In 2024, the United States had a foreign direct investment (FDI) confidence index score of 2.3, the highest in the world. Of the 25 highest ranked countries, six were so-called emerging economies. Of the emerging economies, China had the third highest ranking overall, with a score of 2.21. The FDI confidence index ranks the likelihood of companies making a FDI in a given country.

The Office of Policy and Management (OPM) prepares the Public Investment Community (PIC) index not later than July 15 annually, pursuant to §7-545 of the Connecticut General Statutes (CGS). The PIC index measures the relative wealth and need of Connecticut’s towns by ranking them in descending order by their cumulative point allocations for: (1) per capita income; (2) adjusted equalized net grand list per capita; (3) equalized mill rate; (4) per capita aid to children receiving Temporary Family Assistance program benefits; and (5) unemployment rate. Pursuant to CGS §7-545 the PIC index includes each town that has a cumulative point ranking in the top quartile of the PIC Index (i.e. the 42 towns with the highest number of points). When a town’s ranking falls below the top quartile in a given fiscal year, the town's designation as a Public Investment Community continues for that year and the following four fiscal years. As a result, the PIC index includes certain towns carried over from previous fiscal years. The PIC index determines eligibility for several financial assistance programs that various agencies administer, including: -Urban Action Bond Assistance -Small Town Economic Assistance Program -Community Economic Development Program -Residential Mortgage Guarantee Program -Education Cost Sharing -Malpractice Insurance Purchase Program -Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund -Enterprise Corridor Zone Designation Most of the towns included on the PIC index are eligible to elect for assistance under the Small Town Economic Assistance Program (STEAP) in lieu of Urban Action Bond assistance, pursuant to CGS §4-66g(b). An eligible town’s legislative body (or its board of selectmen if the town’s legislative body is the town meeting) must vote to choose STEAP assistance and the town must notify OPM following the vote. STEAP election is valid for four years and the statute allows extensions for additional four-year periods. STEAP election is not available for Ansonia, Bridgeport, Bristol, Danbury, East Hartford, Enfield, Groton, Hartford, Killingly, Manchester, Meriden, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Stamford, Torrington, Vernon, Waterbury, West Hartford, West Haven, and Windham. Pursuant to CGS §7-545, the following municipalities are also Public Investment Communities: Groton Montville Preston Scotland Thomaston Thompson Voluntown Wethersfield

As of 2022, the Philippines ranked 83rd out of 126 countries in terms of the global investment opportunity index, slipping a notch in comparison to the previous year. The ranking measures the investment opportunity of global investors to deploy capital in the country's economy. Among the categories being considered were economic performance, workforce talent, economic openness, and tax regulations, among others.

The average for 2023 based on 173 countries was 0.58 percent. The highest value was in the USA: 44.9 percent and the lowest value was in the Netherlands: -39.78 percent. The indicator is available from 1993 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The average for 2023 based on 173 countries was 4.49 billion U.S. dollars. The highest value was in the USA: 348.78 billion U.S. dollars and the lowest value was in the Netherlands: -309.01 billion U.S. dollars. The indicator is available from 1970 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the oldest, continuously running investment advisory publications. Since 1955, the Survey has been published in multiple formats including print, loose-leaf, microfilm and microfiche. Data from 1997 to present is now available online. The Survey tracks 1700 stocks across 92 industry groups. It provides reported and projected measures of firm performance, proprietary rankings and analysis for each stock on a quarterly basis. This dataset, a subset of the Survey covering the years 1980-1989 has been digitized from the microfiche collection available at the Dewey Library (FICHE HG 4501.V26). It is only available to MIT students and faculty for academic research. Published weekly, each edition of the Survey has the following three parts: Summary & Index: includes an alphabetical listing of all industries with their relative ranking and the page number for detailed industry analysis. It also includes an alphabetical listing of all stocks in the publication with references to their location in Part 3, Ratings & Reports. Selection & Opinion: contains the latest economic and stock market commentary and advice along with one or more pages of research on interesting stocks or industries, and a variety of pertinent economic and stock market statistics. It also includes three model stock portfolios. Ratings & Reports: This is the core of the Value Line Investment Survey. Preceded by an industry report, each one-page stock report within that industry includes Timeliness, Safety and Technical rankings, 3-to 5-year analyst forecasts for stock prices, income and balance sheet items, up to 17 years of historical data, and Value Line analysts’ commentaries. The report also contains stock price charts, quarterly sales, earnings, and dividend information. Publication Schedule: Each edition of the Survey covers around 130 stocks in seven to eight industries on a preset sequential schedule so that all 1700 stocks are analyzed once every 13 weeks or each quarter. All editions are numbered 1-13 within each quarter. For example, in 1980, reports for Chrysler appear in edition 1 of each quarter on the following dates: January 4, 1980 – page 132 April 4, 1980 – page 133 July 4, 1980 – page 133 October 1, 1980 – page 133 Reports for Coca-Cola were published in edition 10 of each quarter on: March 7, 1980 – page 1514 June 6, 1980 – page 1518 Sept. 5, 1980 – page 1517 Dec. 5, 1980 – page 1548 Any significant news affecting a stock between quarters is covered in the supplementary reports that appear at the end of part 3, Ratings & Reports. File format: Digitized files within this dataset are in PDF format and are arranged by publication date within each compressed annual folder. How to Consult the Value Line Investment Survey: To find reports on a particular stock, consult the alphabetical listing of stocks in the Summary & Index part of the relevant weekly edition. Look for the page number just to the left of the company name and then use the table below to identify the edition where that page number appears. All editions within a given quarter are numbered 1-13 and follow equally sized page ranges for stock reports. The table provides page ranges for stock reports within editions 1-13 of 1980 Q1. It can be used to identify edition and page numbers for any quarter within a given year. Ratings & Reports Edition Pub. Date Pages 1 04-Jan-80 100-242 2 11-Jan-80 250-392 3 18-Jan-80 400-542 4 25-Jan-80 550-692 5 01-Feb-80 700-842 6 08-Feb-80 850-992 7 15-Feb-80 1000-1142 8 22-Feb-80 1150-1292 9 29-Feb-80 1300-1442 10 07-Mar-80 1450-1592 11 14-Mar-80 1600-1742 12 21-Mar-80 1750-1908 13 28-Mar-80 2000-2142 Another way to navigate to the Ratings & Reports part of an edition would be to look around page 50 within the PDF document. Note that the page numbers of the PDF will not match those within the publication.

