Every national leader, scored across up to eight dimensions of tenure contribution — from governance and economy to politics and crisis response. Compare current form against the legacy they'll leave behind.
SourceWorld Bank + derivedMethodWeighted averageConfMedium✓ ReconstructableⓘLeadership Rating measures change under the leader relative to global trends — a score near 60 means performance broadly matched the benchmark trajectory. It is a weighted average of up to eight dimensions, renormalised over the ones with sourced data (the coverage note beside the score says how many), and requires all four core dimensions — Governance, Economy, Politics and Institutional Integrity — to be sourced. Five use live World Bank indicators; the rest are derived from sourced signals (WIPO/Oxford/UNESCO, GDELT, World Bank + UCDP, survey data) where coverage exists. Diplomacy is a GDELT-derived engagement proxy, and anything unsourced shows as no data. Political position is V-Dem V-Party expert coding. Full weights on the Methodology page.
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Pope Leo XIV, Pope of Vatican City, has no composite Leadership score yet — too few dimensions have sourced data to compute one. Their standout dimension is Diplomacy (74/100).
The data & sources
Pope Leo XIV carries no composite rating: too few dimensions have sourced data, so it renders as "No data" rather than a filled-in guess. Diplomatic Conduct 74/100 (medium confidence) — performance-under-test blend from directed GDELT events + UCDP.
The risk read
Pope Leo XIV's governing-stability conditions have no sourced score yet, so treat leadership-driven country risk as unquantified here. For the full opportunity, market-pulse and resilience read, see Vatican City's nation page.
The strategic read
A strategic read of Pope Leo XIV's governing profile.
Communication Signal
Awaiting data
No sourced communication signal yet. This blends GDELT coverage tone, media reach and message resilience — it populates once GDELT indexes enough coverage of this leader.
Diplomatic Conduct
74/ 10090% sourced · severity 11
Conduct 66 · Test Severity 11 → 74
Cooperative ratio20%89
Share of the country's international interactions coded cooperative vs conflictual
Restraint20%48
Inverse of net material force the country projects — armed-conflict events it initiates minus those it absorbs. Force projected abroad lowers it; being invaded does not
Coalition breadth15%71
Crisis
Exposure
—/ 100
Awaiting data
Response
—/ 100
Awaiting data
No sourced crisis signal yet. The World Bank GDP, UCDP battle-death and WGI political-stability series that drive this score don't cover this leader's mandate years yet — the card populates once those annual series extend into the current term.
Country scores are blended with live World Bank data where available. Difficulty reflects the structural challenge of governing this nation — not the leader's individual performance.
Source: World Bank·Method: Unweighted average·✓ Reconstructableⓘ
Leadership Archetype
Awaiting data
No archetype yet — not enough sourced stats to classify one. The archetype is derived from the leadership stat profile; it populates once enough dimensions are sourced.
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Key questions
Who is Pope Leo XIV?
Pope Leo XIV is the Pope of Vatican City, with no party affiliation.
How is Pope Leo XIV viewed internationally?
Pope Leo XIV has a Diplomatic Conduct score of 74/100.
Data coverage:107 Sourced·85 Derived|Scores refreshed: 2026-08-24·snap-20260824-c9f25cd0|Methodology:Reconstructable|Cite:How to cite
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How many distinct countries it cooperates with as initiator
Agreements & mediation15%59
Mediating, negotiating and signing formal agreements as initiator (GDELT CAMEO)
Sanctions balance10%72
Sanctions the country imposes minus those imposed on it
Engagement volume10%58
Count of international diplomatic events — country-level
Media tone10%—
Favourability of foreign coverage of the leader on diplomacy — leader-level, low-weighted
Partial coverage: 90% of the formula's weight is currently sourced; the score renormalises over what's present. Remaining components appear as data lands.
SourceGDELT 2.1 Events + DOC APIMethodPerformance-under-test blend, severity-amplifiedConfMedium✓ ReconstructableⓘHow a head of state conducts themselves on the world stage, not how much activity their country generates. Blends cooperative ratio (20%), Restraint (inverse of net force projected, 20%), coalition breadth (15%), agreements & mediation (15%), sanctions balance (10%), engagement (10%) and leader media tone (10%), renormalised over available data. Test Severity (active conflict + conflictual share + sanctions received) amplifies the blend so conduct under fire moves the score more. Full model on the Methodology page.
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Crisis Response
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Vision
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Communication
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Institutional Integrity
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Source: World Bank + derived·Method: Contribution·✓ ReconstructableⓘEach dimension measures change under the leader relative to global trends — how the indicator moved over their tenure, net of the world's move over the same window — not the country's absolute level. A score near 60 means performance broadly matched the benchmark trajectory; above = improved the country's standing, below = declined. Governance / Economy / Politics / Institutional Integrity from World Bank WGI, WDI and V-Dem trajectories; Vision from the country's innovation rank (WIPO patents + UNESCO tertiary), former leaders only (patents lag ~3 years); Crisis Response (World Bank + UCDP + WGI, an absolute response-quality scale) and Communication (GDELT) from tenure signals; Diplomacy (Diplomatic Conduct) is active-only. A tenure under six months, or an indicator whose series hasn't reached the term, shows as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Stewardship
Inherited-strength lens · separate from the rating
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Governance
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Politics
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Integrity
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Innovation
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0 of 4 groups eligible and sourced
Source: World Bank WGI + V-Dem + derived·Method: Stewardship·✓ ReconstructableⓘMeasures whether strong institutions inherited at the start of the tenure were preserved, improved or eroded. It does not reward the leader for inheriting a strong country. A metric qualifies only when the inherited baseline was at least 75 on its normalized scale; the score is the world-net change over the tenure on the single public scale (60 = preserved relative to global movement). Requires two or more eligible sourced groups, the six-month tenure floor and a post-tenure-start observation — otherwise No data, never a zero. Weights mirror the current-form groups (gov 0.17 · pol 0.15 · int 0.08 · vis 0.09), renormalized over what is eligible and sourced.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Top Strengths
Diplomacy74
International relations and multilateral negotiation
Key Weaknesses
Source: Derived·Method: Ranked by stat value·✓ ReconstructableⓘUp to 5 strengths (dimensions scoring 70+) and 5 weaknesses (scoring 57 or below), ranked from the leadership radar. Dimensions in the 58–69 benchmark band appear in neither column. Descriptions are fixed per dimension and don't vary by country. Dimensions without a sourced signal show as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Current Challenges
Awaiting data
No flagged challenges — no key dimension is below its threshold, or the sourced indicators that drive these flags aren't in yet.
Leadership Conditions
Government stability
—/ 100
Awaiting data
External conditions
—/ 100
Awaiting data
No sourced governing conditions yet. Government Stability blends WGI, V-Dem, UCDP and Fragile States signals; External Conditions derives from a World Bank GDP-growth shock — the card fills in once those cover this tenure.
Country scores are the unweighted average of scored World Bank indicators — the same model used on the nation's own page. Difficulty reflects structural constraints on governing this nation, independent of the current leader.
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