Country Resilience Index

The WorldMonitor Country Resilience Index (CRI) scores the 196-country public rankable universe on a 0-100 scale, combining long-run structural capacity with current operational stress to produce an actionable resilience metric. Upstream static/source feeds can include a broader set of territories, but the public CRI ranking is filtered to the rankable universe before score publication. Rather than relying on static country risk ratings, the CRI updates every 6 hours from official and authoritative sources and exposes full provenance, coverage, and imputation context so analysts can see exactly why a score moved and how much of it is real data versus imputed. This document describes the currently shipping behavior of the index. The versioning has two independent axes:

Response shape: schemaVersion: "2.0" is the current default. Every response carries a real pillars[] array regrouping the six domains into structural readiness / live shock exposure / recovery capacity. Pillar scores use each member domain’s published design weight scaled by that domain’s average dimension coverage. The legacy schemaVersion: "1.0" shape (pillars empty) remains available via the RESILIENCE_SCHEMA_V2_ENABLED=false env flag for one release cycle.
Scoring formula: the top-level overall_score is the v2 non-compensatory pillar-combined formula with a min-pillar penalty. The legacy six-domain weighted aggregate remains in code as the rollback path when RESILIENCE_PILLAR_COMBINE_ENABLED=false, but production and validation cron are activated on the pillar-combined formula. The annual Reference Edition is a frozen, citation-quality artifact; it is intentionally separate from the live deployment manifest.

For the live deployment state, use the runtime manifest. It reports the active formula tag, static dataVersion, ranking-cache metadata, safe derived construct versions such as constructVersions.energy (legacy or v2), and intervals availability metadata for the public scoreInterval/rankStable support path without exposing deploy identifiers, raw RESILIENCE_* flag states, or internal cache keys. The Reference Edition remains a frozen shipped bundle; it should not be treated as proof of the runtime state currently active in production. Everything documented below describes the currently shipping state: schemaVersion "2.0" shape, 6 domains × 20 active dimensions × 3 pillars (plus 2 structurally-retired dimensions kept in the registry for schema continuity at coverage=0), the pillar-combined penalized overall_score, and the energy v2 construct. The subsection on Pillar-combined score activation records the activation evidence and rollback mechanics. The live runtime manifest reported formulaTag="pc" and constructVersions.energy="v2" on 2026-06-02, with /api/health reporting OK for the three required energy v2 seed checks (lowCarbonGeneration, fossilElectricityShare, and powerLosses).

Construct contract

Country Resilience measures absolute national shock-absorption and recovery capacity at a point in time. It does not adjust for income level. Development-adjacent indicators enter only when they measure a direct resilience mechanism. Those indicators use threshold or saturating transforms so the score rewards functional capacity, not affluence itself. Peer-relative over- and under-performance will be published separately as an analytical overlay, not inside the core score. The scorer will treat development as relevant only where it creates a direct and measurable shock-absorption mechanism. Pure level-of-affluence proxies are excluded. Development-relative overperformance will be reported separately and will not alter the ordinal country ranking. Every indicator in the scorer is evaluated against a single mechanism test: what direct shock channel does this measure? An indicator whose only answer is “this country is rich” is excluded from the core score regardless of its historical correlation with resilience outcomes. An indicator whose answer is “capacity X absorbs shock Y” can enter but must use a threshold or saturating transform so it rewards the mechanism rather than the level of resource that drives it. Current production already reflects the recovery-domain, currency/external, and energy construct repairs described below: reserveAdequacy and fuelStockDays are structurally retired, liquidReserveAdequacy and sovereignFiscalBuffer are active, currencyExternal scores from IMF inflation plus World Bank reserves, energy uses the v2 power-system-security construct, and the coverage/influence cap is enforced in tests. The legacy energy scorer remains in code only as the emergency rollback path for RESILIENCE_ENERGY_V2_ENABLED=false.

Construct repair status

The first-publication repair plan started with a diagnostic freeze, then sequenced energy repair, dead-signal cleanup, reserve/SWF split, and remaining health-domain follow-up. The current state is:

electricityConsumption was a wealth proxy, not a resilience signal. Landed in PR 1 and activated in production by the 2026-06-02 post-flip audit: the v2 construct replaces it with powerLossesPct (absorbing the full 0.20 grid-integrity share temporarily) plus the indirect effect via accessToElectricityPct (moved to the infrastructure domain). A second grid-integrity signal reserveMarginPct is deferred per plan §3.1 open-question (IEA electricity-balance coverage too sparse); when its seeder ships, 0.10 splits back out of powerLossesPct.
Gas and coal penalized as vulnerability even when domestic. The legacy gasShare / coalShare penalties conflate fossil-dominance with fossil-import-dependence. The v2 energy construct replaces them with a single importedFossilDependence composite using World Bank EG.IMP.CONS.ZS × EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS under the Option B (power-system framing) decision documented in the Energy Domain section.
No nuclear credit in the legacy scoreEnergy path. The v2 construct credits firm low-carbon generation by collapsing renewShare + new nuclear share + hydroelectric into a single lowCarbonGenerationShare indicator sourced from World Bank EG.ELC.NUCL.ZS + EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS + EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS. Hydro is summed explicitly because WB RNEW excludes hydroelectric; without HYRO, hydro-heavy countries (Norway ~95%, Paraguay ~99%, Brazil ~65%, Canada ~60%) would score near zero on this 0.20-weight signal despite having near-100% low-carbon grids.
Sovereign-wealth buffers invisible to reserveAdequacy. Fixed in PR 2 by retiring reserveAdequacy from the active score and splitting the construct into liquidReserveAdequacy + sovereignFiscalBuffer with a three-component haircut (access × liquidity × transparency) and a saturating transform.
Dead and regional-only signals in the global core score. fuelStockDays (100% imputed globally), euGasStorageStress (EU-only), and currencyExternal (BIS 64-economy coverage) currently carry material weight despite insufficient coverage for a world ranking. Landed in PR 3 §3.5: fuelStockDays permanently retired (coverage=0, imputationClass=null for every country — the scorer tags null rather than source-failure so the widget does not render a false “Source down” label, and the dimension is excluded from confidence/coverage averages via the RESILIENCE_RETIRED_DIMENSIONS registry); currencyExternal rebuilt on IMF inflation + WB reserves (no BIS); BIS fxVolatility + fxDeviation demoted to experimental tier; externalDebtCoverage re-goalposted from (0..5) to (0..2) per Greenspan-Guidotti to stop saturating at 100.
No coverage-based weight cap. ~~A dimension at 30% observed coverage carries the same weight as one at 95%.~~ Landed in PR 3 §3.6: CI-enforced gate (tests/resilience-coverage-influence-gate.test.mts) fails the build if any core indicator below the committed 70% coverage floor for the rankable universe carries more than 5% nominal weight in the overall score. The effective-influence half runs via scripts/validate-resilience-sensitivity.mjs as a committed artifact.

Items 1-3 are the now-active energy v2 repair; items 4-6 are landed repairs preserved here as the historical record for why the active registry has 20 scored dimensions plus 2 retired dimensions kept for schema continuity.

In the dashboard

CRI is surfaced across three places in the product, all driven from the same currently-shipping score:

Resilience widget — a standalone panel (component: src/components/ResilienceWidget.ts) that ranks countries by resilience score with filter and search affordances. Reach it from Cmd+K by typing resilience.
Country Deep-Dive — inside the per-country drill-down panel, CRI appears alongside CII (Country Instability Index) as a structural complement to the short-horizon stress signal. CII and CRI are intentionally not interchangeable: CII answers “how much stress is on this country right now?”; CRI answers “how well-positioned is this country to absorb and recover from shocks?”
Map choropleth — the resilience score drives a country-level choropleth layer on the main map. Toggle it from the map’s layer panel or via Cmd+K.

All three dashboard surfaces are free to view. Direct score and ranking API calls require the normal Pro/API auth path, while the runtime manifest is public at /api/resilience/v1/get-runtime-manifest; see Resilience service for the HTTP contract.

Overview

The WorldMonitor Country Resilience Index scores the 196-country public rankable universe on a 0-100 scale across 6 domains and 20 active dimensions (plus 2 structurally-retired dimensions kept in the registry at coverage=0 for schema continuity). The ranking handler can still route low-confidence or headline-ineligible countries to greyedOut[], but the rankable universe itself is fixed by the committed UN-member + SAR whitelist. It combines structural baseline indicators (governance quality, health infrastructure, fiscal capacity) with real-time stress signals (cyber threats, conflict events, shipping disruption) and recovery-capacity indicators (fiscal space, reserves, import concentration) to produce a single resilience score updated every 6 hours. Data is sourced from official and authoritative providers: World Bank, IMF, WHO, WTO, OFAC, UNHCR, UCDP, BIS, IEA, FAO, Reporters Sans Frontieres, and the Institute for Economics and Peace, among others.

Domains and Weights

The index is organized into 6 domains. Each domain weight reflects its design contribution to national resilience. Under the active pillar-combined formula, the weight sets that domain’s relative influence inside its pillar, scaled by the domain’s average dimension coverage. Under the legacy six-domain rollback formula, the same weights are used directly in the flat domain aggregate. Recovery carries the largest single-domain weight (0.25) because the ability to absorb and recover from a shock is the single best structural predictor of post-shock outcomes; this is why fiscally strong smaller states cluster at the top of the ranking and fragile states separate cleanly at the bottom.

Domain	ID	Weight	Dimensions
Economic	`economic`	0.17	Macro-Fiscal, Currency & External, Trade Policy, Financial System Exposure
Infrastructure	`infrastructure`	0.15	Cyber & Digital, Logistics & Supply, Infrastructure
Energy	`energy`	0.11	Energy
Social & Governance	`social-governance`	0.19	Governance, Social Cohesion, Conflict & Displacement, Information
Health & Food	`health-food`	0.13	Health & Public Service, Food & Water
Recovery	`recovery`	0.25	Fiscal Space, External Debt Coverage, Import Concentration, State Continuity, Liquid Reserve Adequacy, Sovereign Fiscal Buffer

Weights sum to 1.00. The authoritative values live in RESILIENCE_DOMAIN_WEIGHTS in server/worldmonitor/resilience/v1/_dimension-scorers.ts; if this table and the code disagree, the code wins. In the active pc formula, absolute top-level influence also depends on the outer pillar weights. The 6 domains are regrouped into 3 pillars (structural-readiness, live-shock-exposure, recovery-capacity) with weights 0.40 / 0.35 / 0.25 for the Phase 2 pillar-combined score. The pillar shape is emitted today on every response (schemaVersion="2.0", pillars[] populated with real domain-weighted, coverage-scaled scores). The top-level overallScore is computed by _shared.ts#penalizedPillarScore: the weighted pillar mean multiplied by the min-pillar penalty factor (1 - 0.5 * (1 - min_pillar / 100)).

Dimensions and Indicators

Each dimension is scored from 0-100 using a weighted blend of its sub-metrics. Below is the complete indicator registry.

Economic Domain (weight 0.17)

Macro-Fiscal

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
govRevenuePct	Government revenue as % of GDP (IMF GGR_G01_GDP_PT)	Higher is better	5 - 45	0.40	IMF	Annual
debtGrowthRate	Annual debt growth rate	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.20	National debt data	Annual
currentAccountPct	Current account balance as % of GDP (IMF)	Higher is better	-20 - 20	0.20	IMF	Annual
unemploymentPct	Unemployment rate (IMF WEO LUR)	Lower is better	25 - 3	0.15	IMF	Annual
householdDebtService	BIS household debt service ratio (% income)	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.05	BIS	Quarterly

Currency & External

PR 3 §3.5 point 2 retired the BIS-backed core construct. BIS REER and DSR cover only the 64 BIS-reporting economies, so the old composite fell through to curated_list_absent (coverage 0.3) or a thin IMF proxy (coverage 0.45) for roughly two-thirds of the 196-country public rankable universe. The rebuilt dimension uses two globally-covered World Bank / IMF series.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
inflationStability	Headline consumer inflation, % YoY (IMF WEO); primary signal for currency stability globally	1-3% target band is best	<= -5 or >= 50 -> 0; 1-3 -> 100	0.60	IMF	Annual
fxReservesAdequacy	Total reserves in months of imports (World Bank FI.RES.TOTL.MO)	Higher is better	1 - 12	0.40	World Bank	Annual

Coverage ladder (post-PR-3): both present → 0.85; inflation only → 0.55; reserves only → 0.40; neither → 0.30 (curated_list_absent imputation, subject to source-failure re-tagging on adapter outage). Retained as experimental (enrichment-only, ~64 BIS-reporting countries): fxVolatility (annualized BIS REER volatility, 50-0 goalpost) and fxDeviation (absolute deviation of BIS REER from 100, 35-0). These do not contribute to the core overall score; they surface on the country drill-down for BIS-tracked economies.

