Global rankings
The board — every nation, tracked.
203 nations ranked on resilience, strategic position, opportunity, risk, and momentum — from sourced indicators, scored deterministically.
Global rankings
The board — every nation, tracked.
203 nations ranked on resilience, strategic position, opportunity, risk, and momentum — from sourced indicators, scored deterministically.
Last updated 2026-07-26
Which small nations punch above their weight? The list below ranks nations by Overall, computed only from sourced public indicators — see the methodology. Entries without a sourced score are excluded, never filled in. This list is scoped to nations under 15 million people that score 70 or higher overall — small states holding their own against far larger ones. Larger nations are ranked in Top Countries Overall.
Scores are 0–100. Prefer an interactive, sortable view across every metric? Open the board →
Denmark ranks first among nations for Overall, at 86/100, ahead of Norway (85/100) and Singapore (84/100). This page answers a single question — "Which small nations punch above their weight?" — and the list below is the answer, drawn straight from the record.
Across the top 23 nations, Overall runs from 86/100 down to 70/100 — a spread of 16 points, with a median of 77/100. This list is scoped to nations under 15 million people that score 70 or higher overall — small states holding their own against far larger ones. Larger nations are ranked in Top Countries Overall.
Every score is computed only from sourced public indicators and expressed on a 0–100 scale. Nations without a sourced Overall value are excluded from the ranking, never filled in — see the methodology for the exact inputs and weights behind the number.
This ranking is not hand-edited: it regenerates whenever NationsHelm publishes a new data snapshot, so it can never drift from the underlying scores. Last updated 2026-07-26.
Denmark (86/100), Norway (85/100) and Singapore (84/100), and 20 more — ranked by Overall, computed only from sourced public indicators. The full top 23 is on this page.
It is computed only from sourced public indicators and expressed on a 0–100 scale. Nations without a sourced value are excluded, never estimated. The exact inputs, weights, and sources are documented on the methodology page.
It regenerates automatically whenever NationsHelm publishes a new data snapshot, so it always matches the scores shown across the site. Last updated 2026-07-26.
No. Every score traces to a citable public source and is produced deterministically — nothing is invented. Where a nation has no sourced data, the value is shown as "No data" and the nation is left out of the ranking rather than guessed.