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Put up to five countries side by side across every indicator. The leader in each row is marked — direction-aware, so “best” always means best.
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IndicatorPSEWest Bank and GazaMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.36rank #71
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile36.3rank #134
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.05rank #76
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.11rank #59
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.41rank #56
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile30rank #180
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.36rank #71
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.06rank #65
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile33.8rank #190
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile47.5rank #130
Rule of Law0-100 percentile39.9rank #164
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #27
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.08rank #82
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.1rank #68
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile33.3rank #178
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.25rank #71
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment6.3%rank #125
Agriculture value added% GDP5.5%rank #102
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker129,490rank #91
Current account balance% GDP-15.8%rank #89
Employment-to-population ratio%34%rank #178
FDI net inflows% GDP1.9%rank #48
GDPcurrent US$17.17Brank #136
GDP growth%4.3%rank #64
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$3,171.1rank #136
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $4,272.5rank #153
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $6,547.1rank #138
Government expenditure% GDP26.2%rank #68
Gross capital formation% GDP25.6%rank #45
Gross savings% GDP9.2%rank #70
High-technology exports% manuf. exports1.8%rank #126
Industry value added% GDP16.3%rank #151
Inflation%9.8%rank #149
Labour force participation rate%45%rank #166
Personal remittances received% GDP4%rank #30
R&D expenditure% GDP0.45%rank #57
Researchers in R&Dper million584.4rank #56
Trade openness% GDP74.8%rank #77
Unemployment% labor force24.4%rank #181
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%24.4%rank #181
Vulnerable employment% employment18.4%rank #63
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2436.1%rank #173
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2436.1%rank #173
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop98.8%rank #56
Basic sanitation access% pop99.4%rank #25
Child mortalityper 1003.8rank #114
DTP3 immunization coverage%88%rank #12
Health spending% GDP10.7%rank #21
Infant mortalityper 1k births17rank #81
Life expectancyyears69.2rank #160
Maternal mortalityper 100k16rank #16
Measles immunization% children89%rank #11
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%89%rank #11
Physiciansper 1k2.2rank #68
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m322.4rank #131
Road traffic deathsper 100k5.3rank #14
Smoking prevalence% adults35.5%rank #127
Suicide mortality rateper 100k0.65rank #5
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k0.29rank #2
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births37.9rank #152
Education
Adult literacy%97.9%rank #5
Education spending% GDP5.4%rank #40
Expected years of schoolingyears13rank #113
Mean years of schoolingyears10.1rank #89
Primary completion rate% relevant age91.2%rank #94
Primary enrollment% gross91.4%rank #139
Secondary enrollment% gross89.1%rank #92
Tertiary enrollment% gross44.5%rank #76
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00026.5rank #45
Fertility ratebirths/woman3.3rank #48
Median age of populationyears19.8rank #179
Net migration rateper 1,000-4.6rank #181
Populationpeople5.41Mrank #123
Population growth%2.3%rank #33
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years81.3rank #87
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands8,451.9rank #112
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age72.9rank #39
Urban population%87.4%rank #32
Climate
CO₂ emissionst4.78Mrank #138
CO₂ per capitat0.87rank #154
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation0%rank #144
Electricity from solar% generation39.4%rank #1
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Forest area% land1.7%rank #189
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita0.92rank #13
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh414.1rank #84
Renewable electricity%39.4%rank #74
Renewable energy share%15.4%rank #34
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e4.8rank #38
Society
Asylum seekerspeople16,726rank #127
Extreme poverty% pop2.1%rank #17
Female labor participation%18.9%rank #174
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1008.2rank #101
Gender Development Indexratio0.95rank #67
Gini indexindex36.4rank #30
Homicide rateper 100k0.62rank #15
Human Development Index0-10.67rank #103
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.54rank #87
Internet users% pop86.6%rank #65
Life satisfaction0-104.7rank #106
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.65rank #71
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #82
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #74
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.07rank #107
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.28rank #129
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people48,323rank #144
Youth NEET rate%25.4%rank #132
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths15,182rank #49
Hazard & exposure0-107.2rank #61
Human hazard & exposure0-109.5rank #72
INFORM risk score0-106.4rank #51
Lack of coping capacity0-105.6rank #47
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.9rank #16
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-107.8rank #56
Natural hazard & exposure0-101.6rank #5
Socio-economic vulnerability0-104.4rank #44
Vulnerability0-106.5rank #53
Vulnerable groups0-108rank #69
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