The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Stability (70/100) — sharpest risk, economy weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 47/100 | Public Spending |
| Governance | 40/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 58/100 | Electricity Access |
| Innovation | 23/100 | — |
| Stability | 70/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +3 | now 50, versus 47 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 43/100 | Pandemic 50 · Banking Crisis 47 · War / Conflict 34 · Natural Disaster 39 |
| Strategic Position | 40/100 | Demographics 72 · Resources 11 · Stability 70 · Education 36 · Technology 23 · Geopolitics 28 |
Timor-Leste scores 48 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 3 points versus three years ago (now 50). Its strongest area is Stability (70/100). 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.
Timor-Leste scores 48 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Stability (70/100) and its weakest is Innovation (23/100).
Timor-Leste's Stability score is 70 out of 100 (strong), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Timor-Leste's Economy score is 47 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Timor-Leste's Quality of Life score is 58 out of 100 (moderate), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Timor-Leste's Governance score is 40 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Timor-Leste's Innovation score is 23 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, Timor-Leste is up 3 points versus three years ago — 50 now, from 47 — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Timor-Leste's defining asset is public spending, while its sharpest risk is economy weakness — GDP Growth −9.1% — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Timor-Leste'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, Timor-Leste scores 44 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 43/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.