Empire Rankings Overview

Empire Rankings is Ezana's global power index, inspired by Ray Dalio's Changing World Order framework. It measures the world's top 11 nations across 18 dimensions of power.

The 18 dimensions

• Economic: Debt Burden, Expected Growth, Economic Output, Trade, Markets & Financial Center, Reserve Currency Status, Cost Competitiveness.
• Capability: Education, Innovation & Technology, Infrastructure, Military Strength.
• Resources: Geology, Resource Efficiency.
• Social & Political: Internal Conflict, Character & Civility, Rule of Law, Wealth Gaps.
• External: Acts of Nature.

How scores are computed

For each dimension and each year, we normalize raw indicator data across the 11 countries on a 0–1 scale. A country's Empire Score is the weighted average across the 18 dimensions (weights follow Dalio's published framework).

Data sources

The initial release pulls most indicators from the World Bank Open Data API and UN statistical archives. We're actively adding additional sources (IMF, SIPRI for military, OECD for education) — expect more dimensions to fill in over time. Where data is missing for a given country-year, we forward-fill from the most recent available value and mark the cell as estimated.