, and fiscal capacity in ways the baseline does not model. This is not a criticism of the framework so much as a reminder that Five Factor Analysis captures strategic capacity better than it captures sudden physical shocks.
The investment takeaway that survives the framework is straightforward: Turkey is usually more important than it is stable. That is why it deserves close attention. The country combines enough structural strengths to matter in most fragmentation scenarios with enough policy and regional risk to make clean bull or bear narratives unreliable. The framework gets the balance mostly right. Turkey is not a broken state with incidental advantages. It is a capable state with a few very specific chokepoints of its own.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.0 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.94) |
| Energy | 2/5 | 26.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.28) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 60.6 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (16.8) |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.7 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.68) |
| Security | 4/5 | 64.5 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) |
The investable Turkey thesis is not “Turkey becomes fully Western again” or “Turkey breaks cleanly east.” Both are too neat. The better thesis is that Turkey continues to monetize strategic ambiguity while building out sectors that benefit from regional fragmentation, nearshoring, defense demand, and supply-chain relocation. In that world, the winners are businesses tied to domestic manufacturing, defense production, logistics, port and corridor infrastructure, selected industrial exporters, and any operator able to earn hard currency while paying a meaningful share of costs in local terms.
Industrial exporters are the clearest beneficiaries. Turkey’s technology score is strong enough to support the idea that it can keep taking share in autos, appliances, machinery, components, and defense-adjacent manufacturing, especially when European firms want capacity near the EU but outside the most expensive labor markets. The country is unlikely to dominate the highest-end technology stack, but it does not need to. A fractured world rewards reliable mid-complexity production and politically resilient supplier networks. Turkey can plausibly offer both.
Defense is the second major theme. Turkish security policy and Turkish industrial strategy increasingly reinforce each other. Domestic drone production, munitions, armored vehicles, naval platforms, and defense electronics are not only export categories. They are proof that the state is willing to support local champions in sectors with strategic value. As long as regional insecurity remains high, that cluster should retain political backing and export relevance.
The domestic-demand story is more mixed. Demographics are good enough to sustain a large consumer market, but macro volatility limits how cleanly that converts into compounding. Consumer, housing, banking, and rate-sensitive domestic sectors can all look attractive in isolated episodes and still disappoint over a full cycle if inflation, regulation, or FX weakness reassert themselves. A Turkey allocation that depends mainly on domestic macro normalization is a lower-quality thesis than one that depends on export capacity, industrial substitution, or strategic infrastructure.
The biggest losers in a stress case are sectors that are energy-intensive, import-dependent, and domestically regulated at the same time. Those businesses get hit three ways: by input costs, by currency pressure, and by policy interference. The same logic applies to food-adjacent sectors if fertilizer or irrigation costs spike. The scenario engine is directionally useful here. `fertilizer_shock` knocks Turkey down meaningfully because food resilience is input-sensitive. `suez_disruption` is even more damaging because it reinforces the country’s energy weakness. The lesson is that Turkey is not a generic “fragmentation winner.” It wins selectively.
The most robust long Turkey posture is therefore barbelled. On one side sit hard strategic assets: defense, ports, corridors, industrial exporters, and selected manufacturing ecosystems tied to Europe or the wider region. On the other side sit tactical macro trades that depend on currency stabilization, disinflation, or policy orthodoxy. The first side has structural support from the five-factor profile. The second side can work, but is more vulnerable to policy reversals and politics.
What must be true for the favorable thesis to hold is also clear. Turkey must keep its energy dependence manageable through supplier diversification and corridor leverage. It must avoid a full rupture with NATO or Europe even while preserving bargaining autonomy. It must keep enough macro credibility to fund industrial expansion and enough internal cohesion to prevent social stress from overwhelming its demographic advantage. If those conditions fail, Turkey does not stop mattering, but it becomes much harder to own.
The bottom line is that Turkey is investable as a strategic industrial middle power, not as a clean macro reform story and not as a commodity sovereign. The country’s strengths are real. So are its constraints. The best opportunities sit where Turkish geography, manufacturing, and security demand intersect. The main risk is assuming that structural importance automatically produces stable returns. In Turkey, it usually produces volatility first and value second.
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# United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is not a self-sufficient continental power. It is a high-capability island state whose strategic value comes from alliance integration, nuclear status, intelligence reach, maritime geography, and institutional depth rather than from overwhelming domestic buffers in food, energy, or industrial production. In a fractured world, Britain remains more resilient than most middle powers, but less autonomous than its security score alone might suggest.
The current baseline captures that asymmetry clearly. Security is the decisive strength. Demographics remain supportive relative to most of Europe. Food, energy, and technology all sit in the middle tier, which is exactly where a post-imperial, service-heavy, trade-dependent economy should screen: viable, adaptive, and wealthy, but not insulated from external shock.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** Non-EU Europe | **Composite:** 3.52 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Generated From:** v2026
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 49.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 47.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.56) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.0) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.3 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.63) |
| Security | 5/5 | 87.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/gb/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Country Thesis
- Britain is best understood as an allied maritime platform with security depth, financial depth, and institutional reach, not as a fully self-contained civilizational pole.
- The country’s real strategic advantage is that its strongest factor, security, helps compensate for middling food, energy, and technology.
- The biggest vulnerability is not state collapse or military exposure. It is a slower erosion of industrial depth, energy margin, and import resilience beneath an outwardly strong geopolitical posture.
- Within [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]], the United Kingdom is the bloc’s clearest security anchor even though it is not the bloc’s strongest performer on food or energy.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 49.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 47.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.56) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.0) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.3 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.63) |
| Security | 5/5 | 87.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Core Read
The United Kingdom remains one of the few European states that still combines nuclear weapons, blue-water military reach, serious intelligence capability, global finance, and political relevance inside the US-led alliance system. That combination explains the near-top security score and makes Britain strategically more important than its middling food, energy, or manufacturing fundamentals might suggest.
