How does your leader really rank?
Every national leader, scored across nine dimensions of power — from economy and diplomacy to crisis management and defense. Compare current form against the legacy they'll leave behind, and see who's really delivering.
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The story
Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of South Sudan, is rated 24 (lower tier) on NationsHelm's Leadership scale. In global media, their Communication signal reads 38/100 (high confidence), tracked from GDELT. The pressure to watch: Economic Pressure — Economy score of 15 indicates ongoing challenges with macroeconomic management in South Sudan.
Downloadable NationsHelm cards for each signal in this dossier.
Perceived transparency and anti-corruption track record
Strategic foresight and long-term reform capacity
State management and policy execution capacity
Favourability of media coverage over the tenure (GDELT tenure-mean tone), cross-leader percentile
Media volume (GDELT tenure-median daily coverage) percentile, gated down when coverage is hostile
Does tone / approval hold up when attention spikes vs. calmer periods (derived)
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Salva Kiir Mayardit is the President of South Sudan, from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.
Salva Kiir Mayardit holds a Leadership Rating of 24 out of 100 (very weak). It is a derived blend of sourced leadership dimensions — governance, communication, diplomacy and others — never an estimate.
The main pressures are economic pressure and governance accountability. Economy score of 15 indicates ongoing challenges with macroeconomic management in South Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit has a Communication signal of 38/100 from GDELT media coverage and a Diplomatic Signal of 53/100 from GDELT events.
Economic stewardship, growth, and macro stability
Political coalition-building and governability
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.
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.
Moderate exposure
In line with comparable crises
Worst year (2016) — shock drivers
Each is a global percentile: how this year's shock compares to every country-year on record. Disaster shocks are not yet sourced (no open-licensed annual series).
Sourced from 16 mandate-years (2011–2026), 3 of 4 shock components present; damage ranked against 420 comparable crises.
International diplomatic events the country takes part in (GDELT Events) — country-level
Share of international interactions coded cooperative vs conflictual — country-level
Favourability of foreign coverage of the leader on diplomacy — leader-level
Distinct foreign source countries covering the leader on diplomacy — leader-level
Partial coverage: 70% of the formula's weight is currently sourced; the score renormalises over what's present. Remaining components appear as data lands.
Reach is discounted to 40% of its raw percentile because tenure-mean coverage tone skews unfavourable — hostile attention isn't credited as positive reach.
Economy score of 15 indicates ongoing challenges with macroeconomic management in South Sudan.
Institutional Integrity score of 2 reflects persistent accountability pressures that constrain institutional effectiveness.
Stability score of 35 indicates the system's performance is heavily dependent on this leader — a concentration risk.
Continuity & legitimacy of 4 points to a contested or fragile mandate underpinning South Sudan's institutions.
Contested legitimacy · High factional pressure · Weak rule of law
Adverse global conditions.
WGI Political Stability & Absence of Violence
WGI Rule of Law, Government Effectiveness & Control of Corruption
V-Dem political continuity and regime legitimacy
UCDP organized-violence deaths, population-scaled and inverted — prefers the fresh current-year UCDP-CED reading, else the finalized annual GED
Fragile States Index social-cohesion pillar
3-year direction of the WGI stability score
