Earliest recorded position in this interval.
Rank— → #57National score— → —
World Wealthiest Country · Abundance history
Latvia 🇱🇻 · Country History
Movement in the World Wealthiest Country Abundance Scorecard, measured through access to life rather than GDP or money. Every archived point adjustment and source remains available; unchanged observations are condensed by date, not deleted.
World Wealthiest Country · Recorded rank history
34 meaningful rank/score point(s)Dated changes with readable spacing · diagonal lines show rank movement · horizontal lines show held positions · scroll left for earlier dates.
National score over the same dates
The rank can hold while points move. This chart shows only actually recorded score readings; its vertical scale follows the visible minimum and maximum.
Dots mark initial readings and rank or score changes; unchanged readings extend a dated interval. Select a dot for the score and related archived events.
Selected rank observation
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #7 to #57 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#7 → #57National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#57 → #58National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #57 to #58 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#57 → #58National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#58 → #57National score— → -55.72
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #57 to #60 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#57 → #60National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #58 to #57 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#58 → #57National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#57 → #61National score-55.72 → -56.01
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
The headline TBF Abundance Score changed after the underlying published country dataset changed.
TBF points-56.01 → -56.98
Earlier score events did not preserve an exact category-by-category diff. Review detailed category change events recorded after the new history audit was activated.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #62 to #63 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#62 → #63National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #61 to #62 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#61 → #62National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Published evidence, observations or country data changed. The headline score did not materially change in this update.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #60 to #61 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#60 → #61National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#61 → #63National score-56.01 → -56.01
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
No additional field-by-field change record was found at this date; older missing details are not reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#63 → #56National score-56.01 → -56.01
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 11 Oct 2026 · 02:50 GMT-0500; 18 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #63 to #56 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#63 → #56National score— → —
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#56 → #55National score-56.01 → -56.01
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 11 Oct 2026 · 12:02 GMT-0500; 50 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
No additional field-by-field change record was found at this date; older missing details are not reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#55 → #50National score-56.01 → -56.98
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 11 Oct 2026 · 12:03 GMT-0500; 1 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #55 to #50 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#55 → #50National score-56.01 → -56.98
Countries that fell below this country (7)
- Vietnam #47 → #51; points -55.43 → -57.00
- Malta #49 → #52; points -55.68 → -57.07
- Maldives #44 → #53; points -55.05 → -57.08
- Bahrain #45 → #54; points -55.12 → -57.15
- Seychelles #51 → #56; points -55.83 → -57.39
- Guam #48 → #66; points -55.68 → -58.16
- American Samoa #50 → #68; points -55.71 → -58.30
This older event recorded only one side of the movement. Other crossing countries were not archived and cannot be reliably named.
Family Formation, Continuity & Child Stability supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Family Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 41.55 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
Recorded reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (2)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Family stability is judged on whether housing, care, income, childcare and public systems reduce burdens on family formation and child continuity.
Latvia: no generally available nationwide domestic same-sex civil marriage is recorded in the cited legal-status review as of 2026-10-09. Article 110 defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Partnerships became legally available to same-sex couples in 2024, but are not marriage. This is a legal-classification reading only; it does not prove demographic causation.
Sources archived after the change (2)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Family stability is judged on whether housing, care, income, childcare and public systems reduce burdens on family formation and child continuity.
Latvia: no generally available nationwide domestic same-sex civil marriage is recorded in the cited legal-status review as of 2026-10-09. Article 110 defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Partnerships became legally available to same-sex couples in 2024, but are not marriage. This is a legal-classification reading only; it does not prove demographic causation.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #51 to #50 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#51 → #50National score-56.01 → -56.98
Countries that fell below this country (5)
- Vietnam #43 → #51; points -55.43 → -55.43
- Malta #46 → #52; points -55.68 → -57.07
- Maldives #40 → #53; points -55.05 → -57.08
- Seychelles #48 → #56; points -55.83 → -55.83
- Guam #45 → #66; points -55.68 → -58.16
This older event recorded only one side of the movement. Other crossing countries were not archived and cannot be reliably named.