But the same score pattern also shows the limit of the British model. The country is no longer an economy with overwhelming domestic margin. Food resilience is workable rather than abundant. Energy resilience is no longer carried by a dominant North Sea surplus. Technology capability remains real in design, services, aerospace, defense, and research, yet the domestic production base is too thin to justify a higher autonomy score. Britain is resilient because it is rich, networked, and allied, not because it is self-sufficient.
That makes the United Kingdom a strong coalition state in a fractured order, but not a sovereign island fortress. If the system remains alliance-centric, Britain outperforms its raw economic substrate. If the system shifts toward hard autarky and sustained shipping or industrial fragmentation, the country’s middle-tier food, energy, and technology profile becomes more binding.
## What Matters Most
- Security is the driver. Britain’s nuclear status, NATO role, intelligence network, and maritime position give it strategic weight that exceeds its size.
- Demographics are a support factor rather than a growth engine. Britain is ageing, but still looks better than much of continental Europe because migration and labor-market flexibility provide partial relief.
- Energy is the clearest real-economy warning light. The country still has domestic capacity and strong offshore potential, but the margin is materially weaker than it was a decade ago.
- Technology is not weak, but it is narrower than the rhetoric of “Global Britain” suggests. The country is strongest in high-value nodes, not in whole-system industrial depth.
## Comparative Position
Relative to [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]], Britain is the bloc’s security anchor and one of its most important strategic actors. Relative to the United States, however, it is plainly more dependent on alliance scaffolding, imported energy, and external industrial ecosystems. Relative to core EU states, Britain trades some market scale and manufacturing depth for a stronger security position and more flexible geopolitical posture.
## Bottom Line
Britain is best described as a high-grade allied power with declining physical margin but durable strategic relevance. It remains investable and geopolitically important, but the real thesis is not British self-sufficiency. It is Britain’s ability to convert alliance centrality, institutional quality, and maritime-security leverage into resilience that is good enough to offset a thinner domestic base.
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/gb/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 47.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 0.56 | 44.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.44 | 56.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Assessment
Britain’s energy story is no longer one of effortless surplus. The country still benefits from North Sea legacy production, mature market institutions, strong LNG access, interconnection with nearby systems, and one of the largest offshore wind fleets in the developed world. But the headline fact in the baseline is clear: domestic production does not cover domestic use by a large margin.
That matters because Britain’s model assumes reliable access to imported gas, oil, refined products, and electricity balancing capacity. In normal times this is manageable. In a fracture scenario, import dependence and affordability pressure become meaningful constraints.
The positive case is real: Britain has the institutions to rebuild domestic energy resilience via offshore wind, nuclear replacement, and transmission upgrades. The negative case is equally real: much of the legacy advantage has been depleted without sufficient replacement in a low-emissions transition, making energy a binding medium-term factor.
## Strategic Read
- Britain is not energy-fragile like pure import states, but it is no longer an energy-comfortable state.
- Island geography protects it from land-based disruption, but makes maritime access, ports, and storage even more central.
- The decisive question is not just availability in calm periods, but stability through multi-year energy-price and routing stress.
- In [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]], Britain is not the energy-core state in the way Norway is.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- The score may understate adaptation capacity from LNG flexibility, power markets, and state coordination.
- It may overstate security if one assumes continuous market openness; price and affordability shocks can become politically binding.
- Energy is not the defining strength, but a likely binding constraint in prolonged disruption.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 87.0
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | confirmed arsenal | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 41.9 | 78.1 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 2.28 | 43.7 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1.00 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Assessment
Security is Britain’s principal strategic lever. The country combines a nuclear arsenal, NATO integration, deep intelligence ties, and maritime reach that make it one of the highest-relevance security states in Europe.
That strength is real, but it is inseparable from alliance quality. The UK is not a continent-scale military actor and not fully autonomous in all theaters; it is a high-grade allied security state. If alliance cohesion holds, that is a major source of resilience. If it does not, security remains strong but less compensatory for material weakness elsewhere.
Island geography reduces certain direct vulnerabilities, yet increases dependence on maritime access, naval resilience, and industrial follow-through.
## Strategic Read
- Within [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]], Britain is the security anchor.
- Hard-power strength here is primarily coalition security, not autarkic depth.
- The main weakness is whether budget and industrial replenishment keep pace with strategic ambition.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- Quantitative metrics undervalue intelligence integration, naval command reputation, and alliance trust.
- They also do not fully capture reliance on U.S. high-end enablers.
- Security remains the clearest counterweight to other factor deficits.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 49.3
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.67 | 38.3 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.24 | 76.4 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 1.30 | 74.0 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.88 | 11.5 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Assessment
Britain can feed itself politically longer than it can feed itself autarkically. Its dependence is manageable in normal conditions but leaves the country exposed to broad energy and logistics disruptions.
This is not a famine story. Britain is a wealthy importer with strong logistics and deep liquidity. But the system is optimized for open trade, not deep redundancy, so simultaneous shocks to fuel and fertilizer inputs would quickly turn food resilience into a macroeconomic stress problem.
## Strategic Read
- The profile is that of a rich trading state that is stable while the trade system works.
- Fertilizer dependence is the hidden weak link, especially where energy price volatility is high.
- Food security is rarely a first-order failure mode; it becomes significant when multiple systems fail at once.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- The score may understate institutional resilience and finance, which help absorb temporary disruptions.
- It may understate concentration risk across supply routes and external inputs.
- In the system-wide view, food is a downstream pressure amplifier rather than the core driver.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 3/5
- Continuous score: 54.4
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 8.0 | 31.9 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2024 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 29.7 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.25 | 89.8 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 173 | 62.4 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Assessment
Britain’s technology profile combines high-value capability with constrained industrial scale. The UK remains strong in aerospace, defense, fintech, life sciences, and advanced services, but manufacturing depth is not broad enough to support a higher autonomy score.
The country is a node of design and intelligence more than a full-stack industrial base. That makes it resilient in a connected world and vulnerable under de-globalized material fragmentation.
## Strategic Read
- Strength lies in quality, standards, and system integration.
- Vulnerability comes from component, equipment, and energy dependence on external supply chains.
- Britain can be a decisive partner in allied ecosystems, but not a standalone industrial pole.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- The score may understate software, legal, and financial infrastructure strengths.