Trade Policy

Renamed from “Trade & Sanctions” in plan 2026-04-25-004 Phase 1 (Ship 1). The OFAC sanctionCount component (was weight 0.45) was dropped — counting designated-party domicile locations is a corporate-finance liability metric, not a country-resilience indicator (a transit-hub like UAE or Singapore hosts many shell-company entries without that reflecting on the host country’s structural resilience). The remaining 3 components were reweighted to total 1.0. A separate financialSystemExposure dim (plan Phase 2) will add structural sanctions exposure via BIS Locational Banking Statistics + WB IDS short-term external debt + FATF AML/CFT listing status. For the full construct rationale and the rejected alternatives (program- weight categorization, transit-hub exclusion lists), see known-limitations.md § tradeSanctions → tradePolicy.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
tradeRestrictions	WTO trade restriction severity from the current one-row-per-reporter seed (`low=0`, `moderate=1`, `high=2`; legacy no-status rows count as moderate)	Lower is better	2 - 0	0.30	WTO	Weekly
tradeBarriers	WTO tariff-gap barrier severity from the current one-row-per-reporter seed (`low=0`, `moderate=1`, `high=2`; legacy no-status rows count as moderate)	Lower is better	2 - 0	0.30	WTO	Weekly
appliedTariffRate	Applied tariff rate, weighted mean, all products (World Bank TM.TAX.MRCH.WM.AR.ZS)	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.40	World Bank	Annual

Tariff-overlap disclosure. tradePolicy is deliberately tariff-heavy after the WTO severity repair: tradeRestrictions now uses WTO MFN applied-tariff severity at weight 0.30, appliedTariffRate uses the World Bank weighted-mean applied tariff at weight 0.40, and tradeBarriers uses WTO tariff-gap severity at weight 0.30. The overlap is intentional because the dimension measures policy friction after the OFAC-domicile component was removed; future tariff-source changes should preserve this disclosure or split the construct explicitly.

Financial System Exposure

Added in plan 2026-04-25-004 Phase 2 (Ship 2). Replaces the dropped OFAC-domicile signal (Phase 1) with a structural-exposure construct built from audited cross-border banking + AML/CFT data. Where the OFAC count conflated transit-hub corporate domicile with host-country risk (penalizing financial centers like UAE / Singapore / Hong Kong for shell-entity behavior), this dimension uses sources that measure actual sovereign vulnerability: short-term external debt overhang, concentrated cross-border banking exposure, and AML/CFT compliance status. The dimension uses a fail-closed preflight pattern (mirrors scoreEnergy v2): all 3 required seed envelopes (economic:wb-external-debt:v1, economic:bis-lbs:v1, economic:fatf-listing:v1) MUST be reachable. Missing seed-meta indicates a Railway bundle outage and surfaces as imputationClass='source-failure' rather than silently zeroing the dim. Per-country data gaps are distinct: per-component reads return null and the slot drops out of the weighted blend.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
shortTermExternalDebtPctGni	Short-term external debt as % of GNI (WB IDS DT.DOD.DSTC.IR.ZS × DT.DOD.DECT.GN.ZS); IMF Article IV vulnerability threshold is 15% GNI	Lower is better	15 - 0	0.35	World Bank IDS	Annual
bisLbsXborderPctGdp	BIS LBS sum of by-parent cross-border claims (US/UK/major-EU/CH/JP/CA/AU/SG) as % of GDP; U-shape band — both isolation (under 5%) and over-exposure (above 60%) score low	Lower is better (U-shape)	60 - 25	0.30	BIS LBS	Quarterly
fatfListingStatus	FATF AML/CFT listing status — black list (call for action) → 0, gray list (increased monitoring) → 30, compliant → 100	Higher is better	0 - 100	0.20	FATF	Monthly
financialCenterRedundancy	Count of distinct BIS LBS by-parent reporters with non-trivial (>1% GDP) cross-border claims; rewards multi-counterparty financial centers, balances Component 2 over-exposure penalty	Higher is better	1 - 10	0.15	BIS LBS	Quarterly

Coverage: WB IDS publishes for ~125 LMICs only; HIC fall through to the BIS LBS structural-exposure component (which has ~200-country coverage). FATF + BIS LBS together cover effectively all manifest countries. Data sources and licensing: BIS data (Components 2 + 4) is published under BIS terms of use — publicly available with attribution; redistribution restricted. WB IDS (Component 1) and FATF (Component 3) are open-data. The BIS-derived indicators are tagged non-commercial / enrichment in the indicator registry per the existing BIS classification convention; the dimension itself is core (contributes to the headline score) per Codex R1 #8. For the full construct rationale, alternatives considered (program-weight categorization, transit-hub exclusion, single-dim formula rewrite, drop entirely), and the staged rollout decision, see financial-system-exposure.md.

Infrastructure Domain (weight 0.15)

Cyber & Digital

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
cyberThreats	Severity-weighted cyber threat count (critical 3x, high 2x, medium 1x, low 0.5x)	Lower is better	25 - 0	0.45	Cyber threat feeds	Daily
internetOutages	Internet outage penalty (total 4x, major 2x, partial 1x)	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.35	Outage monitoring	Realtime
gpsJamming	GPS jamming hex penalty (high 3x, medium 1x)	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.20	GPSJam	Daily

Logistics & Supply

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
roadsPavedLogistics	Paved roads as % of total road network (World Bank IS.ROD.PAVE.ZS)	Higher is better	0 - 100	0.50	World Bank	Annual
shippingStress	Global shipping stress score	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.25	Supply-chain monitor	Daily
transitDisruption	Mean transit corridor disruption	Lower is better	30 - 0	0.25	Transit summaries	Daily

v15 (2026-04-26) — small-state bias fix. The exposure-weighting formula shippingScore × tradeExposure + 100 × (1 − tradeExposure) intentionally suppresses global-stress penalties for closed economies (low trade-to-GDP), where tradeExposure = min(tradeToGdp / 50, 1.0); but the prior tradeExposure = 0.5 default for countries with NO observed trade-to-GDP extended that suppression to tiny states with no trade-to-GDP data at all (TV, PW, NR), inflating their shipping/transit components to ~75 in v14. v15 removes the 0.5 default: missing trade-to-GDP now drops the exposure-weighted components from the dimension entirely (coverage derate to 0.5) rather than imputing them at “average openness”. Closed economies WITH observed trade-to-GDP keep the neutralizer (Norway, Iceland, landlocked LICs continue to score correctly).

Infrastructure

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
electricityAccess	Access to electricity, % of population (World Bank EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS)	Higher is better	40 - 100	0.30	World Bank	Annual
roadsPavedInfra	Paved roads as % of total road network (World Bank IS.ROD.PAVE.ZS)	Higher is better	0 - 100	0.30	World Bank	Annual
infraOutages	Internet outage penalty (shared source with Cyber & Digital)	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.25	Outage monitoring	Realtime
broadband	Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people (World Bank IT.NET.BBND.P2)	Higher is better	0 - 40	0.15	World Bank	Annual

Note on the paved-roads indicator. The same World Bank series (IS.ROD.PAVE.ZS) feeds two dimensions inside the Infrastructure domain: roadsPavedLogistics under Logistics & Supply (weight 0.50 within the dimension) and roadsPavedInfra here under Infrastructure (weight 0.30 within the dimension). This is deliberate source reuse, not accidental double counting: Logistics & Supply uses paved-road coverage as a proxy for transit viability, while Infrastructure uses it as a proxy for baseline public capital stock. The two dimensions legitimately care about the same signal for different reasons, and each dimension’s contribution to the domain is further mediated by the dimension weight in coverage-weighted mean aggregation (see the Scoring Formula section). The v2.0 reference-grade upgrade plan is expected to consolidate shared upstream signals into a single indicator registry so this kind of reuse is documented at the source level rather than per-dimension; for v1.0 the two separate metric rows are preserved for backward compatibility.

Energy Domain (weight 0.11)

Energy

The energy dimension now uses the PR 1 v2 construct repair (plan §3.1-§3.3) in production. The v2 construct is the active runtime path when RESILIENCE_ENERGY_V2_ENABLED=true; the legacy construct remains available only as the emergency rollback path if that flag is set back to false. Active runtime state is reported as constructVersions.energy in /api/resilience/v1/get-runtime-manifest so production can be audited without exposing the raw env flag. The 2026-06-02 post-flip audit observed constructVersions.energy="v2" and /api/health green for all three v2 seed-meta entries. The indicator registry’s flat tier field follows this active production construct: v2 global inputs are Core, EU gas storage remains Enrichment because coverage is regional, and legacy-only standalone inputs are Experimental rollback surfaces. Legacy construct (rollback only). Carries three known wealth-proxy / denominator-mismatch flaws tracked in docs/methodology/indicator-sources.yaml and in “Known construct limitations” at the top of this page. It is retained to make rollback a flag change, not because it is the current methodology.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
energyImportDependency	IEA energy import dependency (% of supply from imports)	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.25	IEA	Annual
gasShare	Natural gas share of energy mix	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.12	Energy mix data	Annual
coalShare	Coal share of energy mix	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.08	Energy mix data	Annual
renewShare	Renewable energy share of energy mix	Higher is better	0 - 100	0.05	Energy mix data	Annual
euGasStorageStress (legacy name: `gasStorageStress`)	Gas storage fill stress: (80 - fillPct) / 80, clamped [0,1]	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.10	GIE AGSI+	Daily
energyPriceStress	Mean absolute energy price change across commodities	Lower is better	25 - 0	0.10	Energy prices	Daily
electricityConsumption	Per-capita electricity consumption (kWh/year, World Bank EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC)	Higher is better	200 - 8000	0.30	World Bank	Annual

v2 construct (active; framing decision: Option B, power-system security). Under v2 the dimension measures power-system security, not total-energy security. Electricity grids are the dominant short-horizon shock-transmission channel; transport-fuel security enters via fuelStockDays-successor work, and industrial energy security enters via transition-risk indicators on the economic domain. The framing choice is what lets the v2 indicator set share one denominator: percent of electricity generation, not percent of primary energy supply. Any future reversal to Option A (primary-energy framing) would require rebuilding lowCarbonGenerationShare and euGasStorageStress on IEA/BP primary-energy data — out of scope for PR 1.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
importedFossilDependence	`EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS × max(EG.IMP.CONS.ZS, 0) / 100`: fossil share of electricity × net-energy-import share, net exporters collapsed to 0; values above 100 clamp at the worst anchor	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.35	World Bank	Annual
lowCarbonGenerationShare	Nuclear + renewables-ex-hydro + hydroelectric share of electricity (`EG.ELC.NUCL.ZS + EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS + EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS`). Hydro summed separately because WB RNEW excludes it.	Higher is better	0 - 80	0.20	World Bank	Annual
powerLossesPct	Electric power transmission + distribution losses (`EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS`). Direct grid-integrity measure. Weight temporarily absorbs `reserveMarginPct`’s 0.10 until the latter’s IEA seeder lands.	Lower is better	25 - 3	0.20	World Bank	Annual
euGasStorageStress	Same transform as `gasStorageStress`, scoped to EU-only (weight 0 for non-EU)	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.10	GIE AGSI+	Daily
energyPriceStress	Mean absolute energy price change across commodities	Lower is better	25 - 0	0.15	Energy prices	Daily

Retired under v2: electricityConsumption (wealth proxy, §3.1 of repair plan), gasShare / coalShare / energyImportDependency (replaced by importedFossilDependence, §3.2), renewShare (absorbed into lowCarbonGenerationShare, §3.3). electricityAccess moves from energy to the infrastructure domain under v2, where it acts as a grid-collapse threshold signal rather than an affluence proxy. Deferred under v2 (plan §3.1 open-question): reserveMarginPct does not ship in PR 1. IEA electricity-balance coverage is sparse outside OECD+G20; the indicator will likely ship at tier='unmonitored' with weight 0.05 if it lands at all. Its Redis key is reserved in _dimension-scorers.ts; when a seeder lands, split 0.10 out of powerLossesPct and add reserveMarginPct at 0.10 in the scorer blend. Fail-closed semantics (plan 2026-04-24-001). When RESILIENCE_ENERGY_V2_ENABLED=true but any of the three required seeds (resilience:fossil-electricity-share:v1, resilience:low-carbon-generation:v1, resilience:power-losses:v1) is absent from Redis, the scorer throws ResilienceConfigurationError at dispatch rather than silently falling back to IMPUTE. The error is caught per-dimension in scoreAllDimensions and surfaces as imputationClass='source-failure' with coverage=0, visible in the widget and the API response. /api/health also reports CRIT on the three seed-meta:resilience:\{low-carbon-generation,fossil-electricity-share,power-losses\} entries when they are absent or stale. The flag is safe to keep on only while seed-bundle-resilience-energy-v2 remains provisioned on Railway and health stays green on all three. Rollback remains a single env-var change to RESILIENCE_ENERGY_V2_ENABLED=false; reactivation requires all three seed-meta entries to be green and a score-cache prefix bump if cached legacy scores may exist.

