The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Stability (46/100) — sharpest risk, quality of Life weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 40/100 | GDP Growth |
| Governance | 26/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 34/100 | — |
| Innovation | 17/100 | — |
| Stability | 46/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | −2 | now 36, versus 38 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 33/100 | Pandemic 36 · Banking Crisis 29 · War / Conflict — · Natural Disaster 33 |
| Strategic Position | 33/100 | Demographics 61 · Resources 7 · Stability 46 · Education 28 · Technology 17 · Geopolitics 40 |
Guinea-Bissau scores 33 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: down 2 points versus three years ago (now 36). Its strongest area is Stability (46/100). The risk drawing attention: Quality of Life weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 107 sourced, 85 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.
Guinea-Bissau holds 2 positions on the ranked country lists, drawn from the same data snapshot as this dossier.
Guinea-Bissau scores 33 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Stability (46/100) and its weakest is Innovation (17/100).
Guinea-Bissau's Stability score is 46 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Guinea-Bissau's Economy score is 40 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Guinea-Bissau's Quality of Life score is 34 out of 100 (weak), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Guinea-Bissau's Governance score is 26 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Guinea-Bissau's Innovation score is 17 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, Guinea-Bissau is down 2 points versus three years ago — 36 now, from 38 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Guinea-Bissau's defining asset is agricultural products processing, while its sharpest risk is quality of life weakness — basic Sanitation Access 28.94% — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Guinea-Bissau's Strategic Position score is 33 out of 100 (weak), 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, Guinea-Bissau scores 33 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 33/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.