- It may overstate self-sufficiency if interpreted as broad manufacturing autonomy.
- Technology is strategic, but supportive rather than compensatory without security-aligned demand.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 69.3
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.63 | 73.5 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 39.8 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 30.3 | 46.2 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Assessment
Britain’s demographic profile is a stabilizer rather than a vulnerability driver. Ageing is real, but migration and labor-market flexibility help preserve working-age capacity.
The score suggests Britain has enough demographic depth to keep key services and strategic industries operating, as long as policies avoid hardening labor shortages and housing bottlenecks too quickly.
## Strategic Read
- Demographics are better than many older advanced peers with weaker replenishment mechanisms.
- The key risk is political fragmentation over migration and productivity, not a near-term working-age collapse.
- The score strengthens the overall profile by improving policy and tax capacity in transition environments.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- The metric set does not fully capture talent quality, education productivity, or skills matching.
- The demographic profile supports resilience but does not substitute for energy, food, or manufacturing resilience.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 49.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 47.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.56) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.0) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.3 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.63) |
| Security | 5/5 | 87.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Where The Framework Works
The model captures Britain as a high-security, medium-material resilience state where hard-power relevance outweighs domestic sufficiency. That asymmetry is central to understanding the UK’s real positioning.
## Where The Framework Strains
It underweights alliance trust, financial depth, and the service- and law-driven institutions that let Britain operate well despite thinner physical buffers.
The model also compresses technology into production depth more than network centrality; this can understate UK value in advanced systems.
## Biggest Blind Spot
The largest omission is how institutional quality and alliance integration can convert non-autarkic structure into practical resilience in multi-country shocks.
## Durable Takeaway
Britain should be read as a strong coalition power with limited autarkic power. That is not a model failure; it is the core strategic conclusion.
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 49.3 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) |
| Energy | 3/5 | 47.0 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.56) |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.4 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.0) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.3 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.63) |
| Security | 5/5 | 87.0 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Core Investment Read
Britain is attractive where security relevance, institutional depth, and selective high-value capability dominate, and less attractive for broad, low-margin energy-intensive industrial expansion.
## Likely Beneficiaries
- Defense, aerospace, maritime security, and dual-use technologies.
- Grid modernization, offshore wind, storage, and transmission.
- Ports and logistics tied to Atlantic trade and maritime security.
- High-value research and design sectors.
## Likely Structural Laggards
- Energy-intensive, commodity-heavy manufacturing.
- Models that assume rapid restoration of broad domestic industrial depth.
- Supply-chain-fragile consumer sectors in prolonged energy-friction scenarios.
## What Would Improve The Thesis
- Better long-duration, competitive power generation capacity.
- Deeper defense-industrial replenishment.
- Stronger talent pathways and production conversion for strategic sectors.
## What Would Break It
- Persistent energy-cost disadvantage versus peers.
- Erosion of alliance coherence.
- Major domestic institutional or fiscal instability.
## Bottom Line
Britain’s optimal thesis is allied centrality plus selective high-value exposure, with explicit recognition of its middle-tier physical resilience.
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# United States
This generated Tier 1 package preserves the quantitative baseline for United States while leaving the deep analysis open for manual completion. Treat it as the working scaffold, not the finished country study.
## Quantitative Snapshot
**Region:** North America | **Composite:** 4.37 / 5.0 | **Data:** 2026 | **Generated:** 2026-03-09
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.95) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 91.8 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.09) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.1 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.7) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.65) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Reading Path
1. [[country-matrix/countries/us/executive-summary|Executive Summary]]
2. [[country-matrix/countries/us/energy|Energy]]
3. [[country-matrix/countries/us/security|Security]]
4. [[country-matrix/countries/us/food|Food]]
5. [[country-matrix/countries/us/technology|Technology]]
6. [[country-matrix/countries/us/demographics|Demographics]]
7. [[country-matrix/countries/us/framework-assessment|Framework Assessment]]
8. [[country-matrix/countries/us/investment-implications|Investment Implications]]
## Manual Completion Checklist
- Write the executive thesis in plain language before expanding the factor chapters.
- Upgrade or dispute any scored baseline that obviously conflicts with strategic reality.
- Add Tier 1 qualitative overlays: alliance reliability, governance quality, social cohesion, swing-state leverage, and process-monopoly exposure.
- Flip `generated: true` to `generated: false` once the country package is manually completed.
## Source Baseline
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
- Energy: World Bank WDI
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
- Security: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
---
## Baseline Scorecard
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.95) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 91.8 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.09) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.1 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.7) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.65) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Summarize where the Five Factor framework fits, strains, and fails for this country. Anchor the prose in the current score pattern and in the country’s strategic role.
## Required Calls
- Where does this country sit inside a fractured world order?
- Which factor is the real strategic driver, and which factors are mostly downstream?
- What makes this country different from its bloc peers?