Governance

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
wgiVoiceAccountability	World Bank WGI: Voice and Accountability	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	1/6	World Bank WGI	Annual
wgiPoliticalStability	World Bank WGI: Political Stability	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	1/6	World Bank WGI	Annual
wgiGovernmentEffectiveness	World Bank WGI: Government Effectiveness	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	1/6	World Bank WGI	Annual
wgiRegulatoryQuality	World Bank WGI: Regulatory Quality	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	1/6	World Bank WGI	Annual
wgiRuleOfLaw	World Bank WGI: Rule of Law	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	1/6	World Bank WGI	Annual
wgiControlOfCorruption	World Bank WGI: Control of Corruption	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	1/6	World Bank WGI	Annual

All six WGI indicators are equally weighted.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
gpiScore	Global Peace Index score	Lower is better	3.6 - 1.0	0.55	IEP	Annual
displacementTotal	UNHCR total displaced persons (log10 scale)	Lower is better	7 - 0	0.25	UNHCR	Annual
unrestEvents	Severity-weighted unrest events + sqrt(fatalities), population-normalized per million with a 0.5M floor	Lower is better	10 - 0	0.20	Unrest monitoring	Realtime

v15 (2026-04-26) — gated GPI-only impute for sparse-data tiny states. When both displacement and unrest data were absent for a country (typical for tiny island states absent from UNHCR’s displacement registry), the dimension previously collapsed to GPI alone. Tiny peaceful states (TV, PW, NR with GPI ~1.3) rode this to a near-perfect ~93 dim score. v15 introduces a gated impute: when the country is absent from the displacement registry, displacement is imputed at 70/coverage 0.6 (stable-absence), while zero unrest events fall back to curated_list_absent at 50/coverage 0.3 (unmonitored) because the unrest feed is non-comprehensive. This pulls the blend down for tiny peaceful states without treating English-biased source absence as a strong stable-absence signal. Countries WITH observed displacement and zero unrest events keep the historical “stable-absence ≈ 85” anchor (matching IMPUTE.unhcrDisplacement), preserving Iceland/Norway scoring. Per-row imputation flags do not bubble up: dim-level imputationClass remains null because GPI is still observed. Seed-outage paths (raw payload absent) continue to drop the weight rather than imputing — the outage-vs-absence distinction is preserved.

Conflict & Displacement

This dimension measures armed-conflict event intensity and refugee displacement. It does not measure border-control infrastructure, customs throughput, or cross-border-crime enforcement. The internal identifier is borderSecurity for proto / cache-key stability; the relabeling is tracked in #3737.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
ucdpConflict	UCDP armed conflict: eventCount*2 + typeWeight + sqrt(deaths), population-normalized per million with a 0.5M floor	Lower is better	15 - 0	0.65	UCDP	Realtime
displacementHosted	UNHCR hosted displaced persons (log10 scale)	Lower is better	7 - 0	0.35	UNHCR	Annual

Information & Cognitive

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
rsfPressFreedom	RSF press freedom score	Lower is better	100 - 0	0.55	RSF	Annual
socialVelocity	Reddit social velocity (log10(velocity+1))	Lower is better	3 - 0	0.15	Reddit intelligence	Hourly relay (freshness budget: 180 min)
newsThreatScore	AI news threat severity (critical 4x, high 2x, medium 1x, low 0.5x)	Lower is better	20 - 0	0.30	News threat analysis	Daily

Health & Food Domain (weight 0.13)

Health & Public Service

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
uhcIndex	WHO Universal Health Coverage service coverage index	Higher is better	40 - 90	0.35	WHO	Annual
measlesCoverage	Measles immunization coverage among 1-year-olds (%)	Higher is better	50 - 99	0.25	WHO	Annual
hospitalBeds	Hospital beds per 1,000 people	Higher is better	0 - 8	0.10	WHO	Annual
physiciansPer1k	Physicians per 1,000 people	Higher is better	0 - 5	0.15	WHO	Annual
healthExpPerCapitaUsd	Current health expenditure per capita, USD	Higher is better	20 - 3000	0.15	WHO	Annual

Food & Water

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
ipcPeopleInCrisis	IPC/FAO people in food crisis (log10 scale)	Lower is better	7 - 0	0.45	FAO/IPC	Annual
ipcPhase	IPC food crisis phase (1-5)	Lower is better	5 - 1	0.15	FAO/IPC	Annual
aquastatScore	FAO AQUASTAT value scored from its indicator tag: stress/withdrawal/dependency readings are lower-better; availability/renewable/access readings are higher-better	Indicator semantics	Indicator-dependent	0.40	FAO AQUASTAT	Annual

Recovery Domain (weight 0.25)

This domain forms the recovery-capacity pillar. It measures a country’s ability to bounce back from an acute shock along fiscal, monetary, trade, institutional, and energy dimensions. Per-dimension weights in the recovery domain (PR 2 §3.4). Four core recovery dimensions (fiscalSpace, externalDebtCoverage, importConcentration, stateContinuity) carry the default weight 1.0. The two PR 2 §3.4 replacements for the retired reserveAdequacy carry weight 0.5 each:

Dimension	Weight	Share at full coverage
fiscalSpace	1.0	20%
externalDebtCoverage	1.0	20%
importConcentration	1.0	20%
stateContinuity	1.0	20%
liquidReserveAdequacy	0.5	10%
sovereignFiscalBuffer	0.5	10%

The 0.5 weight on the two new dims caps their combined contribution to the recovery score at ~20%, matching the plan’s direction that the sovereign-wealth signal complement — rather than dominate — the classical liquid-reserves and fiscal-space signals. The weights are applied via RESILIENCE_DIMENSION_WEIGHTS in server/worldmonitor/resilience/v1/_dimension-scorers.ts; coverageWeightedMean in _shared.ts multiplies each dim’s coverage by its weight before computing the domain average, so a dim with coverage=0 (retirement) still contributes zero regardless of weight.

Fiscal Space

The first three indicators measure the state of public finances; the fourth — debtSustainabilityGap — measures the trajectory. The gap is the standard IMF DSA construct (used by Article IV missions, ECB MIP scoreboard, and S&P sovereign methodology):

g    = (1 + realGdpGrowth/100) × (1 + cpiInflation/100) − 1
r    = max(0, (primaryBalance − fiscalBalance) / debtToGdp)
pb*  = ((r − g) / (1 + g)) × debtToGdp
gap  = primaryBalance − pb*       (positive ⇒ debt path declining)

The gap is computed at seed time and stored as debtSustainabilityGapPct in the canonical fiscal-space blob, so the scorer just normalizes. Inputs are year-aligned via latestCommonYear across the 5 formula series (debt, balance, primary balance, real growth, inflation); year-mismatched countries get gap=null and the scorer’s weightedBlend redistributes weight across the remaining 3 indicators. The inflation cap (CPI > 10%) drops gap to null for inflation-tax-regime countries (Argentina, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia, etc.) — above ~10% inflation the formula’s nominal-growth term mechanically erodes debt while masking underlying fiscal pathology, and the IMF DSA framework itself only treats sustainability as meaningful below this threshold. Realistic joint coverage is ~140 countries (down from 190 nominal) because of the year-alignment + cap interaction.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryGovRevenue	Government revenue as % of GDP (IMF GGR_G01_GDP_PT)	Higher is better	5 - 45	0.25	IMF	Annual
recoveryFiscalBalance	General government net lending/borrowing as % of GDP (IMF GGXCNL_G01_GDP_PT)	Higher is better	-15 - 5	0.20	IMF	Annual
recoveryDebtToGdp	General government gross debt as % of GDP (IMF GGXWDG_NGDP_PT)	Lower is better	150 - 0	0.20	IMF	Annual
debtSustainabilityGap	Primary-balance gap to debt-stabilizing level (IMF DSA construct); see formula above. Dropped to null when CPI > 10% to avoid inflation-tax masking.	Higher is better	-5 - 3	0.35	IMF (5 series: GGXONLB_NGDP, GGXCNL_NGDP, GGXWDG_NGDP, NGDP_RPCH, PCPIPCH)	Annual

Reserve Adequacy

PR 2 §3.4 retired reserveAdequacy from the core overall score. The dimension remains registered for schema continuity but pins at coverage=0, score=50, imputationClass=null for every country (same shape as the PR 3 fuelStockDays retirement — the null tag avoids a false “Source down” label in the widget for a deliberate construct retirement). The construct split into two dimensions that separate the liquid-reserves signal from the sovereign-wealth signal: liquidReserveAdequacy (below) and sovereignFiscalBuffer (below). See the v2.3 changelog entry for the rationale.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryReserveMonths	Total reserves in months of imports (World Bank FI.RES.TOTL.MO) — experimental tier, not part of core score	Higher is better	1 - 18	1.00	World Bank	Annual

Liquid Reserve Adequacy

PR 2 §3.4 replacement for the liquid-reserves half of the retired reserveAdequacy. Same upstream source (World Bank FI.RES.TOTL.MO, total reserves in months of imports) but re-anchored 1..12 months instead of 1..18. Twelve months is the ballpark IMF “full reserve adequacy” benchmark for a diversified emerging-market importer; the tighter ceiling prevents wealthy commodity-exporters from claiming outsized credit for on-paper reserve stocks that are not the relevant shock-absorption buffer. The sovereign-wealth half of the split lives in sovereignFiscalBuffer below.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryLiquidReserveMonths	Total reserves in months of imports (World Bank FI.RES.TOTL.MO), re-anchored 1..12	Higher is better	1 - 12	1.00	World Bank	Annual

Sovereign Fiscal Buffer

PR 2 §3.4 new dimension. Measures the per-country deployable fiscal buffer from sovereign wealth fund assets, discounted by a three-component haircut (access × liquidity × transparency) per published fund governance. The composite is:

effectiveMonths = Σ [ (aum / annualImports × 12) × access × liquidity × transparency ]
score           = 100 × (1 − exp(−effectiveMonths / 12))

The exponential saturation prevents Norway-type outliers (effective months in the 100s) from dominating the recovery pillar out of proportion to their marginal resilience benefit.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoverySovereignWealthEffectiveMonths	Haircut-weighted sovereign-wealth assets in months of imports, saturating	Higher is better	0 - 60	1.00	Wikipedia SWF list + per-fund articles (CC-BY-SA), haircut by swf-classification-manifest.yaml	Quarterly

v15 (2026-04-26) — construct reframing for non-SWF countries. The original PR 2 §3.4 construct treated countries not in the SWF manifest (scripts/shared/swf-classification-manifest.yaml) as substantive absence: score=0, coverage=1.0 — a deliberate penalty meant to lower their recovery-pillar score relative to SWF-holding peers. Empirically this over-fired for advanced economies (DE, JP, FR, IT, UK, US, NL, AT, BE, ES, PT) that hold reserves through Treasury / central-bank channels rather than dedicated sovereign-wealth funds, dragging their recovery-pillar coverage and ranking artificially low. v15 reframes Path 3 from substantive absence (score=0, coverage=1.0) to dim-not-applicable (score=0, coverage=0). The score field stays numeric (zero) per the ResilienceDimensionScore.score: number contract; the coverage:0 is what causes the dim to contribute nothing to the coverage-weighted recovery-domain mean. The recovery domain re-normalizes around the OTHER recovery dims for non-SWF countries, which continue to score them via their own data sources (liquidReserveAdequacy, externalDebtCoverage, importConcentration, fiscalSpace, etc.). No double-counting of reserves. User-facing widget signals (computeLowConfidence, computeOverallCoverage) also exclude this dim when its coverage is 0 — same pattern as RESILIENCE_RETIRED_DIMENSIONS, but gated to the country level rather than the construct level via RESILIENCE_NOT_APPLICABLE_WHEN_ZERO_COVERAGE. Countries WITH SWFs in the manifest still score normally with positive coverage; the dim continues to differentiate Norway / Kuwait / Singapore / UAE from each other based on effectiveMonths.

