The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Innovation (53/100) — sharpest risk, active armed conflict.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 42/100 | Financial Account Ownership |
| Governance | 26/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 40/100 | Electricity Access |
| Innovation | 53/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 31/100 | — |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | −1 | now 47, versus 48 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 48/100 | Pandemic 61 · Banking Crisis 39 · War / Conflict 42 · Natural Disaster 49 |
| Strategic Position | 48/100 | Demographics 81 · Resources 15 · Stability 31 · Education 75 · Technology 53 · Geopolitics 32 |
Iran scores 38 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: down 1 point versus three years ago (now 47). Its strongest area is Innovation (53/100). The risk drawing attention: Active armed conflict.
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.
Iran scores 38 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Innovation (53/100) and its weakest is Governance (26/100).
Iran's Stability score is 31 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Iran's Economy score is 42 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Iran's Quality of Life score is 40 out of 100 (weak), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Iran's Governance score is 26 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Iran's Innovation score is 53 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, Iran is down 1 point versus three years ago — 47 now, from 48 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Iran's defining asset is financial account ownership, while its sharpest risk is active armed conflict — active organized-violence party this year (UCDP current-year toll).
Iran's Strategic Position score is 48 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, Iran scores 43 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 48/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.