In 2024, China had a foreign direct investment (FDI) confidence index score of 2.21, the highest of the emerging economies. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia followed in second and third. Worldwide, the United States had the highest FDI confidence score, with China in third. The FDI confidence index ranks the likelihood of companies making a FDI in a given country.

This dataset provides values for FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT reported in several countries. The data includes current values, previous releases, historical highs and record lows, release frequency, reported unit and currency.

In 2019 China was number 1 in Road Infrastructure Investment. Need to compare country statistics and get a global overview? Find all data easily.

According to the 2023 Infrastructure Index, Singapore had the best overall political stability of the 40 countries ranked in the index. The three Nordic countries Finland, Norway, and Sweden followed behind. The index ranks the attractiveness in countries based on nine different criteria, including economic status, political stability, and private participation. Germany topped the index in 2023.

Eleven indicators are used to create a composite index of national science capacity; 203 nations are represented; data from 2018 are used from multiple sources; data are normalized as appropriate; zscores are used to make the entire set comparable; USA, China, and Korea are leading in the capacity index ranking.

Comments are welcome to Caroline Wagner, wagner.911@osu.edu

Eleven indicators are used to create a composite index of national science capacity; weighted to emphasize the role of R&D spending and scientific workforce; 203 nations are represented; data from 2018 are used from multiple sources; data are normalized as appropriate; zscores are used to make the entire set comparable; USA, Korea, and Denmark are leading in the weighted capacity index ranking. Comments are welcome to Caroline Wagner, wagner.911@osu.edu

According to the 2023 Infrastructure Index, Norway was the country where it was easiest to do business of the 40 countries ranked in the index, with a maximum possible score. Singapore, Finland, and Australia followed behind. The Infrastructure index ranks the attractiveness in countries based on nine different criteria, including economic status, political stability, and private participation. Germany topped the index in 2023.

Quality of Life Index (higher is better) is an estimation of overall quality of life by using an empirical formula which takes into account purchasing power index (higher is better), pollution index (lower is better), house price to income ratio (lower is better), cost of living index (lower is better), safety index (higher is better), health care index (higher is better), traffic commute time index (lower is better) and climate index (higher is better).

Current formula (written in Java programming language):

index.main = Math.max(0, 100 + purchasingPowerInclRentIndex / 2.5 - (housePriceToIncomeRatio * 1.0) - costOfLivingIndex / 10 + safetyIndex / 2.0 + healthIndex / 2.5 - trafficTimeIndex / 2.0 - pollutionIndex * 2.0 / 3.0 + climateIndex / 3.0);

For details how purchasing power (including rent) index, pollution index, property price to income ratios, cost of living index, safety index, climate index, health index and traffic index are calculated please look up their respective pages.