*Next: [[country-matrix/countries/us/energy|Energy]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 91.8
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Energy production/consumption ratio | DOMINANT | 1.09 | 89.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
| Fuel import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full energy section. Cover domestic production, import dependencies, refining/logistics exposure, chokepoints, and how energy shapes every other factor.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 5/5
- Continuous score: 88.9
- Confidence: PARTIAL
- Data year: 2026
- Sources: Fragile States Index, Curated dataset, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Nuclear weapons status | DOMINANT | confirmed arsenal | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
| Fragile States Index | PRIMARY | 45.3 | 74.7 | Fragile States Index | 2023 |
| Military expenditure (% GDP) | PRIMARY | 3.42 | 58.9 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Alliance membership | PRIMARY | 1.00 | 100.0 | Curated dataset | 2026 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full security section. Cover nuclear status, alliance quality, force posture, geography, chokepoints, and which vulnerabilities are hard circuit-breakers.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/us/index|United States]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 65.4
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Caloric self-sufficiency | DOMINANT | 0.95 | 56.6 | FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) | 2023 |
| Cereal import dependency | PRIMARY | 0.00 | 100.0 | FAO Food Balance Sheets | 2023 |
| Water stress | PRIMARY | 2.60 | 47.9 | WRI Aqueduct | 2023 |
| Fertilizer import dependency | SUPPLEMENTARY | 0.16 | 84.2 | FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full food section. Cover caloric base, cereal dependence, fertilizer exposure, water constraints, and how quickly food stress would become politically binding.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 61.1
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2024
- Sources: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Manufacturing value added (% GDP) | DOMINANT | 10.7 | 42.8 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
| High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) | PRIMARY | 24.3 | 100.0 | World Bank WDI | 2024 |
| Economic complexity index | SUPPLEMENTARY | 1.11 | 84.3 | Harvard Growth Lab | 2024 |
| Patent applications per million | SUPPLEMENTARY | 790 | 69.2 | Our World in Data / World Bank | 2021 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full technology section. Cover manufacturing depth, export mix, critical bottlenecks, R&D base, and which external dependencies matter in a fracture scenario.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/us/index|United States]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
- Display score: 4/5
- Continuous score: 74.2
- Confidence: VERIFIED
- Data year: 2023
- Sources: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects
| Metric | Tier | Raw | Normalized | Source | Year |
|--------|------|-----|------------|--------|------|
| Working-age ratio | DOMINANT | 0.65 | 79.9 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Median age | PRIMARY | 38.0 | 80.0 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
| Old-age dependency ratio (2035) | PRIMARY | 26.8 | 50.9 | Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects | 2023 |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Write the full demographics section. Cover age structure, labor-force depth, migration, human-capital constraints, and how much this factor matters on the relevant time horizon.
## Qualitative Overlay Notes
- TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
- TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
- TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/us/index|United States]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.95) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 91.8 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.09) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.1 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.7) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.65) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Evaluate where the Five Factor framework genuinely explains this country, where it overfits, and which variables still sit outside the model.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/us/index|United States]]*
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## Quantitative Baseline
| Factor | Display | Continuous | Confidence | Key Metric |
|--------|---------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.4 | VERIFIED | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.95) |
| Energy | 5/5 | 91.8 | PARTIAL | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.09) |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.1 | VERIFIED | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.7) |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.2 | VERIFIED | Working-age ratio (0.65) |
| Security | 5/5 | 88.9 | PARTIAL | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) |
## Manual Draft Prompt
Translate the country analysis into investable implications, structural beneficiaries, likely losers, and what must be true for the thesis to break.
## Required Calls
- TODO: explain how the five scored factors do and do not capture this country.
- TODO: note the biggest blind spot in the purely quantitative baseline.
- TODO: identify the section-specific investment or strategic takeaway that should survive the full manual rewrite.
*Back to [[country-matrix/countries/us/index|United States]]*
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# Afghanistan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/pakistan_plus|Pakistan +]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
> [!summary] Radar Placeholder
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 36.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 23.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.54) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 47.9 | Working-age ratio (0.54) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Afghanistan sits in Pakistan +, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is technology (2.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/pakistan_plus|Pakistan + Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Afghanistan is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Albania
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 3.03 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
> [!summary] Radar Placeholder
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 36.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 63.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.77) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 25.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (6.51) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 78.8 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 69.0 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Albania sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Albania is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Andorra
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 29.1 | Water stress (3.54) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 35.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.40) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.1 | Working-age ratio (0.72) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Andorra sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Andorra is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# Angola
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.46 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 52.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.81) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (4.54) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 39.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.63) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 42.5 | Working-age ratio (0.53) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Angola sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Angola is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Antigua and Barbuda
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 24.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.13) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 11.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (2.61) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.6 | Working-age ratio (0.71) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Antigua and Barbuda is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Antigua and Barbuda is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Armenia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU]] | **Composite:** 2.83 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 28.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.54) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 22.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.23) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 53.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.2) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 81.5 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 3/5 | 49.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Armenia sits in Russia / EAEU, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.2/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is technology (3.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Armenia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Austria
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 57.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.82) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 32.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.36) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 70.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (15.1) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 72.0 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 29.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Austria sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Austria is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Azerbaijan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 3.13 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 52.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.70) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (3.56) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 24.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.24) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 90.5 | Working-age ratio (0.70) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 31.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Azerbaijan is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Azerbaijan is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Bahamas, The
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 29.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.30) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 3.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.5 | Working-age ratio (0.70) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 26.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Bahamas, The is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Bahamas, The is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Barbados
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 36.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 3/5 | 43.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.02) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 78.3 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 26.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Barbados is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Barbados is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Belarus
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU]] | **Composite:** 3.44 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 91.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.41) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 22.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.23) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 68.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.3) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 77.1 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 3/5 | 41.8 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Belarus sits in Russia / EAEU, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.2/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is technology (3.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Belarus is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Belgium
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.70 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 48.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.99) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 10.8 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.11) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 59.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.4) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 68.3 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 70.7 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Belgium sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Belgium is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Belize
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 87.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (2.49) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 19.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (6.59) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.8 | Working-age ratio (0.68) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Belize sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Belize is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Benin
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** 3.06 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 99.9 | Water stress (0.00) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 49.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.59) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 52.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.2) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 50.4 | Working-age ratio (0.55) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Benin sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Benin is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Bhutan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 40.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.42) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 21.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.85) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 92.5 | Working-age ratio (0.72) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Bhutan sits in India Sphere, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.7/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Bhutan is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Bolivia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 3.59 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 97.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.57) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.67) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 45.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.1) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 78.6 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.8 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Bolivia sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Bolivia is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Bosnia and Herzegovina
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 3.10 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 46.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 61.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.75) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 48.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.7) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 68.9 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Bosnia and Herzegovina sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Bosnia and Herzegovina is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Botswana
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.00 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 1/5 | 11.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.35) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 62.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.76) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 19.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.55) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.8 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 29.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Botswana sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Botswana is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is food at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Brunei Darussalam
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.47 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 100.0 | Water stress (0.00) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.73) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 32.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.7) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 92.4 | Working-age ratio (0.72) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 31.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Brunei Darussalam sits in Southeast Asia, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Brunei Darussalam is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Bulgaria
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.95 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 94.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.77) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 49.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.59) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 73.7 | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (13.4) | ESTIMATED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 65.5 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 70.0 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Bulgaria sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Bulgaria is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Burkina Faso
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 56.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.94) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 29.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.50) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 49.6 | Working-age ratio (0.55) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 27.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Burkina Faso sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Burkina Faso is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Burundi
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 100.0 | Water stress (0.00) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 33.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 40.6 | Working-age ratio (0.52) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Burundi sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Burundi is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Cabo Verde
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 27.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.34) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 17.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.14) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.0 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Cabo Verde sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Cabo Verde is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Cambodia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.03 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 76.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.28) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 35.8 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.41) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 73.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (27.8) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 77.7 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Cambodia sits in Southeast Asia, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Cambodia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2021)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Cameroon
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 2.67 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 57.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.84) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.29) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 41.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 51.5 | Working-age ratio (0.55) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 17.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Cameroon is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Cameroon is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Central African Republic
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 99.8 | Water stress (0.01) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 4/5 | 67.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (18.0) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 2/5 | 32.6 | Working-age ratio (0.49) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Central African Republic is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Central African Republic is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Chad
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 2.89 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 82.9 | Water stress (0.85) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.78) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 24.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.15) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 2/5 | 37.9 | Working-age ratio (0.51) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Chad is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Chad is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Comoros
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 40.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 27.6 | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (3.14) | ESTIMATED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 60.7 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Comoros sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Comoros is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy, Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Congo, Dem. Rep.
