The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (93/100) — sharpest risk, innovation weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 76/100 | Financial Account Ownership |
| Governance | 57/100 | Business Entry |
| Quality of Life | 93/100 | Tertiary Enrolment (Gross) |
| Innovation | 52/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 75/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | −1 | now 65, versus 66 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 59/100 | Pandemic 81 · Banking Crisis 70 · War / Conflict 39 · Natural Disaster 47 |
| Strategic Position | 58/100 | Demographics 71 · Resources 14 · Stability 75 · Education 89 · Technology 52 · Geopolitics 45 |
Cyprus scores 71 (strong) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: down 1 point versus three years ago (now 65). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (93/100). 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.
Cyprus scores 71 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (strong) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (93/100) and its weakest is Innovation (52/100).
Cyprus' Stability score is 75 out of 100 (strong), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Cyprus' Economy score is 76 out of 100 (strong), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Cyprus' Quality of Life score is 93 out of 100 (strong), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Cyprus' Governance score is 57 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Cyprus' Innovation score is 52 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Cyprus is down 1 point versus three years ago — 65 now, from 66 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Cyprus' defining asset is financial account ownership, while its sharpest risk is innovation weakness — patent Applications 0.74 per million — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Cyprus' Strategic Position score is 58 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, Cyprus scores 67 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 59/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.