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Strategic Position Score

How well-positioned is this nation for the next 10 years — combining demographics, resources, stability, education, technology, and geopolitics.

38
54
Demographics
31
Resources
75
Stability
36
Education
20
Technology
12
Geopolitics
🇹🇱Timor-Leste
Overall Score
51
Save Difficulty
Hard

Key driver/drag compare this nation's own metrics against each other, not a trend over time. Metrics marked live are fetched from the World Bank; derived, curated, and beta-estimated values are labeled throughout.

Global Media Signal

Media attention and tone history are not available for this country yet.

Market Pulse

Equity, currency & commodity signals

No market data available for this country yet.

Global regime:Dollar Pressure

Global markets are showing dollar-pressure signals as gold has outpaced oil.

National Momentum

5251
Economy 6459
Governance 4441
Quality of Life 6561
Innovation 1520
Stability 7175

Category deltas are illustrative baselines. Real historical data for individual metrics is shown in the charts within each category section below.

Opportunity Index

If you had to put your money somewhere — open a business, emigrate, or invest — where would this nation rank?

29
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
67
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
49
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threats

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Leadership

Current
José Ramos-Horta
President · 2022–present
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LLM Insights

Predictive Analytics
Transition Risk Prediction

Forecasts how smoothly a leadership or policy transition would go, based on institutional stability and current momentum.

Resilience baselineMomentum trendGovernance scoreCrisis history
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🛡Geopolitical Risk Score

Ongoing risk signal blending external threats, alliance exposure, and shock sensitivity.

Active threatsBloc exposureShock scenariosDefense posture
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📉Stability Erosion Detection

Surfaces gradual drift across categories that wouldn't trip a hard alert on its own.

Category driftMomentum deltasQuality-of-life trendFiscal trend
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🏛Institutional Bottleneck Mapping

Identifies where governance gaps or reform friction are slowing this nation's progress.

Reform difficultyGovernance scoreRisk countLegacy constraints
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🤝Strategic Opportunity Detection

Recommends where this nation has the most upside, based on its own opportunity index.

Opportunity indexAsset strengthsUntapped verticalsBloc adjacency
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Policy Gap Detection

Flags policy or structural gaps that could expose this nation to compliance, fiscal, or reputational risk.

Threat countRegime constraintsFiscal exposureTreaty coverage
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Insights are derived from this nation's own resilience, momentum, SWOT, and opportunity data — not a live model call.

Resilience

62
Pandemic65

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis75

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict43

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster65

Fiscal health, food self-sufficiency, government effectiveness

Shock-response scores derived from this nation's own metrics (healthcare, fiscal health, military, food self-sufficiency, etc.), not from any actual crisis event.

AI Readiness

16.75
Early StageGlobal rank #179 / 195
Policy Capacity
4
Governance
3
AI Infrastructure
24
Public Sector Adoption
23
Development & Diffusion
23
Resilience
24

AI Strengths

    What this country is ready for

    AI Gaps

    • Policy Capacity
    • Governance

    What may hold it back

    Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 · 6 pillars · 14 dimensions · 69 indicators

    Nation Profile

    Geography

    Area
    14,870 km²
    Population
    1.4M
    Density
    94.2/km²
    Coastline
    Coastal access

    Political System

    Government Type
    Semi-Presidential Republic
    Regime (derived)
    Hybrid
    Elections
    Multi-party elections

    Main Industries

    Oil & GasAgriculture

    Energy

    Oil
    Natural Gas
    Coal
    Nuclear
    🟡Hydropower
    Solar
    🟡Wind

    Strategic Resources

    Lithium
    🟡Rare Earths
    🟡Copper
    Iron
    Gold
    Silver
    Fresh Water

    Food Capacity

    Arable Land
    18.2%
    Food Exports
    30
    Self-Sufficiency
    41

    Industries and government type are best-effort curated facts. Energy/resource tiers, food capacity, and military figures are curated estimates. Area and population are sourced from World Bank (periodically refreshed).

    Live Situation

    No recent news events tracked for this country yet.

    Global Influence

    Diplomatic Relations
    14
    Governance Score
    40
    Share of Tracked GDP
    0%

    Bloc membership: curated fact. Diplomatic relations: bilateral partner count via Wikidata. Governance Score: World Bank WGI composite (effectiveness, anti-corruption, rule of law), scaled 0–100. "Share of Tracked GDP" is this nation's estimated GDP as a share of the 203 nations in this dataset — not a true world-GDP share.

    Military

    34
    Active Personnel
    2K
    Reserve Personnel
    Tanks
    3
    Aircraft
    2
    Naval Assets
    0
    Aircraft Carriers
    0
    Overseas Bases
    Nuclear Weapons
    No

    Personnel from World Bank / IISS. Equipment (tanks, aircraft, naval) from GlobalFirepower. Nuclear status and carrier counts are verified public record. Overseas bases are estimates.

    Economy

    59
    ▲ Key driverPublic Spending (60.6% of GDP)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragGDP Growth (-9.1%)· as of 2024

    Growth

    Inflation

    Fiscal Health

    Labor Market

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    Governance

    41
    ▲ Key driverTime to Open a Business (13 days)· as of 2019-12-31
    ▼ Key dragContract Enforcement (legacy) (6.1)· as of 2019-12-31

    Government Effectiveness

    Rule of Law

    Dispute Resolution

    Corruption

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    Quality of Life

    61
    ▲ Key driverHomicide Rate (4.06594633033822 per 100k)· as of 2015
    ▼ Key dragPISA Score (371.4)· as of 2020

    Safety

    Healthcare

    Education

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    Innovation

    20
    ▲ Key driverInternet Penetration (35.0%)· as of 2021
    ▼ Key dragNew Business Rate (2.33534075688993 per 1k)· as of 2022

    Tech

    Connectivity

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    Stability

    75
    ▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (74.9)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (74.9)· as of 2024

    Political Stability

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    Historical Trends

    World Bank
    Data coverage: 27 live·2 derived·0 curatedLast refreshed: Jul 4, 2026Methodology: Reconstructable
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