The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (60/100) — sharpest risk, innovation weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 41/100 | — |
| Governance | 28/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 60/100 | Electricity Access |
| Innovation | 37/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 37/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +5 | now 44, versus 39 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 45/100 | Pandemic 56 · Banking Crisis 42 · War / Conflict 42 · Natural Disaster 41 |
| Strategic Position | 38/100 | Demographics 71 · Resources 15 · Stability 37 · Education 34 · Technology 37 · Geopolitics 31 |
Iraq scores 41 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 5 points versus three years ago (now 44). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (60/100). 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.
Iraq scores 41 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (60/100) and its weakest is Governance (28/100).
Iraq's Stability score is 37 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Iraq's Economy score is 41 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Iraq's Quality of Life score is 60 out of 100 (moderate), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Iraq's Governance score is 28 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Iraq's Innovation score is 37 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, Iraq is up 5 points versus three years ago — 44 now, from 39 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Iraq's defining asset is petroleum, while its sharpest risk is innovation weakness — patent Applications 13.79 per million — the category's weakest input (2/100).
Iraq's Strategic Position score is 38 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, Iraq scores 39 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 45/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.