External Debt Coverage

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryDebtToReserves	Short-term external debt to reserves ratio (World Bank DT.DOD.DSTC.CD / FI.RES.TOTL.CD); anchored on Greenspan-Guidotti reserve-adequacy rule	Lower is better	2 - 0	1.00	World Bank	Annual

Import Concentration

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryImportHhi	Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of import partner concentration (UN Comtrade HS2 bilateral)	Lower is better	5000 - 0	1.00	UN Comtrade	Annual

State Continuity

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryWgiContinuity	Mean WGI score as institutional durability proxy	Higher is better	-2.5 - 2.5	0.50	World Bank	Annual
recoveryConflictPressure	UCDP conflict metric inverted to state continuity	Lower is better	30 - 0	0.30	UCDP	Realtime
recoveryDisplacementVelocity	UNHCR displacement as state continuity signal	Lower is better	7 - 0	0.20	UNHCR	Annual

State continuity is a derived dimension: it reads from existing WGI, UCDP, and displacement keys rather than a dedicated seeder.

Fuel Stock Days

PR 3 §3.5 point 1 permanently retired fuelStockDays from the core overall score. The dimension remains registered for schema continuity but pins at coverage=0, score=50, imputationClass=null for every country. Domain averages skip it via the coverage-weighted mean (coverage=0 contributes zero weight), and the user-facing confidence / coverage-percent averages exclude it via the RESILIENCE_RETIRED_DIMENSIONS registry filter in computeLowConfidence, computeOverallCoverage, and the widget’s formatResilienceConfidence. imputationClass is deliberately null rather than source-failure — a retirement is structural, not a runtime outage, and the widget maps source-failure to a “Source down: upstream seeder failed” label with a ! icon which would manufacture a false outage signal for every country on a deliberate construct retirement. Why retired: fuel-stock disclosure is an IEA/OECD-member obligation covering ~45 countries. Every non-member was imputed via unmonitored (score 50, coverage 0.30). Combined with its 1/6 share of the recovery domain, this was the single largest “construct-absent-for-most-of-the-world” carrier in the scorer — the primary reason UAE landed at rank 69 with energy=53, reserveAdequacy=25, fuelStockDays=50/unmonitored in the pre-repair audit.

Indicator	Description	Direction	Goalposts (worst-best)	Weight	Source	Cadence
recoveryFuelStockDays	Days of fuel stock cover (IEA Oil Stocks / EIA Weekly Petroleum Status) — experimental tier, not part of core score	Higher is better	0 - 120	1.00	IEA/EIA	Monthly

The seeder still runs on its weekly schedule so the data surfaces on IEA/OECD-member country drill-downs. It stays retired from the core score unless a globally-comparable concept (strategic-reserve disclosure mandated across >180 countries) emerges.

Normalization

All indicators are normalized to a 0-100 scale using goalpost scaling (also called min-max normalization with domain-specific anchors). For “higher is better” indicators:

score = clamp((value - worst) / (best - worst) * 100, 0, 100)

For “lower is better” indicators:

score = clamp((worst - value) / (worst - best) * 100, 0, 100)

Goalposts are hand-picked based on empirical data ranges (not percentile-derived). A score of 100 means the country meets or exceeds the “best” goalpost; 0 means it meets or exceeds the “worst” goalpost. Exceptions: A few live indicators are explicitly non-linear and are tagged as such in the indicator registry: inflationStability uses a 1-3% target band with deflation and high-inflation zero-score anchors, bisLbsXborderPctGdp uses a U-shaped band, fatfListingStatus is categorical, and recoverySovereignWealthEffectiveMonths uses a saturating transform. Their goalposts are documentation anchors, not generic linear normalizer inputs.

Scoring Formula

Dimension Score

Each dimension score is the weighted blend of its sub-metric scores:

dimensionScore = sum(metricScore_i * metricWeight_i) / sum(metricWeight_i)

Only metrics with available data participate in the blend. Missing metrics are excluded from both the numerator and denominator, so the score reflects what is known rather than penalizing for absent data.

Domain Score

Each domain score is the coverage-weighted mean of its dimensions:

domainScore = sum(dimensionScore_i * dimensionCoverage_i) / sum(dimensionCoverage_i)

Coverage weighting ensures that dimensions with sparse data (low coverage) contribute proportionally less, preventing a low-coverage dimension from dragging the domain average down.

Overall Score

The currently active overall score is the pillar-combined penalized score:

weightedPillarMean = sum(pillarScore_i * pillarWeight_i)
penalty = 1 - 0.5 * (1 - minPillarScore / 100)
overallScore = weightedPillarMean * penalty

Domain scores are first regrouped into the three pillars (structural-readiness, live-shock-exposure, and recovery-capacity). Inside each pillar, member domains are averaged by domainWeight_i * averageDimensionCoverage_i, preserving the coverage signal while honoring the published domain design weights. The three pillar scores are then combined with pillar weights 0.40 / 0.35 / 0.25. The penalty term is anchored to the weakest pillar, so an otherwise strong country cannot fully compensate for a severe weakness in one pillar. The legacy six-domain weighted aggregate remains the rollback formula when RESILIENCE_PILLAR_COMBINE_ENABLED=false; an earlier multiplicative form (baseline * (1 - stressFactor)) over-penalized every country and was reverted. See the Changelog for the full version history.

Resilience Level Classification

Score Range	Level
60-100	High
30-59	Medium
0-29	Low

The legacy six-domain rollback formula uses the older 70/40 cutoffs. The active pillar-combined formula uses the 60/30 cutoffs above to keep qualitative labels aligned after the score scale compression introduced by the min-pillar penalty.

Missing Data Handling

Coverage Tracking

Each dimension carries a coverage value (0.0-1.0) representing the weighted certainty of its data. Real observed data contributes certainty 1.0. Imputed data contributes partial certainty. Absent data contributes 0.

coverage = sum(metricWeight_i * certainty_i) / sum(metricWeight_i)

Imputation Taxonomy

When data is absent, the system tags it with one of four classes so downstream consumers can distinguish “nothing is happening” from “we do not know” from “the upstream is down” from “the dimension does not apply to this country.” The taxonomy is defined in server/worldmonitor/resilience/v1/_dimension-scorers.ts as an exported ImputationClass type.

Class	Meaning	Typical score	Certainty	Example sources
`stable-absence`	The source publishes globally. Country is not listed, which means the tracked phenomenon is not happening. Strong positive signal.	85 to 88	0.6 to 0.7	IPC food crisis, UNHCR displacement, UCDP conflict events
`unmonitored`	The source is a curated list that may not cover every country. Absence is ambiguous; penalized conservatively.	50 to 60	0.3 to 0.4	BIS exchange rates and credit, WTO trade data, OECD ICU capacity
`source-failure`	The upstream API was unavailable at seed time. Detected from `seed-meta` `failedDatasets`. Should be rare and transient.	inherits from the source being substituted	0.3 to 0.5	any source listed in `failedDatasets` during a seed run
`not-applicable`	The dimension is structurally N/A for this country (the construct does not apply). The scorer emits `score=0, coverage=0, observedWeight=0, imputedWeight=0` so the dim contributes zero weight to the domain coverage-weighted mean and is filtered from user-facing low-confidence and overall-coverage signals on both server and client. The dim is excluded ONLY when it appears in `RESILIENCE_NOT_APPLICABLE_WHEN_ZERO_COVERAGE` AND the triple-zero Path-3 fingerprint matches; a real data outage on a country that DOES carry the construct (`coverage=0` with `observedWeight>0`) still drags confidence so an operator notices.	0 (by definition)	0 (by definition)	`sovereignFiscalBuffer` for non-SWF countries (plan 2026-04-26-001 §U3 + review fixup)

The generic imputation entries are declared in the IMPUTATION table and shared across dimensions. Per-metric overrides live in the IMPUTE table with their own score and certainty values, and inherit or override the class tag. Every entry is regression-tested in tests/resilience-dimension-scorers.test.mts to prevent silent drift.

Concrete imputation entry	Class	Score	Certainty	Notes
`crisis_monitoring_absent` (IPC, UCDP, UNHCR general)	`stable-absence`	85	0.7	Used when the global crisis feed has no entry for the country
`curated_list_absent` (BIS, WTO general)	`unmonitored`	50	0.3	Used when a curated list does not cover the country
`ipcFood` (food-specific crisis monitoring)	`stable-absence`	88	0.7	Slightly higher score because no IPC data strongly implies food security
`wtoData` (trade-specific curated list)	`unmonitored`	60	0.4	Slightly higher than the generic curated list default
`unhcrDisplacement` (displacement-specific crisis monitoring)	`stable-absence`	85	0.6	Lower certainty than IPC because displacement is noisier
`bisEer` and `bisCredit`	`unmonitored`	50	0.3	Shared reference to `curated_list_absent`; same tag
Runtime `failedDatasets` re-tag	`source-failure`	preserves substituted score	preserves substituted certainty	Applied at score aggregation time when `seed-meta:resilience:static.failedDatasets` lists the adapter behind an otherwise-imputed dimension

The source-failure class is applied by the runtime scoring path: the aggregation pass reads seed-meta:resilience:static.failedDatasets through _source-failure.ts and re-tags affected imputed dimensions as source-failure when the underlying seed adapter failed. This keeps a country-level absence signal distinct from an upstream-source outage. The not-applicable class is emitted by scoreSovereignFiscalBuffer Path 3 (plan 2026-04-26-001 §U3 + review fixup): when the SWF manifest payload is present but the country is absent from it, the scorer returns score=0, coverage=0, observedWeight=0, imputedWeight=0, imputationClass='not-applicable'. The RESILIENCE_NOT_APPLICABLE_WHEN_ZERO_COVERAGE set in _dimension-scorers.ts enumerates which dimensions can emit this class, and isExcludedFromConfidenceMean is the single-source helper used by both server-side coverage means and the client widget — keeping cross-surface filter parity (server overallCoverage and widget “Coverage X% ✓” string match for non-SWF advanced economies). New dimensions that need structural N/A handling can opt in by adding their id to RESILIENCE_NOT_APPLICABLE_WHEN_ZERO_COVERAGE and following the 6-site lockstep recipe documented in the project memory.

Low Confidence Flag

A score is flagged as lowConfidence when either:

Average dimension coverage falls below 0.55, or
Imputation share (imputed weight / total weight) exceeds 0.40.

Grey-Out Threshold

Countries with overall coverage below 0.40 are greyed out in the UI and excluded from rankings. Their scores are too data-sparse to be meaningful. The API response includes imputationShare (0.0-1.0), representing the fraction of total indicator weight that came from imputed (synthetic) data rather than observed data. This allows consumers to assess data provenance.

