The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (40/100) — sharpest risk, active armed conflict.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 14/100 | — |
| Governance | 20/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 40/100 | Basic Sanitation Access |
| Innovation | 16/100 | — |
| Stability | 20/100 | — |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +1 | now 31, versus 30 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 30/100 | Pandemic 43 · Banking Crisis 13 · War / Conflict 31 · Natural Disaster 33 |
| Strategic Position | 40/100 | Demographics 87 · Resources 15 · Stability 20 · Education 79 · Technology 16 · Geopolitics 21 |
Syria scores 22 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 1 point versus three years ago (now 31). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (40/100). 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.
Syria scores 22 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (40/100) and its weakest is Economy (14/100).
Syria's Stability score is 20 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Syria's Economy score is 14 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Syria'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.
Syria's Governance score is 20 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Syria's Innovation score is 16 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, Syria is up 1 point versus three years ago — 31 now, from 30 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Syria's defining asset is petroleum, while its sharpest risk is active armed conflict — active organized-violence party this year (UCDP current-year toll).
Syria's Strategic Position score is 40 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, Syria scores 16 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 30/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.