Rank#54 → #49National score-56.01 → -56.98
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#50 → #49National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #49 to #48 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#49 → #48National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
No peer movements were archived for this older rank event.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #50 to #49 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#50 → #49National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
No peer movements were archived for this older rank event.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#49 → #48National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #48 to #50 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#48 → #50National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
No peer movements were archived for this older rank event.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#48 → #50National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 12 Oct 2026 · 06:17 GMT-0500; 1303 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
No additional field-by-field change record was found at this date; older missing details are not reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#50 → #49National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #50 to #49 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#50 → #49National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Uruguay #46 → #59; points -56.89 → -57.82
This older event recorded only one side of the movement. Other crossing countries were not archived and cannot be reliably named.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#49 → #65National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #49 to #65 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#49 → #65National score-56.98 → -56.98
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that moved ahead of this country (16)
- Vietnam #50 → #49; points -57.00 → -57.00
- Malta #51 → #50; points -57.07 → -57.07
- Maldives #52 → #51; points -57.08 → -57.08
- Bahrain #53 → #52; points -57.15 → -57.15
- Chile #54 → #53; points -57.15 → -57.15
- Seychelles #55 → #54; points -57.39 → -57.39
- Denmark #56 → #55; points -57.46 → -57.46
- South Korea #57 → #56; points -57.70 → -57.70
- Montenegro #58 → #57; points -57.74 → -57.74
- Uruguay #59 → #58; points -57.82 → -57.82
- Australia #60 → #59; points -57.92 → -57.92
- Saint Martin (French part) #61 → #60; points -57.93 → -57.93
- Lithuania #62 → #61; points -58.05 → -58.05
- Macau #63 → #62; points -58.14 → -58.14
- Guam #64 → #63; points -58.16 → -58.16
- Serbia #65 → #64; points -58.17 → -58.17
This older event recorded only one side of the movement. Other crossing countries were not archived and cannot be reliably named.
National score changed while rank held.
Rank#65 → #65National score-56.98 → -58.21
Held through 13 Oct 2026 · 18:19 GMT-0500; 4 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
International Accessibility, Migration & Human Welcome changed from pending to 29.25. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
International Accessibility, Migration & Human Welcome
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | — | 29.25 |
| Base category score | — | 29.25 |
| Research coverage (%) | — | 100.00 |
| Category weight (%) | — | 6.00 |
| Entry Accessibility (25%) | — | 35.00 |
| Migrant Practical Life (30%) | — | 40.00 |
| Refugee / Neighbour Welcome (25%) | — | 20.00 |
| Flexibility / Continuity (20%) | — | 10.00 |
Updated reasoning
Four assessed rails: lawful entry; protection/residency; family continuity; cross-border accessibility. TBF authored assessments. A country immigration authority or UNHCR country document is authoritative for particular mechanisms, not all visa nationalities and fees.
Sources archived after the change (2)
Latvia distinguishes EU mobility, temporary and permanent residence permits, and asylum. The migration agency describes refugee/alternative protection, accommodation and family reunification rights, alongside an updated 2026 immigration law affecting residence documents. Routes remain document- and eligibility-dependent.
Latvia distinguishes EU mobility, temporary and permanent residence permits, and asylum. The migration agency describes refugee/alternative protection, accommodation and family reunification rights, alongside an updated 2026 immigration law affecting residence documents. Routes remain document- and eligibility-dependent.
External Footprint & Non-Extractive Global Conduct changed from pending to -10.25. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
External Footprint & Non-Extractive Global Conduct
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | — | -10.25 |
| Base category score | — | -10.25 |
| Research coverage (%) | — | 100.00 |
| Category weight (%) | — | 6.00 |
| Positive Contribution (25%) | — | 10.00 |
| Mutuality / Local Benefit (25%) | — | 5.00 |
| Documented Harm / Extraction (35%) | — | -10.00 |
| Accountability / Repair (15%) | — | -40.00 |
Updated reasoning
International Footprint v3.1: 25% contribution+25% local mutuality+20% other harm/repair+15% exporter+15% importer. Plastic scrap HS3915 2024 export=18847800 kg, import=17908700 kg. No reported volume is NOT treated as proof of zero trade; unknown role has neutral 0 provisional. The fourth visible rail shows (exporter+importer)/2. No second waste deduction.
Sources archived after the change (2)
The Latvian Foreign Ministry reports 41 development cooperation projects in 2025, including 16 in Ukraine, and discusses 2026 funding changes. These are documented external activities, but a net verdict also requires independent recipient outcomes and accounting for trade, resource extraction and ecological impacts.
The Latvian Foreign Ministry reports 41 development cooperation projects in 2025, including 16 in Ukraine, and discusses 2026 funding changes. These are documented external activities, but a net verdict also requires independent recipient outcomes and accounting for trade, resource extraction and ecological impacts.