Data Sources

Source	Indicators	Cadence	Scope
IMF (WEO/IFS)	Government revenue, current account, inflation	Annual	Global
World Bank (WDI)	Electricity access, paved roads, reserves, tariffs, electricity consumption	Annual	Global
World Bank (WGI)	6 governance indicators	Annual	Global
BIS	Real effective exchange rates	Monthly	~60 countries
OFAC	Sanctions entity counts	Daily	Global
WTO	Trade restrictions, trade barriers	Weekly	~50 reporters
WHO	UHC index, measles coverage, hospital beds	Annual	Global
FAO (IPC)	People in food crisis, crisis phase	Annual	Affected countries
FAO (AQUASTAT)	Water stress, water availability	Annual	Global
IEA	Energy import dependency	Annual	Global
IEP	Global Peace Index	Annual	Global
RSF	Press freedom score	Annual	Global
UNHCR	Displaced persons, hosted refugees	Annual	Affected countries
UCDP	Armed conflict events, fatalities	Realtime	Global
Cyber threat feeds	Severity-weighted cyber threats	Daily	Global
Outage monitoring	Internet outages	Realtime	Global
GPSJam	GPS jamming incidents	Daily	Global
Supply-chain monitor	Shipping stress, transit disruption	Daily	Global
Unrest monitoring	Severity-weighted civil unrest events	Realtime	Global
Reddit intelligence	Social velocity scores	Hourly relay (freshness budget: 180 min)	Global
News threat analysis	AI-scored news threat severity	Daily	Global
Energy mix data	Gas, coal, renewable shares	Annual	Global
GIE AGSI+	Gas storage fill levels	Daily	European countries
Energy prices	Commodity price changes	Daily	Global
National debt data	Debt-to-GDP growth rate	Annual	Global

Supplementary Fields

The API response includes additional context fields that are informational and not part of the primary ranking:

baselineScore: Coverage-weighted mean of baseline and mixed dimensions. Reflects structural capacity (governance, health, infrastructure, fiscal strength). Informational only, not used in overallScore.
stressScore: Coverage-weighted mean of stress and mixed dimensions. Reflects current threat environment (cyber, conflict, sanctions, supply disruption). Informational only, not used in overallScore.
trend: Direction of score movement over the last 30 days (rising, stable, or falling), based on daily score history.
change30d: Numeric score change over 30 days.
imputationShare: Fraction of indicator weight from imputed (synthetic) data.
lowConfidence: Boolean flag when data coverage or imputation thresholds are breached.

Versioning

Cache keys include a versioned suffix that is bumped on formula changes. This invalidates stale caches and ensures all scores reflect the updated methodology. Score cache TTL is 6 hours.

Reproducibility Appendix

The CRI is designed to be auditable end-to-end: given the Redis snapshot at any point in time, a reader should be able to reproduce any published country score from the documented formulas without running the live service.

Redis keys used by the scorer

Key	Type	TTL	Written by	Read by
`resilience:score:v24:{countryCode}`	JSON	6 hours	`buildResilienceScore` in `server/worldmonitor/resilience/v1/_shared.ts`	`getResilienceScore` handler
`resilience:ranking:v24`	JSON	12 hours	`getResilienceRanking` warm path, only when at least 90% of countries are scored (`RANKING_CACHE_MIN_COVERAGE = 0.90`)	`getResilienceRanking` handler
`resilience:history:v19:{countryCode}`	sorted set	indefinite, trimmed to 30 days	`appendHistory` during scoring	trend and `change30d` computation
`resilience:intervals:v8:{countryCode}`	JSON	7 days; freshness monitored via `seed-meta`/health cadence	`scripts/seed-resilience-scores.mjs`	`getResilienceScore` (optional `scoreInterval` field) and `getResilienceRanking` (`rankStable`)
`seed-meta:resilience:static`	JSON	400 days	`scripts/seed-resilience-static.mjs` at the end of each successful seed run	scorer for `dataVersion` population, health checks
`resilience:static:{countryCode}`	JSON	400 days	`scripts/seed-resilience-static.mjs`	scorer for all baseline signals (WGI, WHO, FAO, GPI, RSF, and so on)
`resilience:static:index:v1`	JSON	400 days	`scripts/seed-resilience-static.mjs`	warmup path to enumerate countries

The public runtime manifest intentionally does not echo these Redis key names. Its intervals object reports a derived availability check using a fixed public sample country, the current interval methodology tag, and the latest safe observed timestamp from interval freshness metadata or the sample interval payload. If interval data is missing, stale for the active formula, or produced by a different methodology, intervals.available is false instead of throwing; this is the public audit signal that user-facing scoreInterval and rankStable support is not currently backed by readable interval data.

dataVersion semantics

The dataVersion field on every GetResilienceScoreResponse is the ISO date of the fetchedAt timestamp stored in seed-meta:resilience:static. It reflects the most recent successful run of the Railway static-seed job; the widget renders it in the footer as Seed date YYYY-MM-DD. The label is narrower than “Data” because live inputs (conflict events, sanctions, prices) can refresh at their own cadence after the static bundle runs — per-dimension freshness is surfaced separately via the freshness badge in the confidence grid.

Reproducing a score by hand

Given a Redis snapshot at time T:

Read seed-meta:resilience:static for the dataVersion.
Read resilience:static:{cc} for the country’s baseline record (WGI, WHO, GPI, RSF, FAO, IEA, and so on).
Read the live-signal keys (UCDP, UNHCR, OFAC, outages, cyber threats, prices, shipping stress, and so on) for the country’s slice.
For each of the 20 active dimensions, apply the formulas in the Scoring Formula section with the goalposts from the Dimensions and Indicators tables. For missing signals, consult the Imputation Taxonomy table in this document.
Aggregate dimension scores into domain scores via coverage-weighted mean.
Aggregate domain scores into the three pillar scores using domainWeight * averageDimensionCoverage as each member domain’s pillar-score influence, then compute the overall score with the pillar-combined penalized formula used by the production pc cache tag.

The reference-edition bundle under docs/methodology/country-resilience-index/reference-edition/2026/ includes a frozen country-sliced Redis input manifest, the production score-cache values used as the published baseline, and a deterministic recompute script for the sampled published score run. The manifest records which large global feeds were pruned to the sampled countries so the artifact remains auditable without committing full live-event dumps.

Changelog

v17 (April 2026) — universe + coverage rebuild (plan 2026-04-26-002)

Current published shape. Eight-PR sequence (PRs #3425, #3426, #3427, #3432, #3452, #3457, #3469, #3472, #3477) addressing the small-state inflation defect that surfaced after PR #3427’s cohort dry-run: the high-income-country (HIC) cohort dropped on rank as designed (FR -33, SG -30, JP -23, AE -18, US -16, DE -13), but the tiny-state cohort still climbed (TV +6, PW +7, NR +22, MC +22). The rebuild attacks the structural cause: the index was treating microstates with thin data the same way it treated countries with full coverage. The five mechanisms now in the score:

Source-comprehensiveness flag (PR #3452, §U5). 19 indicators are tagged comprehensive: false because their absence does not imply “nothing is happening” — event-only feeds (UCDP, IPC, OFAC, GPS jamming, internet outages), curated lists with partial coverage (BIS-64, WTO top-50, FATF), and bilateral-only series. For these, IMPUTE swaps from the optimistic stable-absence (85, certainty 0.6) to the conservative unmonitored (50, certainty 0.3). Microstates that previously rode an “absence is good news” assumption no longer get the free lift.
Coverage penalty multiplier (PR #3452, §U4). Imputed indicators carry a 0.5× weight in the dimension blend. The dimension still scores, the imputed value still influences the result, but it does so at half-strength. Combined with the comprehensiveness flag this means a country whose dimension is entirely curated-list-absent contributes weight 0.15 (0.3 × 0.5) instead of weight 1.0 — the dim is functionally informational, not load-bearing.
Per-capita normalization with 0.5M tiny-state floor (PR #3452, §U6). unrestEvents and ucdpConflict divide by max(populationMillions, 0.5). Tiny states with absolute event counts of zero used to score the same as large states with zero events; now the per-capita event rate is what enters normalization, and the floor caps the divisor so a country at 0.05M doesn’t get a 200× artificial boost. UNHCR displacementTotal and displacementHosted are still scored on log10 absolute displaced-person counts, not population-normalized rates. The IMF labor seeder writes population to the static record (PR #3452 review-round-1 fix corrected a 1e6× units bug — the field is populationMillions but the upstream IMF LP series is in raw persons; fixed in commit 724dd4e95).
Headline-eligible gate (PR #3469, §U7). A country is headlineEligible: true only if overallCoverage >= 0.65 AND (populationMillions >= 0.2 OR overallCoverage >= 0.85) AND !lowConfidence. Ineligible countries surface in greyedOut[] (still served via the raw API for analysts who want them) but are excluded from the public ranking. This is the single change that solved the inflation defect end-to-end: the previously-inflated PW, NR, AD, FM, KI, GD, GQ, ER cohort is now routed by the headline-eligible gate instead of being described as part of the headline ranking.
Symmetric gate filtering at the cache-hit path (PRs #3472, #3477, §U7 follow-up). The gate had to be the single source of truth on every code path that returns a ranking, including the read-time path that hits cache. PR #3472 wired the gate into the cache-hit branch (the recompute path already filtered correctly); PR #3477 made it bidirectional (cached greyedOut[] entries with headlineEligible: true get promoted to items[] on read) and re-sorted post-promotion so a high-score promoted item lands at its correct rank, not appended at the end.

Cache prefix bumps. resilience:score:v15: → :v16: → :v17: → :v18: → :v19: → :v20: → :v21: → :v22: → :v23: → :v24:; resilience:ranking:v15 → v16 → v17 → v18 → v19 → v20 → v21 → v22 → v23 → v24; resilience:history:v10: → :v11: → :v12: → :v13: → :v14: → :v15: → :v16: → :v17: → :v18: → :v19:. The v17 bump shipped with the headline-eligible gate (PR #3469) because headlineEligible became a required field; cached v16 entries omitted it, and the conservative defensive default at v17 is headlineEligible: false (anomalous-missing → demoted) to match v17’s “every legitimate writer stamps the field” contract. The v18 bump shipped with §U8.1 (net-imports denominator extended to liquidReserveAdequacy), v19 with the cyberDigital per-snapshot cap, v20 is reserved for the staleness-derate rollout, v21 ships the P1-1 pillar aggregation fix that applies domain design weights inside the active pc formula, v22 ships the round-2 inflation-stability and NaN-safe blend fixes, v23 ships the import-HHI stale/missing source-year certainty derate, the P3-8 outage-feed observed-quiet semantics, and the WTO trade-policy severity scorer fix (all batched into the same generation), and v24 ships the round-5 R5-2 / PR #4101 governance WGI indicator-slot semantics fix. The interval cache is also rotated to resilience:intervals:v8: so old sensitivity bands are not served alongside v24 scores. Empirical anchor (live resilience:ranking:v17 captured 2026-04-28, post-#3477 merge):

Plan-002 anti-inversion target	v17 result	Status
`median(Nordics) >= median(GCC) − 5pt`	gap = +7.98 (Nordics 78.52, GCC 70.53)	PASS
`min(G7) >= max(LIC) − 10pt`	gap = +10.58 (CA 64.31, max-LIC 53.73)	PASS
`count(microstate in top 20) <= 1`	1 (MO Macao at #4 — wealthy financial-hub case)	PASS
`median(G7) > median(microstate) + 15pt`	gap = -3.87 (G7 69.47, micro 73.34, n=2)	margin — only 2 microstates pass §U7 (MO + 1), and they’re high-coverage hubs; the 11 demoted microstates are in `greyedOut[]` exactly as designed

