Below is our most recent Political Risk Index (PRI) Table ranked from low to high risk within each region listed. The PRI is the overall measure of risk for a given country, calculated by using all 17 risk components from the PRS Methodology including turmoil, financial transfer, direct investment, and export markets. The Index provides a basic, convenient way to compare countries directly, as well as demonstrating changes over the past five years.
| 20-Oct | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 |
GLOBAL AVERAGES | 70 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 71 |
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N. & Cent. America Avg. | 71 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 74 |
Canada | 89 | 91 | 91 | 92 | 92 |
United States | 83 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 86 |
Jamaica | 78 | 79 | 80 | 78 | 76 |
Panama | 76 | 78 | 78 | 77 | 77 |
Trinidad & Tobago | 76 | 78 | 78 | 79 | 79 |
Costa Rica | 74 | 75 | 75 | 73 | 72 |
El Salvador | 74 | 76 | 74 | 69 | 69 |
Mexico | 73 | 71 | 70 | 75 | 79 |
Guatemala | 70 | 71 | 72 | 71 | 73 |
Dominican Republic | 69 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 69 |
Honduras | 67 | 68 | 70 | 67 | 68 |
Nicaragua | 66 | 67 | 66 | 72 | 74 |
Haiti | 53 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 64 |
Cuba | 43 | 48 | 50 | 48 | 56 |
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South America Avg. | 66 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 68 |
Chile | 79 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 82 |
Uruguay | 78 | 79 | 79 | 77 | 77 |
Peru | 73 | 78 | 78 | 78 | 78 |
Paraguay | 72 | 72 | 74 | 72 | 73 |
Guyana | 71 | 68 | 66 | 67 | 65 |
Suriname | 70 | 71 | 71 | 68 | 68 |
Colombia | 70 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 73 |
Brazil | 64 | 66 | 68 | 67 | 68 |
Bolivia | 62 | 61 | 63 | 67 | 67 |
Argentina | 60 | 62 | 66 | 70 | 67 |
Ecuador | 51 | 59 | 59 | 57 | 57 |
Venezuela | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 41 |
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West Europe Avg. | 79 | 81 | 81 | 80 | 80 |
Norway | 88 | 88 | 88 | 88 | 88 |
Austria | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 86 |
Sweden | 86 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 88 |
Ireland | 85 | 84 | 83 | 82 | 81 |
Switzerland | 84 | 86 | 86 | 84 | 84 |
Netherlands | 84 | 86 | 87 | 86 | 84 |
Finland | 84 | 85 | 87 | 83 | 84 |
Germany | 82 | 84 | 84 | 84 | 83 |
Denmark | 81 | 83 | 83 | 82 | 82 |
Belgium | 79 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 79 |
Spain | 77 | 80 | 80 | 78 | 77 |
United Kingdom | 77 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 80 |
France | 72 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 75 |
Greece | 72 | 74 | 72 | 68 | 65 |
Portugal | 72 | 75 | 77 | 74 | 74 |
Turkey | 72 | 72 | 72 | 73 | 72 |
Italy | 70 | 70 | 69 | 71 | 70 |
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Central & South Asia | 65 | 67 | 67 | 67 | 66 |
India | 72 | 74 | 72 | 72 | 70 |
Azerbaijan | 72 | 74 | 73 | 71 | 71 |
Sri Lanka | 67 | 69 | 68 | 70 | 71 |
Bangladesh | 64 | 65 | 66 | 63 | 64 |
Kazakhstan | 63 | 66 | 66 | 68 | 67 |
Pakistan | 52 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 54 |
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East Europe Avg. | 75 | 75 | 75 | 74 | 74 |
Czech Republic | 87 | 89 | 89 | 88 | 89 |
Bulgaria | 84 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 81 |
Poland | 82 | 82 | 82 | 78 | 79 |
Slovakia | 82 | 83 | 84 | 81 | 82 |
Romania | 76 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 |
Hungary | 73 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 73 |
Ukraine | 57 | 58 | 53 | 53 | 55 |
Russia | 56 | 57 | 57 | 56 | 52 |
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MidEast/N. Africa Avg. | 64 | 65 | 65 | 65 | 65 |
United Arab Emirates | 86 | 89 | 90 | 88 | 87 |
Israel | 84 | 85 | 85 | 84 | 81 |
Kuwait | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 78 |
Oman | 74 | 74 | 74 | 76 | 77 |
Saudi Arabia | 74 | 74 | 76 | 76 | 76 |
Morocco | 71 | 72 | 72 | 71 | 69 |
Algeria | 61 | 62 | 62 | 62 | 63 |
Egypt | 60 | 64 | 63 | 58 | 56 |
Tunisia | 60 | 64 | 62 | 65 | 67 |
Iran | 47 | 49 | 50 | 57 | 57 |
Libya | 46 | 46 | 46 | 44 | 40 |
Iraq | 45 | 48 | 48 | 47 | 47 |
Syria | 45 | 45 | 45 | 46 | 43 |
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Sub-Saharan Africa Avg. | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 63 |
Botswana | 80 | 81 | 81 | 82 | 82 |
Ghana | 66 | 68 | 68 | 71 | 68 |
South Africa | 65 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 67 |
Angola | 64 | 63 | 65 | 63 | 64 |
Cameroon | 64 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 68 |
Kenya | 62 | 65 | 67 | 67 | 65 |
Guinea | 61 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 54 |
Gabon | 61 | 64 | 63 | 66 | 69 |
Congo | 61 | 62 | 62 | 63 | 67 |
Zambia | 60 | 65 | 66 | 65 | 67 |
Côte d’Ivoire | 58 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 68 |
Nigeria | 57 | 57 | 57 | 55 | 58 |
Sudan | 50 | 53 | 56 | 55 | 53 |
Congo DR | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 49 |
Zimbabwe | 36 | 42 | 43 | 42 | 44 |
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East Asia/Pacific Avg. | 77 | 78 | 78 | 78 | 78 |
Singapore | 90 | 92 | 92 | 91 | 90 |
Hong Kong | 88 | 90 | 91 | 93 | 92 |
