Country economic health

Every economy Bullrun can score on its six-pillar stress index - labour, housing, credit, fiscal, external and cycle - ranked most stressed first. Higher is more stressed. An economy covering too few pillars is absent rather than shown as calm, so this list is shorter than the map behind it.

Stress ranking

How many economies sit in each band

How the score works

Fourteen indicators are each turned into a 0-100 stress reading, either on a fixed cross-country scale or - where a raw level means different things in different economies, as a debt ratio or a house-price ratio does - as a percentile against that country's own twenty-year history. Those readings average into six pillars (labour, housing, credit, fiscal, external, cycle), and the pillars into the composite.

An economy covering fewer than four of the six pillars is refused a composite rather than given a low one, which is why this list holds 107 economies and not every country on the map: a thin input set would otherwise read as a calm economy. Coverage is printed on the face of every country's page, and a stale reading stays visible with its date, marked not scored, rather than being quietly dropped.

Built from OECD, BIS, IMF and World Bank releases at their published frequencies. See the data license.

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