The “margin” miss on the fourth target is a measurement artifact of the gate working: the original target was calibrated against the full 13-state microstate cohort, but §U7 routes 11 of those 13 to greyedOut[] because they fail the coverage / population thresholds. The 2 microstates that pass (MO + IS) are exemplars, not the inflated cases. The defect the plan was scoped to fix — PW/NR/TV/AD class climbing into the top 30 — is solved. Top-20 cohort makeup at v17 publish: 5 Nordics in top 12 (NO #2, IS #3, DK #5, SE #7, FI #12), 3 GCC in top 17 (KW #6, QA #10, AE #17), one wealthy microstate (MO #4), the rest distributed as expected (CH #1, UY #8, AT #9, NZ #11, LU #13, JP #14 — the only G7 in the top 20, PT #15, SR #16, CZ #18, WS #19, SI #20). v17.1 — Net-imports denominator parity for liquidReserveAdequacy (U8.1). PR #3380 (Apr 24) shipped re-export-adjusted denominators for sovereignFiscalBuffer via the SWF seeder’s computeNetImports(grossImports, reexportShareOfImports) = grossImports × (1 − reexportShare) helper, sourced from resilience:recovery:reexport-share:v1 (Comtrade-backed, PR #3385). The same correction was structurally needed on the sibling liquidReserveAdequacy dimension — a re-export hub that consumes World Bank FI.RES.TOTL.MO (reserves in months of imports) gets penalized for goods that flow through its territory without settling as domestic consumption, artificially shortening the implied buffer runway. v17.1 extends the fix to liquidReserveAdequacy at score time (no seeder change): the scorer reads the existing resilience:recovery:reexport-share:v1 map and multiplies WB’s pre-computed months by 1 / (1 − reexportShare) for hub countries (today: AE at 35.5% share, PA similar). This is the algebraic inverse of dividing the denominator by (1 − share) — yields the same adjusted-months a custom reserves / (net-imports / 12) calc would produce, without re-fetching raw FI.RES.TOTL.CD + BM.GSR.GNFS.CD series. Non-hub countries (no entry in the reexport-share map) keep the raw WB value — status-quo behaviour preserved. The fix ships with a cache-prefix bump (v17 → v18 for both resilience:score: and resilience:ranking:, plus v12 → v13 for resilience:history:). The _formula tag in cache payloads is binary 'd6' | 'pc' and does NOT detect intra-d6 scorer changes, so without the prefix bump cached v17 AE/PA scores (gross-imports-denominated) would continue to serve until TTL expiry post-deploy, defeating the construct fix. History bumps in lockstep so the rolling 30-day window doesn’t mix pre-fix and post-fix points and manufacture a false “improving” trend on day one. Same pattern as PR 3A’s v11 → v12 lockstep when the SWF-side fix landed. Expected impact at next ranking refresh (within the 6h cache TTL after deploy): AE liquidReserveAdequacy ≈ 38 → ≈ 64 (a +26-point dim swing); PA similar magnitude. Trend metric will show a one-time step at deploy time for these two countries; this is the corrected baseline going forward. v17.2 — cyberDigital per-snapshot burst cap (#3971). The scorer caps each country’s total severity-weighted cyber-threat count at 8 per snapshot before applying the existing normalizeLowerBetter(weightedCount, 0, 25) transform, so a same-day spike in cyber:threats:v2 can no longer saturate the cyber sub-component to 0 and swing a country 5+ rank positions. This is deliberately a per-snapshot cap, not multi-day smoothing: the live feed stamps lastSeenAt at ~fetch time and never populates firstSeenAt (verified live, 2026-06-01: 0/958 records carry a non-zero firstSeenAt, and every country’s lastSeenAt resolves to a single day), so the feed exposes no cross-day spread for the scorer to average over. Distinguishing a transient burst from sustained multi-day pressure would require cross-snapshot state (see the cyberDigital caveat below) and is not claimed here. The fix ships with a cache-prefix bump (v18 → v19 for both resilience:score: and resilience:ranking:, plus v13 → v14 for resilience:history:) so cached uncapped scores and 30-day trend points do not mix with capped scores. v17.3 — stale observed data derates confidence coverage (P1-3). Freshness is no longer observability-only for confidence semantics: observed dimensions marked aging or stale reduce confidence coverage for lowConfidence, overallCoverage, and headline eligibility, while the score aggregation weights remain unchanged. Expected impact at the next ranking refresh is limited to confidence badges and headline eligibility during source-specific seeder outages; steady-state annual or slow-cadence sources remain fresh when their seeders are running on schedule. The fix ships with a score/ranking cache-prefix bump (v19 → v20) so cached overallCoverage and headlineEligible values cannot mix pre-fix full-confidence stale observations with post-fix derated confidence coverage. v17.4 — inflation-stability and NaN-safe blending (round 2 P2-N2/P2-N3). currencyExternal now scores inflation stability around a 1-3% low-positive target band. Deflation below 0% and zero inflation no longer score as perfect; inflation above the band is penalized toward a 50% cap. The generic weighted blend helper now admits only finite numeric scores, so NaN cannot consume a metric’s full weight and then collapse to zero. The fix ships with score/ranking cache-prefix bumps (v21 → v22), history (v16 → v17), and interval (v5 → v6) so published scores, ranking aggregates, 30-day trends, and sensitivity bands all recompute from the same scorer math. v17.5 — import-HHI source-year certainty derating (#4088). importConcentration keeps the Comtrade HHI score magnitude unchanged, but source years older than the normal four-year window, missing years, and malformed years now derate certainty coverage to the stale floor. Because coverage participates in the coverage-weighted recovery-domain aggregate, the fix ships with score/ranking cache-prefix bumps (v22 → v23), history (v17 → v18), and interval (v6 → v7) so published scores, ranking aggregates, 30-day trends, and sensitivity bands do not mix pre-derate and post-derate values. v17.6 — outage-feed observed-quiet semantics (audit P3-8). infrastructure now treats a loaded outage feed with an empty outages[] array as observed quiet (score 100), matching cyberDigital’s no-event semantics for the same upstream feed. The previous infrastructure scorer dropped the outage component when the penalty was zero, so countries with no current outage events lost the 0.25 component instead of receiving credit for observed absence. This ships in the same v23 score / v23 ranking / v18 history / v7 interval cache generation as the import-HHI derate above — both are coverage- and score-affecting freshness fixes batched into v23, so published scores, ranking aggregates, 30-day trends, and sensitivity bands recompute from the same scorer math. v17.7 — WTO trade-policy severity scoring (audit P2-1). tradePolicy now scores WTO restriction and barrier feeds as the current one-row-per-reporter severity payload written by scripts/seed-supply-chain-trade.mjs: low=0, moderate=1, high=2, with legacy missing-status rows treated as moderate. The old count-based scorer normalized row counts against 30/40 anchors even though the seed emits at most one current row per reporter/country; that made ordinary WTO rows near-inert and never exercised the historical IN_FORCE multiplier. This ships in the same v23 score / v23 ranking / v18 history / v7 interval generation as the import-HHI derate and outage semantics above, so published scores, ranking aggregates, 30-day trends, and sensitivity bands recompute from the same severity-based trade-policy baseline. Open construct gaps and operational caveats (documented honestly, not silently deferred):

Economic-complexity / industrial-base indicator. The index measures shock-absorption mechanisms (the construct test at the top of this document); it does not measure structural diversification. A country with monoculture exports + a strong central-government balance sheet can outscore a more diversified peer with weaker fiscal headroom. Adding an Atlas-of-Economic-Complexity (Hidalgo–Hausmann ECI) or manufacturing-value-added share would be a deliberate construct expansion, not a correction — flagged as a candidate for the v18 plan.
importConcentration seeder coverage gaps. UN Comtrade HS2 bilateral can fall through to the curated_list_absent impute (50 / 0.3 / unmonitored) for countries whose data is available but not landing in the import-HHI cache. Known reporter-code drift is handled in the shared Comtrade reporter override map, and Russia uses a seed-only stale-period fallback because the standard four-year window currently returns no annual import rows. If valid-code reporters such as AE/RU/NO/CH remain absent after a force-refresh, treat HTTP 429s and quota-exhausted HTTP 403s as an operational Comtrade key-budget problem first: widen IMPORT_HHI_PER_KEY_DELAY_MS, add COMTRADE_API_KEYS, or lower IMPORT_HHI_MAX_CONCURRENCY per docs/railway-seed-consolidation-runbook.md. This is a seeder coverage and freshness issue, not a scoring construct issue.
cyberDigital has no cross-day smoothing. Same-snapshot burst volatility is bounded by the per-snapshot severity-weight cap above, and seeder TTL / last-good behavior protect against empty or failed fetches — but neither is multi-day smoothing. Because cyber:threats:v2 stamps lastSeenAt at ~fetch time and leaves firstSeenAt unpopulated, the scorer cannot tell a one-day spike from sustained multi-day pressure: both present as a single capped snapshot. Genuine burst-vs-sustained discrimination needs either (a) the cyber seeder fixed to populate a true discovery timestamp (firstSeenAt) so the scorer can group by discovery day, or (b) a cross-snapshot rolling/EWMA state maintained by the resilience seeder. Both are tracked as follow-ups; until then the dimension is a bounded point-in-time signal, not a smoothed one.

v1.0 (April 2026)

Baseline. Scored on domain-weighted average of 5 domains and 13 dimensions (pre-Recovery domain).

PR #2821: added the baseline-vs-stress engine and the dataVersion field on the response.
PR #2847: reverted the overall-score formula from baseline * (1 - stressFactor) (which over-penalized every country) to a domain-weighted sum; fixed the RSF press-freedom direction so a low RSF abuse-index value maps to higher resilience.
PR #2858: seed script now computes missing country scores directly via the scorer import path instead of relying on a separate ranking writer.

v1.1 (April 2026) — Phase 1 reference-grade upgrade

Previous published version. Phase 1 of the reference-grade upgrade plan (docs/internal/country-resilience-upgrade-plan.md). Methodology surface reorganized for full reproducibility without changing the top-line domain weights or scoring formula.

T1.1 (#2941): regression test pins the Norway/US top-of-ranking ordering after an origin-document claim of a 100-point ceiling did not reproduce. Failing-then-passing test guards the invariant.
T1.2 (#2847, #2858): pre-existing fixes from the 2026-04-07 and 2026-04-09 origin-doc reviews that were already in main at the start of Phase 1. Re-verified no additional action needed.
T1.3 (#2945): methodology page promoted to .mdx at CII parity with the required sections (Framework / Domains / Dimensions / Normalization / Weighting / Missing-data / Confidence / Ranking / Reproducibility appendix).
T1.4 (#2943): dataVersion field wired end-to-end from seed-resilience-static:v7.dataVersion through the scorer to the widget footer so analysts see the exact ISO date of the underlying source data.
T1.5 (#2947 foundation, #2961 propagation): three-level staleness classifier (fresh, aging, stale) driven by the per-indicator cadence in the registry. Propagated through scoreAllDimensions and exposed as ResilienceDimension.freshness.{lastObservedAtMs, staleness} on the response.
T1.6 (#2949 scaffold, #2962 full grid): per-dimension confidence grid in the widget. The full grid adds an imputation-class icon column (consuming T1.7 schema) and a freshness-badge column (consuming T1.5 propagation). 5-column layout with mobile responsive breakpoint.
T1.7 (#2944 foundation, #2959 schema, #2964 source-failure wiring): four-class imputation taxonomy stable-absence / unmonitored / source-failure / not-applicable exposed on ResilienceDimension.imputationClass. The scorer aggregation pass consults seed-meta:resilience:static.failedDatasets and re-tags imputed dimensions as source-failure when the underlying adapter fetch failed. Deleted the last absence-based return branch in scoreCurrencyExternal so the taxonomy is the single source of truth for every imputed path.
T1.8 (#2946): methodology doc linter enforces dimension parity between this document and _indicator-registry.ts. CI fails if any dimension drifts.
T1.9 (this PR): cache-key / health-registry sync regression test so future version bumps in _shared.ts cannot silently break health probes. No cache keys were bumped in Phase 1 because every schema addition was additive with default fallbacks on the existing resilience:score:v7 and resilience:ranking:v9 keys.

What did not change in v1.1: the domain-weighted aggregation formula, the 5-domain / 13-dimension structure as of v1.1, the goalpost ranges, the per-dimension weights. (Phase 2 below added the Recovery domain + 6 new recovery dimensions for the current 6/19 shape and rewired domain weights; the aggregation formula itself was unchanged.) Phase 2 owns the structural three-pillar rebuild; v1.1 is the methodology-surface and observability lift only.

Scorecard (v1.1 self-assessment)

Self-assessed against the standard composite-indicator review axes on a 0-10 scale. This is the Phase 1 acceptance gate defined in the upgrade plan (Methodology ≥7.5, Explainability ≥7.5). An external expert review (Phase 3 T3.8b) will supersede these self-ratings once it completes.

