The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (95/100) — sharpest risk, innovation weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 71/100 | Labour Productivity |
| Governance | 78/100 | Judicial Independence |
| Quality of Life | 95/100 | Tertiary Enrolment (Gross) |
| Innovation | 63/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 79/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | −4 | now 67, versus 71 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 63/100 | Pandemic 78 · Banking Crisis 61 · War / Conflict 48 · Natural Disaster 66 |
| Strategic Position | 61/100 | Demographics 54 · Resources 26 · Stability 79 · Education 90 · Technology 63 · Geopolitics 51 |
Austria scores 77 (strong) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: down 4 points versus three years ago (now 67). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (95/100). The risk drawing attention: Innovation weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
Austria scores 77 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (strong) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (95/100) and its weakest is Innovation (63/100).
Austria's Stability score is 79 out of 100 (strong), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Austria's Economy score is 71 out of 100 (strong), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Austria's Quality of Life score is 95 out of 100 (strong), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Austria's Governance score is 78 out of 100 (strong), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Austria's Innovation score is 63 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Austria is down 4 points versus three years ago — 67 now, from 71 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Austria's defining asset is labour productivity, while its sharpest risk is innovation weakness — new Business Rate 1 per 1k — the category's weakest input (4/100).
Austria's Strategic Position score is 61 out of 100 (moderate), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, Austria scores 70 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 63/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.