The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (59/100) — sharpest risk, economy weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 43/100 | — |
| Governance | 48/100 | Ease of Resolving Disputes |
| Quality of Life | 59/100 | Electricity Access |
| Innovation | 28/100 | — |
| Stability | 58/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +1 | now 47, versus 46 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 49/100 | Pandemic 55 · Banking Crisis 44 · War / Conflict 37 · Natural Disaster 59 |
| Strategic Position | 37/100 | Demographics 71 · Resources 12 · Stability 58 · Education 29 · Technology 28 · Geopolitics 21 |
Nepal scores 47 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 1 point versus three years ago (now 47). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (59/100). The risk drawing attention: Economy 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.
Nepal scores 47 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (59/100) and its weakest is Innovation (28/100).
Nepal's Stability score is 58 out of 100 (moderate), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Nepal's Economy score is 43 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Nepal's Quality of Life score is 59 out of 100 (moderate), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Nepal's Governance score is 48 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Nepal's Innovation score is 28 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, Nepal is up 1 point versus three years ago — 47 now, from 46 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Nepal's defining asset is ease of resolving disputes, while its sharpest risk is economy weakness — public Spending 7.44% of GDP — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Nepal's Strategic Position score is 37 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, Nepal scores 42 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 49/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.