Taiwan | 88 | 89 | 90 | 89 | 89 |
Japan | 86 | 87 | 85 | 85 | 85 |
New Zealand | 86 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 87 |
Australia | 85 | 88 | 86 | 86 | 85 |
South Korea | 82 | 81 | 81 | 81 | 83 |
Malaysia | 78 | 78 | 78 | 79 | 78 |
Thailand | 76 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 76 |
Indonesia | 69 | 71 | 68 | 69 | 69 |
Vietnam | 69 | 69 | 71 | 69 | 70 |
Philippines | 67 | 69 | 70 | 68 | 68 |
Papua New Guinea | 65 | 67 | 67 | 64 | 67 |
China | 64 | 67 | 69 | 69 | 67 |
Myanmar | 62 | 63 | 64 | 64 | 64 |
Note: Produced semi-annually. Only the most current data is displayed.
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FAQs
The International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) rating comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk: political, financial, and economic. A separate index is created for each of the subcategories. The Political Risk index is based on 100 points, Financial Risk on 50 points, and Economic Risk on 50 points.
What is the Political Risk score? ›
The PRI is the overall measure of risk for a given country, calculated by using all 17 risk components from the PRS Methodology including turmoil, financial transfer, direct investment, and export markets.
What is the ICGR data? ›
The ICRG (International Country Risk Guide) Researcher Dataset from the Political Risk Services (PRS) Group comprises 22 variables forecasting three subcategories of risk (political, financial, and economic), for 146 countries, since 1984.
What is the PRS group of industries? ›
The PRS Group, one of India's oldest business houses, is involved in identifying and financing interesting investment opportunities in industrial and service sectors. The Group also owns and controls problem-solving, knowledge-based businesses in India.
What is the highest credit risk rating? ›
Highest credit quality
'AAA' ratings denote the lowest expectation of default risk. They are assigned only in cases of exceptionally strong capacity for payment of financial commitments. This capacity is highly unlikely to be adversely affected by foreseeable events.
What is the highest investment grade rating? ›
Companies with any credit rating in this category boast a high capacity to repay their loans; however, those awarded a AAA rating stand at the top of the heap and are deemed to have the highest capacity of all to repay loans. The next category down includes the following ratings: A+
What is a risk score of 75 or higher? ›
By default, a score of 65 or above indicates elevated risk, while a score of 75 or above indicates high risk.
What is high political risk? ›
Political risk faced by firms can be defined as "the risk of a strategic, financial, or personnel loss for a firm because of such nonmarket factors as macroeconomic and social policies (fiscal, monetary, trade, investment, industrial, income, labour, and developmental), or events related to political instability ( ...
What is a good political stability score? ›
Scores in the Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism index range from a highest/most stable score of approximately 2.5 to the lowest/least stable score of approximately -2.5.
How do you calculate the ICGR? ›
ICGR: The internal capital generation rate (ICGR) is the rate, in percent, at which the bank generates new equity. The formula that can be used to calculate ICGR is: ICGR = Retained earnings change / Equity.
The internal capital generation rate (ICGR) is a quantifiable mathematical rate that portrays how quickly a bank is able to generate.
What is capital generation? ›
Answer and Explanation: Capital Generation is the conscious efforts of the enterprise owners/partners to increase its Capital funds for use in the following: Start-up capital - used to finance new venture & business. To finance operations - this are the day-to-day operating expense.
Who owns PRS? ›
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Who runs PRS? ›
A team of senior executives, the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), is responsible for the day-to-day management of PRS and PRSfM, led by our CEO, Andrea Czapary Martin.
Is PRS for profit? ›
PRS is a not-for-profit organisation whose members have agreed to us deducting our administration expenses. The administration rate differs depending on the source of the revenue, a full list can be found here.
What is the rating of US International Development Finance Corporation? ›
Summary. The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) ranks 174th in the Financial System Benchmark.
What is the Federal Reserve compliance rating system? ›
The CC Rating System is based upon a scale of 1 through 5 in increasing order of supervisory concern. FFIEC member agencies (Agencies) promote compliance with federal consumer protection laws and regulations through su- pervisory and outreach programs.
What is the full form of ICRG? ›
Infrastructure for Climate Resilient Growth (ICRG): Promoting climate-smart livelihoods.
What is the highest non investment grade rating? ›
Investment grade and high yield bonds
Investors typically group bond ratings into 2 major categories: Investment-grade refers to bonds rated Baa3/BBB- or better. High-yield (also referred to as "non-investment-grade" or "junk" bonds) pertains to bonds rated Ba1/BB+ and lower.