Formulas used in the past

Formula used between June 2017 and Decembar 2017

We decided to decrease weight from costOfLivingIndex in this formula:

index.main = Math.max(0, 100 + purchasingPowerInclRentIndex / 2.5 - (housePriceToIncomeRatio * 1.0) - costOfLivingIndex / 5 + safetyIndex / 2.0 + healthIndex / 2.5 - trafficTimeIndex / 2.0 - pollutionIndex * 2.0 / 3.0 + climateIndex / 3.0);

The World Happiness 2017, which ranks 155 countries by their happiness levels, was released at the United Nations at an event celebrating International Day of Happiness on March 20th. The report continues to gain global recognition as governments, organizations and civil society increasingly use happiness indicators to inform their policy-making decisions. Leading experts across fields – economics, psychology, survey analysis, national statistics, health, public policy and more – describe how measurements of well-being can be used effectively to assess the progress of nations. The reports review the state of happiness in the world today and show how the new science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.

The scores are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. This question, known as the Cantril ladder, asks respondents to think of a ladder with the best possible life for them being a 10 and the worst possible life being a 0 and to rate their own current lives on that scale. The scores are from nationally representative samples for 2017 and use the Gallup weights to make the estimates representative. The columns following the happiness score estimate the extent to which each of six factors – economic production, social support, life expectancy, freedom, absence of corruption, and generosity – contribute to making life evaluations higher in each country than they are in Dystopia, a hypothetical country that has values equal to the world’s lowest national averages for each of the six factors. They have no impact on the total score reported for each country, but they do explain why some countries rank higher than others.

Quality of life index, link: https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/indices_explained.jsp

Happiness store, link: https://www.kaggle.com/unsdsn/world-happiness/home

Irrigation district plays an important role in China’s agricultural production. In recent years, China conducted many water-saving renovation construction projects of irrigation districts. However, the current implementation effect of irrigation district water-saving renovation has not been well-characterized. Comprehensive and systematic evaluation of the implementation effect of water-saving renovation in irrigation districts can provide scientific basis for further construction and management of irrigation districts. This study screened preliminary index system in four dimensions: preliminary work, completion of construction tasks, completion of planned investment, management and reform. Based on the statistical results of the questionnaire surveys and subsequently analyzed, fourteen key evaluation indicators were finally identified. Percentile system and expert evaluation method were then used to determine the assigned score of every indicator. Based on the evaluation criteria, the evaluation method of the implementation effect was formulated. Ten key medium-sized irrigation districts in southeastern China were taken as a research example in this study, with the implementation effect of water-saving renovation of 10 irrigation districts being comprehensively evaluated. The results show that these irrigation districts have a relatively high implementation effect of water-saving renovation. The data results from the scores of four dimensions and fourteen indicators show that the index system is reasonable and practicable, and the evaluation results are basically in line with actual situation. These findings have a good practical reference value for making decisions about how to instruct the modernization development of water-saving renovation of irrigation districts in China.

This statistic describes the government spending score of Saudi Arabia on the Economic Freedom Index ranking from 1998 to 2018. According to the 2018 ranking, Saudi Arabia scored on government spending of the Economic Freedom index 40 compared to the world average is 59.5. Saudi Arabia is considered in this regard repressed.

In 2025, the investment freedom sub-score of Israel in the Economic Freedom Index ranking was 70. This reflected a decrease compared to 2022 and 2023, when the investment freedom score stood at 80.

The average for 2021 based on 78 countries was 1.25 percent. The highest value was in Israel: 5.56 percent and the lowest value was in Iraq: 0.04 percent. The indicator is available from 1996 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Singapore led the Index of Economic Freedom in 2024, with an index score of 83.5 out of 100. Switzerland, Ireland, Taiwan, and Luxembourg rounded out the top five. Economic Freedom Index In order to calculate the Economic Freedom Index, the source takes 12 different factors into account, including the rule of law, government size, regulatory efficiency, and open markets. All 12 factors are rated on a scale of zero to 100 and are weighted equally. Every country is rated within the Index in order to provide insight into the health and freedom of the global economy. Singapore's economy Singapore is one of the four so-called Asian Tigers, a term used to describe four countries in Asia that saw a booming economic development from the 1950s to the early 1990. Today, the City-State is known for its many skyscrapers, and its economy continue to boom. It has one of the lowest tax-rates in the Asia-Pacific region, and continues to be open towards foreign direct investment (FDI). Moreover, Singapore has one of the highest trade-to-GDP ratios worldwide, underlining its export-oriented economy. Finally, its geographic location has given it a strategic position as a center connecting other countries in the region with the outside world. However, the economic boom has come at a cost, with the city now ranked among the world's most expensive.

Weighted average and ranking of the simulator evaluation indicators.