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 2.40 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.95) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 83.4 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.98) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 20.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.22) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 2/5 | 36.8 | Working-age ratio (0.51) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 16.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Congo, Dem. Rep. is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Congo, Dem. Rep. is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Congo, Rep.
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 2.46 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 41.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.71) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (4.47) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 38.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 54.1 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.8 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Congo, Rep. is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Congo, Rep. is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Costa Rica
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.99 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 71.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (3.89) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 34.7 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.40) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 57.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.0) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 86.7 | Working-age ratio (0.69) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 27.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Costa Rica sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Costa Rica is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Cote d'Ivoire
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.70 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 67.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.12) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 70.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.86) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 43.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 53.9 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Cote d'Ivoire sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Cote d'Ivoire is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Croatia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.29 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 63.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.80) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 37.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.43) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 48.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.2 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 69.5 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Croatia sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Croatia is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Cuba
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.61 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 46.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.88) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 32.9 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.37) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 39.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.7) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 81.6 | Working-age ratio (0.68) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 28.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Cuba sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Cuba is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Cyprus
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.09 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 20.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 0.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.00) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 35.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.46) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 87.0 | Working-age ratio (0.70) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 26.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Cyprus sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Cyprus is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Czechia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.95 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 74.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.16) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 48.5 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.58) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 5/5 | 81.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (19.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 67.7 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 71.4 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Czechia sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Czechia is relatively strongest in technology, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Denmark
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.95 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 84.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.40) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 47.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.56) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 75.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (17.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 68.2 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 75.9 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Denmark sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Denmark is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Djibouti
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 1/5 | 11.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.19) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 21.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.28) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 82.3 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 24.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Djibouti sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Djibouti is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is food at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Dominica
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 100.0 | Water stress (-9999) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 20.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.73) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 86.6 | Working-age ratio (0.69) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Dominica is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Dominica is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Dominican Republic
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.46 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 44.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.82) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 5.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.06) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 45.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 80.6 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Dominican Republic sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Dominican Republic is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Ecuador
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 3.59 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 60.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.03) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.69) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 47.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 83.7 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Ecuador sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Ecuador is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# El Salvador
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.83 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 53.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.03) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 35.4 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.40) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 43.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.0) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 83.5 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
El Salvador sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
El Salvador is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Equatorial Guinea
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 3.47 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 100.0 | Water stress (0.00) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (5.23) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 5/5 | 85.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (24.8) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.7 | Working-age ratio (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Equatorial Guinea is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Equatorial Guinea is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Eritrea
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.35 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 21.1 | Water stress (3.94) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 53.9 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.65) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 22.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.49) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 56.1 | Working-age ratio (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 30.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Eritrea sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Eritrea is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is food at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2004)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2009)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Estonia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.95 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 74.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.19) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 81.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.96) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 55.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.8) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 66.5 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 75.0 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Estonia sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Estonia is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Eswatini
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 3.48 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 75.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (2.24) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 64.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.79) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 73.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (29.1) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 72.2 | Working-age ratio (0.62) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Eswatini sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Eswatini is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Fiji
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 45.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.86) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 37.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.3) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 83.2 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Fiji sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Fiji is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Finland
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.78 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.78) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 57.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.70) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 61.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.2) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 60.5 | Working-age ratio (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 75.7 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Finland sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Finland is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Gabon
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 3.25 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 46.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.82) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.88) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 57.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (19.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 64.8 | Working-age ratio (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 24.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Gabon is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Gabon is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Gambia, The
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 28.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.37) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 11.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.45) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 54.1 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Gambia, The sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Gambia, The is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Georgia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 2.49 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 47.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 20.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.20) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 35.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.44) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 71.7 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 24.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Georgia sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Georgia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Ghana
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** 3.17 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 68.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.09) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.22) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 30.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.84) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 66.8 | Working-age ratio (0.60) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Ghana sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Ghana is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Greece
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.70 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.88) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 10.8 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.11) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 47.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.07) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 61.9 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 71.7 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Greece sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Greece is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Grenada
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 40.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.50) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 22.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.80) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.0 | Working-age ratio (0.68) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Grenada is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Grenada is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Guatemala
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.70 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 74.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.44) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 51.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.62) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 46.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.6 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Guatemala sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Guatemala is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Guinea
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 55.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.81) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 37.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.7) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 51.0 | Working-age ratio (0.55) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Guinea sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Guinea is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Guinea-Bissau
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 59.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.84) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 36.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.70) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 58.4 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Guinea-Bissau sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Guinea-Bissau is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Guyana
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 63.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.07) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 25.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.70) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 78.0 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Guyana sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Guyana is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Haiti
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 31.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.53) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 4/5 | 80.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (26.2) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 77.1 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 13.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Haiti is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Haiti is relatively strongest in technology, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Honduras
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 66.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.20) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 34.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.39) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 47.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 79.5 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Honduras sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Honduras is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Hungary
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.64 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 93.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.61) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 33.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.37) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 70.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (15.8) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.4 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 70.5 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Hungary sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Hungary is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Iceland
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 3.95 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 73.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (2.24) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 64.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.80) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 50.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.58) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 79.0 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 5/5 | 82.0 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Iceland sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Iceland is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2009)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Ireland
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.76 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 66.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.16) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 14.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.14) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 5/5 | 91.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (29.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.1 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 27.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Ireland sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Ireland is relatively strongest in technology, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Jamaica
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.09 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 35.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 0.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.00) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 29.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.73) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 91.7 | Working-age ratio (0.73) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Jamaica sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Jamaica is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Kazakhstan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU]] | **Composite:** 3.44 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.12) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.19) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 59.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.4) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 71.8 | Working-age ratio (0.62) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 38.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Kazakhstan sits in Russia / EAEU, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.2/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is technology (3.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Kazakhstan is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Kiribati
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 60.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.21) | PARTIAL |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 19.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.72) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.7 | Working-age ratio (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Kiribati sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Kiribati is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived) (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Korea, Dem. People's Rep.
