The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Economy (54/100) — sharpest risk, quality of Life weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 54/100 | — |
| Governance | 40/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 54/100 | Literacy Rate |
| Innovation | 19/100 | — |
| Stability | 48/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +3 | now 45, versus 42 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 47/100 | Pandemic 53 · Banking Crisis 54 · War / Conflict — · Natural Disaster 35 |
| Strategic Position | 43/100 | Demographics 74 · Resources 15 · Stability 48 · Education 74 · Technology 19 · Geopolitics 30 |
Papua New Guinea scores 43 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 3 points versus three years ago (now 45). Its strongest area is Economy (54/100). The risk drawing attention: Quality of Life 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.
Papua New Guinea scores 43 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Economy (54/100) and its weakest is Innovation (19/100).
Papua New Guinea's Stability score is 48 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Papua New Guinea's Economy score is 54 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Papua New Guinea's Quality of Life score is 54 out of 100 (weak), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Papua New Guinea's Governance score is 40 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Papua New Guinea's Innovation score is 19 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, Papua New Guinea is up 3 points versus three years ago — 45 now, from 42 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Papua New Guinea's defining asset is oil and gas, while its sharpest risk is quality of life weakness — basic Sanitation Access 23.57% — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Papua New Guinea's Strategic Position score is 43 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, Papua New Guinea scores 40 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 47/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.