Axis	Score	Rationale
Methodology	7.5	Every dimension has a named source, direction, goalpost range, weight, cadence, and imputation class. Missing-data rules are explicit and tagged with a 4-class taxonomy. The aggregation formula is a simple domain-weighted average, auditable from first principles. Gap: the overall-score formula is still single-axis compensatory (a strong institutional score can wash out a weak exposure score), which Phase 2 replaces with a partly non-compensatory three-pillar form.
Explainability	7.5	Per-dimension confidence grid in the widget shows coverage %, imputation class, and freshness for every dimension on every country. Tooltip text is generated from the taxonomy so analysts can click through to the meaning without reading this document. Gap: no waterfall chart of individual signal contributions yet, that lands in Phase 3 T3.3.
Reproducibility	8.0	Every dimension’s sourceKey, cadence, and goalpost lives in `_indicator-registry.ts` and is linted against this doc. Cache keys were already versioned in the v1.1 implementation; see the Redis keys table above for the current score, ranking, history, and interval prefixes. `dataVersion` is written by the seed and plumbed to the widget footer. Gap: the benchmark and backtest scripts do not yet run on a CI cron; those land in Phase 2 T2.7.
Source quality	7.0	World Bank, IMF, WHO, IEA, UNHCR, UCDP, IPC, BIS, FAO, RSF, GPI: all authoritative. Gap: curated-list sources (BIS ~40 economies, WTO) do not cover the full WorldMonitor country set, which is why the `unmonitored` imputation class exists. Phase 2 T2.9 adds language-normalized information signal to reduce English-press bias.
Timeliness	6.5	Structural sources are annual (WGI, GPI, RSF, WHO, IMF macro) and dominate the total weight of the index. BIS EER is monthly. The Freshness classifier (T1.5) surfaces this at the dimension level so users can see which parts of a country score are 12 months old. Thirteen stress-side indicators already run at realtime/hourly or daily cadence via the cross-source stack (`ucdpConflict`, `internetOutages`, `infraOutages`, `unrestEvents` at realtime; `socialVelocity` via the hourly Reddit relay with a 180-minute health budget; `sanctionCount`, `cyberThreats`, `gpsJamming`, `shippingStress`, `transitDisruption`, `euGasStorageStress`, `energyPriceStress`, `newsThreatScore` at daily). Gap: the live-shock pillar relies on those signals but the structural pillar is still capped by annual sources; Phase 2 T2.2 adds FX volatility at daily cadence to narrow the cadence gap on the currency-external dimension and the Phase 3 reference-edition split will formalize annual vs rolling cadences per pillar.
Sensitivity	7.0	Weight-perturbation Monte Carlo sensitivity (#2823) exists in the backtesting layer. Phase 1 did not add new sensitivity work. Overall p5/p95 score sensitivity bands are computed under the active score formula and exposed (#2877, #2885, #3967), and the widget renders the overall `[p05–p95]` range next to the score. The band is a formula-aware weight-perturbation sensitivity range, not an input-data uncertainty interval. Gap: no waterfall chart of individual signal contributions yet; that lands in Phase 3 T3.3.

Phase 1 acceptance gate status: met. Both required thresholds (Methodology ≥7.5, Explainability ≥7.5) are satisfied with honest rationales. The two gaps flagged in each axis are tracked against Phase 2 and Phase 3 tasks in the upgrade plan.

v2.0 (April 2026) — Phase 2 structural rebuild

Current published version. Phase 2 of the reference-grade upgrade plan (docs/internal/country-resilience-upgrade-plan.md). The response-shape rebuild is live: every response now carries a real domain-weighted, coverage-scaled pillars[] array regrouping the six domains into structural readiness, live shock exposure, and recovery capacity. The recovery domain adds six new dimensions, and the validation suite (cross-index benchmark, outcome backtest, sensitivity analysis) gates the activated pillar-combined formula. The top-level overall_score is now the partly non-compensatory pillar-combined score (see Pillar-combined score activation); the six-domain weighted aggregate remains available only as the rollback path when RESILIENCE_PILLAR_COMBINE_ENABLED=false.

T2.1 (#2977): Three-pillar schema added to proto and OpenAPI. schemaVersion: "2.0" feature flag introduced with backward-compatible "1.0" fallback path for one release cycle. Response now carries a pillars array alongside existing domains.
T2.2a (#2979): Signal tiering registry committed. Every indicator tagged Core, Enrichment, or Experimental with per-signal coverage percentage and license audit status. Registry enforced by CI linter.
T2.2b (#2987): Recovery capacity pillar with 6 new dimensions across a new recovery domain: fiscal space (debt service ratio), reserve adequacy (months of imports), short-term external debt coverage, import concentration (HHI), hospital surge capacity, and state continuity composite (WGI subset). Five new seeders following Railway gold-standard pattern (3 real data sources, 2 stubs pending source configuration). Cache key bumped to the current version.
T2.3 (#2990/#3954): Three-pillar aggregation shape shipped and activated. Every response now carries real domain-weighted, coverage-scaled pillar scores and pillar coverage at pillars[]. Pillar weights: structural readiness 0.40, live shock exposure 0.35, recovery capacity 0.25. A penalty factor (1 − α × (1 − min_pillar / 100)) with α = 0.5 is implemented as penalizedPillarScore in server/worldmonitor/resilience/v1/_shared.ts and is exercised by the sensitivity suite. The top-level overall_score is the penalized pillar-combined form in production; the six-domain weighted aggregate is retained as the flag-off rollback path.
T2.4 (#2985): Cross-index benchmark script validates the overall resilience score against three current public comparators: INFORM Risk Index, UNDP HDI, and the WorldRiskIndex vulnerability component. ND-GAIN is deferred until the validation image can unzip the 2026 archive, and Fragile States Index is retired from public artifacts because fresh bulk data is no longer available. Results are stored in resilience:benchmark:external:v1 and committed as validation artifacts.
T2.5 (#2986): Outcome backtest framework covering 7 event families (FX stress, sovereign stress, power outages, food-crisis escalation, refugee surges, sanctions shocks, conflict spillover). Each family has a binary event definition, a 2024-2025 hold-out window, an AUC target of 0.75, and a 0.03 gate width for release decisions. Four families currently use frozen independently sourced 2024-2025 reference sets (FX stress, sovereign stress, power outages, sanctions shocks); three read live Redis seed outputs (food-crisis escalation, refugee surges, conflict spillover). The committed artifact exposes dataSource and labelSources per family so this split is auditable.
T2.6/T2.8 (#2991): Sensitivity suite v2 with 4-pass perturbation (weight, goalpost, imputation, alpha), alpha-curve analysis, and ceiling-effect detection. Release gate: no single-axis perturbation moves a top-50 country by more than 5 rank positions; overall dimension failure rate must be 20% or lower.
T2.7 (#2988): Railway cron service wired for weekly benchmark, backtest, and sensitivity runs. Results published to Redis with health monitoring integration. Weekly cron leaves the previous artifact in place on cold-start skips; release regeneration runs the scripts with --strict or RESILIENCE_VALIDATION_STRICT=1 so skipped or failing artifacts block publication.
T2.9 (#2992): Language and source-density normalization for the informationCognitive dimension. RSF press freedom and social velocity scores are weighted by language coverage of the source set to correct for English-press bias. The dimension is promoted back to Core tier after normalization.

What changed from v1.1: The five-domain flat structure was extended into a six-domain structure by adding the Recovery domain with six new dimensions, and a three-pillar outer layer groups the six domains into structural readiness (0.40), live shock exposure (0.35), and recovery capacity (0.25). Every response now carries real pillar scores at pillars[]. The schemaVersion field is "2.0" by default (env var RESILIENCE_SCHEMA_V2_ENABLED=false provides a rollback path). The top-level overall_score is now the pillar-combined penalized formula, which reduces compensatory washout by applying the min-pillar penalty to the weighted pillar mean. The cache key is bumped to the current version.

Pillar-combined score activation (active)

The plan’s non-compensatory pillar combine is the methodologically stronger form: it prevents a strong institutional score from fully washing out a severe live-shock exposure. Before activation we measured the actual impact on the live ranking. Sensitivity and comparison artifact (2026-04-21, commit 048bb8b, 52-country sample, regenerated after the comparison script was corrected to use the production buildPillarList aggregation): docs/snapshots/resilience-pillar-sensitivity-2026-04-21.json.

Metric	Value
Spearman rank correlation (current vs proposed)	0.9863
Mean absolute score delta	−11.30 points (every country drops)
Max top-50 rank swing	9 positions (Syria)
Ceiling / floor effects under ±20% weight perturbation	None detected
Release gate result (≤20% dimensions exceeding 3-rank swing)	PASS (0/19 failures)

Top 5 movers by absolute rank change:

Country	Current rank	Proposed rank	Rank Δ	Current score	Proposed score	Score Δ
Syria	40	49	↓9	49.64	30.55	−19.09
Central African Republic	46	39	↑7	46.46	34.55	−11.91
Venezuela	42	48	↓6	47.70	31.18	−16.52
Afghanistan	33	37	↓4	54.55	37.97	−16.58
Russia	23	27	↓4	61.08	46.28	−14.80

Interpretation: Rank order is strongly preserved on the 52-country sample (Spearman 0.9863 clears the ≥0.90 bar typically required for a rank-stable methodology change). The ranking shape — who is top-10, who is bottom-10, Lebanon below South Africa, Norway above the US — does not materially change. However, every country’s absolute score drops on average ~11 points because the penalty factor is always ≤ 1, and imbalanced countries with one very weak pillar (Syria, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Russia) drop the most (15-19 points). Balanced top-tier countries (Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway) drop the least (5-7 points). This is the intended behavior: the penalty punishes pillar imbalance, and pillar imbalance is strongly correlated with state fragility. Activation status: RESILIENCE_PILLAR_COMBINE_ENABLED=true is live in production and in the Railway validation cron. The rank-stability evidence supports the activated default — there is no statistical reason to keep the legacy compensatory form. The visible score drop is a methodology change, not a deterioration in country conditions. The activation wiring keeps rollback a single env-var change:

Feature flag: RESILIENCE_PILLAR_COMBINE_ENABLED, read dynamically from process.env per call. Production Vercel and Railway validation environments set this to true; unset/false remains the local default and rollback path.
Cache invalidation: per-country score cache bumped from resilience:score:v9: to resilience:score:v10:, ranking cache bumped from resilience:ranking:v9 to resilience:ranking:v10, and score-history bumped from resilience:history:v4: to resilience:history:v5: (subsequently bumped to resilience:score:v11:, resilience:ranking:v11, and resilience:history:v6: in the recovery-domain weight rebalance — see the Redis keys table above for current values). The version bumps are a clean-slate guard; the actual cross-formula isolation is the _formula tag written into every cached score / ranking payload and the :d6 / :pc suffix on every history sorted-set member, checked at read time so a flag flip forces a rebuild without waiting for TTLs.
Methodology-aware level thresholds: classifyResilienceLevel reads isPillarCombineEnabled() and switches the high/medium cutoffs from 70/40 (6-domain) to 60/30 (pillar-combined). Without this, scale compression alone would demote FI (75.64 → 68.60) and NZ (76.26 → 67.93) from “high” to “medium” purely because the formula changed, not because anything about the country changed. The re-anchored cutoffs preserve the qualitative label for every country whose old label was correct.
Re-anchored release-gate bands: tests/resilience-pillar-combine-activation.test.mts pins high-band anchors (NO, CH, DK) at ≥ 55 (vs the 6-domain formula’s ≥ 70 floor) and low-band anchors (YE, SO) at ≤ 40 (vs ≤ 45). The snapshot test reads methodologyFormula from each snapshot and applies the matching bands. The reference-edition recompute confirms the bands hold with margin after domain-weighted pillar aggregation: NO = 74.85 (≥ 55 by 19.85 points), YE = 29.20 (≤ 40 by 10.80 points).
Projected and authoritative snapshots: docs/snapshots/resilience-ranking-pillar-combined-projected-2026-04-21.json carries the 52-country preview tables used before activation. docs/snapshots/resilience-ranking-2026-05-28.json carries the authoritative full-universe live capture after the flag was activated; it predates the P1-1 domain-weighted pillar aggregation fix and is retained as a pre-P1-1 historical capture until the next live full-universe capture is generated.