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.80) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 80.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.95) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | N/A/5 | N/A | Patent applications per million (265) | NO DATA |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 86.6 | Working-age ratio (0.69) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 66.6 | Nuclear weapons status (confirmed arsenal) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Korea, Dem. People's Rep. is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Korea, Dem. People's Rep. is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is food at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2020)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Kyrgyz Republic
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU]] | **Composite:** 3.18 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 41.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.73) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 54.7 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.66) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 50.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 73.1 | Working-age ratio (0.62) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 3/5 | 42.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Kyrgyz Republic sits in Russia / EAEU, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.2/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is technology (3.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/russia_eaeu|Russia / EAEU Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Kyrgyz Republic is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is food at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Lao PDR
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.02 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 86.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.46) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.49) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 35.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.05) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 80.4 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Lao PDR sits in Southeast Asia, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Lao PDR is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Latvia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.57 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 69.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.05) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 54.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.66) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 53.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.94) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 65.0 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 73.9 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Latvia sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Latvia is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Lebanon
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East]] | **Composite:** 1.52 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 1/5 | 18.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.52) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 3.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.03) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 17.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.43) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.1 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Lebanon sits in Middle East, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is food (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Lebanon is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Lesotho
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 24.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.48) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 36.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.6 | Working-age ratio (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Lesotho sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Lesotho is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Liberia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 40.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 9.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (2.28) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 55.2 | Working-age ratio (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 17.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Liberia sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Liberia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Libya
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East]] | **Composite:** 2.51 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 25.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.33) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (3.50) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 10.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (2.81) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 86.3 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 27.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Libya sits in Middle East, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is food (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Libya is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Liechtenstein
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 83.7 | Water stress (0.81) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 5/5 | 100.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (34.2) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 70.9 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Liechtenstein sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Liechtenstein is relatively strongest in technology, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# Lithuania
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.64 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 89.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.41) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 26.4 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.29) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 62.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.0) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 72.2 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 74.3 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Lithuania sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Lithuania is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Luxembourg
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.40 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 36.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.60) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 0.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.00) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 26.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.96) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 85.3 | Working-age ratio (0.69) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 71.5 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Luxembourg sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Luxembourg is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Madagascar
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.49 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 67.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.86) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 71.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.86) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 34.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 56.9 | Working-age ratio (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Madagascar sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Madagascar is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2017)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Malawi
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 70.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.99) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 32.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.0) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 52.9 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Malawi sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Malawi is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Maldives
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 1/5 | 18.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.51) | PARTIAL |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 4.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.58) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 93.7 | Working-age ratio (0.76) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Maldives sits in India Sphere, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.7/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Maldives is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Mali
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 86.5 | Water stress (0.68) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 29.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.62) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 2/5 | 37.6 | Working-age ratio (0.51) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Mali sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Mali is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Malta
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.00 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 23.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.16) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 0.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.00) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 39.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.75) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 78.2 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 26.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Malta sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Malta is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Marshall Islands
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 44.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.06) | PARTIAL |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 12.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.12) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 67.8 | Working-age ratio (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Marshall Islands sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Marshall Islands is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Mauritania
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 33.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 28.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.01) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 46.0 | Working-age ratio (0.54) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Mauritania sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Mauritania is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Mauritius
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.12) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 36.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.1) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.8 | Working-age ratio (0.72) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 24.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Mauritius sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Mauritius is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 43.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.79) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 2.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (0.51) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 71.7 | Working-age ratio (0.62) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Moldova
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 2.40 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 86.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (2.50) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 18.8 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.19) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 32.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (7.72) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 73.4 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.8 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Moldova sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Moldova is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Monaco
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | N/A/5 | N/A | Patent applications per million (130) | NO DATA |
| Demographics | 1/5 | 18.8 | Working-age ratio (0.51) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Monaco sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Monaco is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 1/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy, Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: no source data available
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2021)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# Mongolia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia]] | **Composite:** 2.99 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 42.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.83) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (3.26) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 38.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.57) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.9 | Working-age ratio (0.62) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Mongolia sits in Central Asia, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.3/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Mongolia is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Montenegro
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 3.03 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 22.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.23) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 61.7 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.76) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 28.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.33) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 72.2 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 68.1 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Montenegro sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Montenegro is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is food at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Mozambique
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.83 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 53.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.83) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.06) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 24.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (6.44) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 42.0 | Working-age ratio (0.52) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Mozambique sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Mozambique is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Myanmar
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.81 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 67.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.11) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 99.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.19) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 72.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (22.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 88.0 | Working-age ratio (0.68) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 29.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Myanmar sits in Southeast Asia, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southeast_asia|Southeast Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Myanmar is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Namibia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.30 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 26.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 34.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.40) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 30.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 64.3 | Working-age ratio (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 28.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Namibia sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Namibia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is food at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Nauru
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 34.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.45) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 64.5 | Working-age ratio (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Nauru sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Nauru is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy, Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: no source data available
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Nepal
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere]] | **Composite:** 2.05 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 51.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.85) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 59.4 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.73) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 16.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.37) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 79.6 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Nepal sits in India Sphere, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.7/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Nepal is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Nicaragua
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.61 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 70.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.21) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 45.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.54) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 36.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.5) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 81.7 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Nicaragua sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Nicaragua is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Niger
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.49 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 49.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.90) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 79.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.95) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 34.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (6.99) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 2/5 | 35.5 | Working-age ratio (0.50) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Niger sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Niger is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# North Macedonia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 35.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.53) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 32.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.36) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 52.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.3) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 75.0 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 68.5 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
North Macedonia sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
North Macedonia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Palau
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 100.0 | Water stress (-9999) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 28.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.14) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.8 | Working-age ratio (0.71) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Palau sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Palau is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Panama
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.27 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.89) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 1/5 | 0.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.00) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 22.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.94) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 80.1 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Panama sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Panama is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Papua New Guinea
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 73.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.89) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 17.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.66) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 74.6 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Papua New Guinea sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Papua New Guinea is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Paraguay
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 3.81 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 90.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (2.33) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 88.5 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.05) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 63.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (19.0) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 79.7 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Paraguay sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Paraguay is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Portugal
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 32.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.74) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 22.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.23) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 49.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.8) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 61.4 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 72.5 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Portugal sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Portugal is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Romania
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.57 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.01) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 59.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.72) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 58.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.2) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.6 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 70.2 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Romania sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Romania is relatively strongest in security, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Rwanda
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 54.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.80) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 74.4 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.89) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 32.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.94) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 60.8 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Rwanda sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Rwanda is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Samoa
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 42.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.70) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 37.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.21) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 53.1 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Samoa sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Samoa is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# San Marino
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 1/5 | 11.0 | Water stress (4.45) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 5/5 | 95.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (31.8) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 68.1 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
San Marino sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
San Marino is relatively strongest in technology, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is food at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Sao Tome and Principe
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 62.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.11) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 26.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (0.62) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 58.7 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Sao Tome and Principe is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Sao Tome and Principe is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Senegal
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.55 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 41.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.74) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 28.2 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.31) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 47.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (13.9) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 58.8 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Senegal sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Senegal is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Serbia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe]] | **Composite:** 3.25 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 80.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.27) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 48.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.57) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 47.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (12.7) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 64.8 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 26.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Serbia sits in Non-EU Europe, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/non_eu_europe|Non-EU Europe Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Serbia is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Seychelles
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.50) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 15.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.17) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 91.3 | Working-age ratio (0.72) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Seychelles sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Seychelles is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Sierra Leone
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 59.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.90) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 22.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (6.96) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 60.5 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Sierra Leone sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Sierra Leone is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Slovak Republic
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.48 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Energy (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.81) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 36.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.42) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 63.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (16.3) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 75.5 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 72.1 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Slovak Republic sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Slovak Republic is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is energy at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Slovenia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27]] | **Composite:** 3.57 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 42.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.60) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 43.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.51) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 71.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (19.4) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 66.3 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 4/5 | 71.5 | Nuclear weapons status (nuclear umbrella) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Slovenia sits in EU-27, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is energy (2.2/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/eu_27|EU-27 Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Slovenia is relatively strongest in technology, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is food at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Solomon Islands
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 76.9 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.33) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 33.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (10.1) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 63.4 | Working-age ratio (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Solomon Islands sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Solomon Islands is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Somalia, Fed. Rep.
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 66.5 | Water stress (1.67) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 13.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.94) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 2/5 | 36.5 | Working-age ratio (0.51) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 16.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Somalia, Fed. Rep. sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Somalia, Fed. Rep. is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (1990)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# South Sudan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.27 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 72.1 | Water stress (1.39) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (9.60) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 14.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.53) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 56.1 | Working-age ratio (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
South Sudan sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
South Sudan is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2015)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Sri Lanka
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere]] | **Composite:** 2.35 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 45.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.69) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 35.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.40) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 52.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (17.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 79.0 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 19.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Sri Lanka sits in India Sphere, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.7/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/india_sphere|India Sphere Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Sri Lanka is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# St. Kitts and Nevis
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 33.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.51) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 36.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.90) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 90.0 | Working-age ratio (0.71) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
St. Kitts and Nevis is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
St. Kitts and Nevis is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# St. Lucia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 29.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.36) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 22.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (2.93) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 90.9 | Working-age ratio (0.73) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
St. Lucia is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
St. Lucia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# St. Vincent and the Grenadines
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 30.6 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.41) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 21.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (3.76) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 81.4 | Working-age ratio (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
St. Vincent and the Grenadines is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Sudan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.17 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 70.8 | Water stress (1.46) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 66.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.81) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 18.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (5.13) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 53.7 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Sudan sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Sudan is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Suriname
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 3.44 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 44.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.50) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 72.7 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.88) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 4/5 | 74.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (19.8) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 82.9 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 24.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Suriname sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Suriname is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2023)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
---
# Syrian Arab Republic
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East]] | **Composite:** 2.00 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 36.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 2/5 | 34.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.39) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 1/5 | 13.8 | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (1.38) | ESTIMATED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 78.9 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Syrian Arab Republic sits in Middle East, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is food (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Syrian Arab Republic is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2021)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Tajikistan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.18 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (3/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 43.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.60) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 59.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.72) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 53.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 66.7 | Working-age ratio (0.60) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 3/5 | 40.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Tajikistan sits in Central Asia, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.3/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Tajikistan is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 3/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Tanzania
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 61.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.02) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 72.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.87) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 28.0 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (8.06) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 47.5 | Working-age ratio (0.54) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.1 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Tanzania sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Tanzania is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Timor-Leste
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 32.3 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.47) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 9.5 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.90) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 66.3 | Working-age ratio (0.60) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 25.2 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Timor-Leste is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Timor-Leste is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Togo
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.99 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 99.9 | Water stress (0.00) | ESTIMATED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 67.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.82) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 36.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.4) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 56.6 | Working-age ratio (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 23.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Togo sits in West Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (3.9/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/west_africa|West Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Togo is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2018)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Tonga
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 34.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.55) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 39.9 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (4.96) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 58.6 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Tonga sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Tonga is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
---
# Trinidad and Tobago
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned]] | **Composite:** 3.13 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 39.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.43) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.75) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 40.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.4) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 89.2 | Working-age ratio (0.70) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 24.3 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Trinidad and Tobago is not yet assigned to a published Phase 1 bloc, so this page reports country-level scores without a regional aggregation overlay.