Rollback: set RESILIENCE_PILLAR_COMBINE_ENABLED=false, flush the current resilience:score:v24:*, resilience:ranking:v24, and resilience:history:v19:* keys (or wait for TTLs to expire). The 6-domain formula lives alongside the pillar combine in _shared.ts and needs no code change to come back.

Scorecard (v2.0 self-assessment)

Self-assessed against the standard composite-indicator review axes on a 0-10 scale. This is the Phase 2 acceptance gate defined in the upgrade plan (Validation >= 8.0, Data >= 9.0, Architecture >= 9.0). An external expert review (Phase 3 T3.8b) will supersede these self-ratings once it completes.

Axis	Score	Rationale
Validation	8.0	Cross-index benchmark against INFORM, UNDP HDI, and the WorldRiskIndex vulnerability component with explicit directional hypotheses. Outcome backtest across 7 event families with AUC release gates. Sensitivity suite with 4-pass perturbation and ceiling detection. Gap: external expert review (Phase 3 T3.8b) not yet complete.
Data	9.0	20 active dimensions across 6 domains (plus 2 structurally-retired dimensions kept in the registry), 47+ indicators. Recovery capacity uses real import-HHI data where Comtrade quota/backfill limits permit; `fuelStockDays` is retired from the core score and retained only as an experimental registry surface. Signal tiering registry tags every indicator Core/Enrichment/Experimental with coverage + license audit. Gap: reserve-margin integration, external expert review, formal refresh SLAs, and attribution/explanation surfaces.
Architecture	9.0	Three-pillar schema with schemaVersion feature flag for backward compat. Penalized weighted mean aggregation with documented alpha. Domain-weighted pillar scores. Cache-key versioning (bumped per schema change). Language normalization corrects English-press bias. Gap: alpha tuning is initial (0.5), needs backtest-driven refinement after live data accumulates.
Methodology	8.5	Every dimension has a named source, direction, goalpost, weight, cadence, imputation class, AND tier. Four-class imputation taxonomy live end-to-end. Freshness classifier surfaces staleness at the dimension level. Methodology doc linter enforces parity. Gap: three-pillar weight rationale is defensible but not yet empirically optimized.
Explainability	8.0	Per-dimension confidence grid with imputation icon + freshness badge. Pillar structure makes the index decomposable (structural vs live-shock vs recovery). Gap: no waterfall chart yet (Phase 3 T3.3), no change attribution (Phase 3 T3.5).
Timeliness	7.0	13 stress-side indicators at realtime/daily cadence. Language normalization corrects for source-density bias. Recovery capacity adds monthly reserve + debt signals. Gap: structural sources still annual (WGI/GPI/RSF/WHO). Phase 3 reference-edition split formalizes annual vs rolling cadences per pillar.

Phase 2 acceptance gate status: met. All three required thresholds (Validation >= 8.0, Data >= 9.0, Architecture >= 9.0) are satisfied. The gaps flagged in each axis are tracked against Phase 3 tasks in the upgrade plan.

v2.1 (April 2026) — PR 1 energy construct repair (active)

Status: active in production. PR 1 in the resilience repair plan (docs/plans/2026-04-22-001-fix-resilience-scorer-structural-bias-plan.md). Addresses construct errors §3.1, §3.2, §3.3 in one coherent PR. It originally landed behind RESILIENCE_ENERGY_V2_ENABLED; production now runs with the flag on, the runtime manifest reports constructVersions.energy="v2", and the legacy scorer is retained as the flag-off rollback path.

Framing decision: Option B (power-system security). The energy dimension under v2 measures power-system security, not total-energy security. See Energy Domain section above for rationale and future-reversal cost.
Indicators retired: electricityConsumption (wealth proxy), gasShare / coalShare / dependency (replaced by importedFossilDependence), renewShare (absorbed into lowCarbonGenerationShare).
Indicators added (live in PR 1): importedFossilDependence (composite: EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS × max(EG.IMP.CONS.ZS, 0) / 100, reusing the existing resilience:static.iea.energyImportDependency.value for net-imports), lowCarbonGenerationShare (EG.ELC.NUCL.ZS + EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS + EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS — hydro summed explicitly because WB RNEW excludes hydroelectric), powerLossesPct (EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS, weight absorbs the deferred reserveMarginPct’s 0.10 share). accessToElectricityPct moves to the infrastructure domain where it acts as a grid-collapse threshold.
Indicator deferred in PR 1: reserveMarginPct — IEA electricity-balance seeder is out of scope per plan §3.1 open-question. Redis key name + scorer-plumbing slot reserved for the commit that ships the seeder.
New seeders (weekly): seed-low-carbon-generation.mjs (EG.ELC.NUCL.ZS + EG.ELC.RNEW.ZS + EG.ELC.HYRO.ZS), seed-fossil-electricity-share.mjs (EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS), seed-power-reliability.mjs (EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS). Bundled by seed-bundle-resilience-energy-v2.mjs for a single Railway cron service. Net-energy-imports (EG.IMP.CONS.ZS) is NOT a new seeder — it reuses the existing seed-resilience-static.mjs path. All three seed-meta keys are registered as STRICT SEED_META entries in api/health.js (NOT ON_DEMAND_KEYS) per plan 2026-04-24-001: /api/health reports CRIT on absence/staleness and the scorer fails closed (ResilienceConfigurationError → source-failure) if v2 is active before seeds populate. The 2026-06-02 live audit reported OK for lowCarbonGeneration, fossilElectricityShare, and powerLosses.
Acceptance gates (plan §6): Spearman vs baseline >= 0.85; no country moves >15 points; matched-pair gap signs verified; cohort median shifts capped at 10 points; per-indicator effective influence measured via the PR 0 apparatus. The post-flip ranking and acceptance artifacts still need a credentialed operator capture as docs/snapshots/resilience-ranking-live-post-pr1-{date}.json and docs/snapshots/resilience-energy-v2-acceptance-{date}.json; see docs/methodology/energy-v2-flag-flip-runbook.md for the exact commands and required credentials.

v2.2 (April 2026) — PR 3 dead-signal cleanup

Status: landing. PR 3 in the resilience repair plan (docs/plans/2026-04-22-001-fix-resilience-scorer-structural-bias-plan.md). Addresses plan §3.5 (dead signals and regional-only signals in the core score) and §3.6 (coverage-based nominal-weight cap). Unlike PR 1, no flag — changes apply immediately because the retired constructs were never producing global signal.

§3.5 point 1 — fuelStockDays permanently retired from the core score. IEA/EIA fuel-stock disclosure covers ~45 OECD-member countries; every other country was imputed unmonitored. scoreFuelStockDays now pins at score=50, coverage=0, imputationClass=null for every country. Coverage-weighted domain aggregation excludes it (coverage=0 contributes zero weight), and user-facing confidence / coverage averages exclude it via the RESILIENCE_RETIRED_DIMENSIONS registry filter (distinct from non-retired runtime coverage=0 entries, which must keep dragging confidence down — that is the sparse-data signal). imputationClass=null (not source-failure) because retirement is structural, not a runtime outage; source-failure would render a false “Source down” label in the widget on every country. The recoveryFuelStockDays registry entry remains (tier=experimental) so the data surfaces on IEA-member drill-downs. Re-retention requires a globally-comparable strategic-reserve disclosure concept (>180 countries) to emerge.
§3.5 point 2 — currencyExternal rebuilt on IMF inflation + WB reserves. BIS REER / DSR covered only the 64 BIS-reporting economies; the old composite fell through to curated_list_absent (coverage 0.3) or a thin IMF proxy (coverage 0.45) for roughly two-thirds of the 196-country public rankable universe. New dimension: inflationStability (IMF WEO headline inflation, weight 0.60) + fxReservesAdequacy (WB reserves in months, weight 0.40). Coverage ladder: both=0.85, inflation-only=0.55, reserves-only=0.40, neither=0.30. Legacy fxVolatility + fxDeviation kept as tier='experimental' on country drill-downs for the 64 BIS economies.
§3.5 point 3 — externalDebtCoverage re-goalposted from (0..5) to (0..2). The old goalpost made ratios under 0.5 all score above 90, saturating at 100 across the full 9-country probe (including stressed states). New goalpost is anchored on Greenspan-Guidotti: ratio=1.0 (short-term debt matches reserves = reserve inadequacy threshold) → score 50; ratio=2.0 (double the threshold = acute rollover-shock exposure) → score 0. Ratios above 2.0 clamp to 0.
§3.6 — Coverage-and-influence gate on indicator weight. tests/resilience-coverage-influence-gate.test.mts fails the build if any core indicator below the committed 70% coverage floor for the rankable universe carries more than 5% nominal weight in the overall score. The effective-influence half (variance-explained, Pearson-derivative) runs through scripts/validate-resilience-sensitivity.mjs and is committed as an artifact per plan §5 acceptance-criterion 9.
Acceptance gates (plan §6): Spearman vs prior-state >= 0.85, no country swings >5 points from PR 1 state (plan §3.5 deliverable row 4), all release-gate anchors hold, matched-pair directions verified. Sensitivity rerun and post-PR-3 snapshot committed as docs/snapshots/resilience-ranking-live-post-pr3-{date}.json at flag-flip/ranking-refresh time.
Construct-audit updates: docs/methodology/indicator-sources.yaml updates recoveryDebtToReserves.constructStatus from dead-signal to observed-mechanism citing the Greenspan-Guidotti anchor.

Editorial notes

This document is maintained at parity with OECD/JRC composite-indicator standards: every dimension has a named source, direction, goalpost range, weight rationale, cadence, and imputation class. A methodology doc linter (Phase 1 T1.8) validates that the list of dimensions in the indicator registry matches the list documented here and fails CI if they drift.
For questions about an individual country’s score, the widget footer shows the dataVersion, the confidence label, and the 30-day delta; the deep-dive panel exposes per-dimension breakdowns so an analyst can see which component moved. The full proto schema lives in docs/api/ResilienceService.openapi.yaml.

Country Instability Index Chokepoint Methodology

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​Construct contract

​Construct repair status

​In the dashboard

​Overview

​Domains and Weights

​Dimensions and Indicators

​Economic Domain (weight 0.17)

​Macro-Fiscal

​Currency & External

​Trade Policy

​Financial System Exposure

​Infrastructure Domain (weight 0.15)

​Cyber & Digital

​Logistics & Supply

​Infrastructure

​Energy Domain (weight 0.11)

​Energy

​Social & Governance Domain (weight 0.19)

​Governance

​Social Cohesion

​Conflict & Displacement

​Information & Cognitive

​Health & Food Domain (weight 0.13)

​Health & Public Service

​Food & Water

​Recovery Domain (weight 0.25)

​Fiscal Space

​Reserve Adequacy

​Liquid Reserve Adequacy

​Sovereign Fiscal Buffer

​External Debt Coverage

​Import Concentration

​State Continuity

​Fuel Stock Days

​Normalization

​Scoring Formula

​Dimension Score

​Domain Score

​Overall Score

​Resilience Level Classification

​Missing Data Handling

​Coverage Tracking

​Imputation Taxonomy

​Low Confidence Flag

​Grey-Out Threshold

​Imputation Share

​Data Sources

​Supplementary Fields

​Versioning

​Reproducibility Appendix

​Redis keys used by the scorer

​dataVersion semantics

​Reproducing a score by hand

​Changelog

​v17 (April 2026) — universe + coverage rebuild (plan 2026-04-26-002)

​v1.0 (April 2026)

​v1.1 (April 2026) — Phase 1 reference-grade upgrade

​Scorecard (v1.1 self-assessment)

​v2.0 (April 2026) — Phase 2 structural rebuild

​Pillar-combined score activation (active)

​Scorecard (v2.0 self-assessment)

​v2.1 (April 2026) — PR 1 energy construct repair (active)

​v2.2 (April 2026) — PR 3 dead-signal cleanup

​Editorial notes