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/unassigned|Unassigned Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Trinidad and Tobago is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Tunisia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East]] | **Composite:** 2.83 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 2/5 | 37.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.67) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 40.1 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.47) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 54.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (14.8) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 5/5 | 81.8 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 26.7 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Tunisia sits in Middle East, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is food (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Tunisia is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Turkmenistan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.25 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 50.5 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.75) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (2.10) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 59.7 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (18.0) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 79.1 | Working-age ratio (0.64) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 27.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Turkmenistan sits in Central Asia, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.3/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Turkmenistan is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
---
# Tuvalu
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 45.1 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.59) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 4.1 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (1.03) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 69.9 | Working-age ratio (0.61) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Tuvalu sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Tuvalu is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2011)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# Uganda
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa]] | **Composite:** 3.10 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 65.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.96) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 64.6 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.80) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 44.3 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (15.1) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 46.2 | Working-age ratio (0.54) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 21.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Uganda sits in East Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.5/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/east_africa|East Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Uganda is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Uruguay
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 3.25 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 5/5 | 84.2 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.68) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 3/5 | 45.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.54) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 42.2 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.69) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.3 | Working-age ratio (0.66) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 31.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Uruguay sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Uruguay is relatively strongest in food, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Uzbekistan
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia]] | **Composite:** 3.25 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 51.7 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.79) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 83.5 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.98) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 59.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (20.2) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 76.7 | Working-age ratio (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 27.5 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Uzbekistan sits in Central Asia, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (2.3/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/central_asia|Central Asia Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Uzbekistan is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Vanuatu
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Technology (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 56.0 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.99) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 1/5 | 9.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (2.35) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 58.4 | Working-age ratio (0.57) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Vanuatu sits in Oceania, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.0/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/oceania|Oceania Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Vanuatu is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is technology at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank (2022)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset (2026)
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# Venezuela, RB
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America]] | **Composite:** 2.61 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 49.4 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.63) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 100.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.74) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 38.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (11.6) | PARTIAL |
| Demographics | 4/5 | 77.0 | Working-age ratio (0.65) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 16.6 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Venezuela, RB sits in Latin America, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.6/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.9/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/latin_america|Latin America Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Venezuela, RB is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# West Bank and Gaza
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East]] | **Composite:** N/A / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | N/A/5 | N/A | Fertilizer import dependency (0.77) | NO DATA |
| Energy | N/A/5 | N/A | No scored metrics available | NO DATA |
| Technology | 2/5 | 34.4 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.93) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 59.8 | Working-age ratio (0.58) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 18.4 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
West Bank and Gaza sits in Middle East, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is food (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
West Bank and Gaza is relatively strongest in demographics, where the current display score is 3/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Food, Energy. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Food, Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient (2023)
- Energy: no source data available
- Technology: Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2023)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index (2026)
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# Yemen, Rep.
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East]] | **Composite:** 2.27 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Food (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 1/5 | 11.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.28) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 5/5 | 93.3 | Energy production/consumption ratio (1.11) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 38.9 | High-tech exports (% manufactured exports) (4.83) | ESTIMATED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 54.4 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 22.9 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Yemen, Rep. sits in Middle East, where the strongest shared factor is demographics (4.5/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is food (1.8/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/middle_east|Middle East Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Yemen, Rep. is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 5/5. The weakest available factor is food at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Lower-confidence coverage currently affects Technology. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Zambia
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.86 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (2/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 4/5 | 71.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (1.11) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 76.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.91) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 2/5 | 28.8 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (9.05) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 53.4 | Working-age ratio (0.56) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 2/5 | 20.8 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Zambia sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Zambia is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 2/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)
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# Zimbabwe
**Region:** [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa]] | **Composite:** 2.55 / 5.0 (geometric mean) | **Weakest Factor:** Security (1/5) | **Tier:** 3 | **Data:** 2026
## Score Snapshot
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| Factor | Score | Continuous | Key Metric | Confidence |
|--------|-------|------------|------------|------------|
| Food | 3/5 | 43.8 | Caloric self-sufficiency (0.76) | VERIFIED |
| Energy | 4/5 | 68.0 | Energy production/consumption ratio (0.83) | PARTIAL |
| Technology | 3/5 | 45.6 | Manufacturing value added (% GDP) (15.6) | VERIFIED |
| Demographics | 3/5 | 50.0 | Working-age ratio (0.55) | VERIFIED |
| Security | 1/5 | 15.0 | Nuclear weapons status (none) | PARTIAL |
## Bloc Context
Zimbabwe sits in Southern Africa, where the strongest shared factor is energy (4.1/5 average) and the weakest shared factor is security (1.6/5 average).
*See [[country-matrix/blocs/southern_africa|Southern Africa Analysis]] for regional aggregation and complementarity.*
## Factor Notes
Zimbabwe is relatively strongest in energy, where the current display score is 4/5. The weakest available factor is security at 1/5, which is the main quantitative constraint in this auto-generated profile. Missing supplementary metrics do not block page generation, but they reduce detail for Energy, Technology, Demographics, Security.
## Sources
- Food: FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Food Balance Sheets (derived), FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct (2023)
- Energy: World Bank WDI (2022)
- Technology: Harvard Growth Lab, Our World in Data / World Bank, World Bank WDI (2024)
- Demographics: Our World in Data / UN World Population Prospects (2023)
- Security: Curated dataset, Fragile States Index, World Bank WDI (2026)