Water & Sanitation Abundance supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Water & Sanitation Abundance
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure anno Category-relevant indicator: Basic drinking water service access. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Peace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Peace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. This category considers safety, environmental quality, public space, cultural/natural beauty and whether daily life leaves room for restoration and deli Category-relevant indicator: Homicides per 100,000 — safety proxy, not public delight. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. This category considers safety, environmental quality, public space, cultural/natural beauty and whether daily life leaves room for restoration and delight.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. This category considers safety, environmental quality, public space, cultural/natural beauty and whether daily life leaves room for restoration and delight.
Mobility & Reachability supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Mobility & Reachability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 41.55 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Mobility is judged on safe, affordable reach to daily life, public transport, roads and geographic inclusion rather than infrastructure length alone. Category-relevant indicator: Paved road network share — partial mobility proxy. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Mobility is judged on safe, affordable reach to daily life, public transport, roads and geographic inclusion rather than infrastructure length alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Mobility is judged on safe, affordable reach to daily life, public transport, roads and geographic inclusion rather than infrastructure length alone.
Living Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Living Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The EEA profile records substantial natural assets and sustainability action while keeping soil, agriculture, climate and system-transition pressures vi Category-relevant indicator: Forest area — one ecological resilience proxy. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The EEA profile records substantial natural assets and sustainability action while keeping soil, agriculture, climate and system-transition pressures visible. Living ground is judged on biodiversity, ecological condition, climate resilience, water/soil systems and demonstrated restoration rather than plans alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The EEA profile records substantial natural assets and sustainability action while keeping soil, agriculture, climate and system-transition pressures visible. Living ground is judged on biodiversity, ecological condition, climate resilience, water/soil systems and demonstrated restoration rather than plans alone.
Land Access & Spatial Freedom supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Land Access & Spatial Freedom
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Land abundance is judged on practical access, tenure, productive/open space and the ability of ordinary households to use space without prohibitive fina Category-relevant indicator: Agricultural land share — not proof of no-fee land access. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Land abundance is judged on practical access, tenure, productive/open space and the ability of ordinary households to use space without prohibitive financial barriers.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Land abundance is judged on practical access, tenure, productive/open space and the ability of ordinary households to use space without prohibitive financial barriers.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 41.55 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive c Category-relevant indicator: Intentional homicide rate — narrow safety proxy. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Human Time & Burden Return changed from 49.25 to 52. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Human Time & Burden Return
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 52.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 52.00 |
| Friction (25%) | -35.00 | 12.00 |
| Return / Regeneration (15%) | 70.00 | 10.00 |
Category point adjustment: +2.75 category points
Updated reasoning
Method 3.1 full 4-rail pass. 25% capacity + 35% reach + 25% paid work friction + 15% usable family time. Baseline capacity/reach preserved. Dated country-specific time evidence only where available; otherwise prior authored judgement retained.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Time abundance is assessed through paid work, informal work, unpaid care, commuting and administrative burden rather than output or employment alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Time abundance is assessed through paid work, informal work, unpaid care, commuting and administrative burden rather than output or employment alone.
Housing, Shelter & Housing Reach supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Housing, Shelter & Housing Reach
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 41.55 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Housing is judged on adequacy, affordability, resilience, security and ordinary household reach rather than construction volume alone. Category-relevant indicator: Population living in slums — urban housing constraint. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Housing is judged on adequacy, affordability, resilience, security and ordinary household reach rather than construction volume alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Housing is judged on adequacy, affordability, resilience, security and ordinary household reach rather than construction volume alone.
Health & Care Reach supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Health & Care Reach
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 41.55 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality re Category-relevant indicator: Universal health coverage service index. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Food, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Food, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Food production and market supply are separated from household affordability, diet quality, nutrition security and dependable public/free nourishment ro Category-relevant indicator: Prevalence of undernourishment — food access. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Food production and market supply are separated from household affordability, diet quality, nutrition security and dependable public/free nourishment routes.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Food production and market supply are separated from household affordability, diet quality, nutrition security and dependable public/free nourishment routes.
Family Formation, Continuity & Child Stability supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Family Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 41.55 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Family stability is judged on whether housing, care, income, childcare and public systems reduce burdens on family formation and child continuity. Category-relevant indicator: Total fertility rate. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (2)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Family stability is judged on whether housing, care, income, childcare and public systems reduce burdens on family formation and child continuity.
Latvia: no generally available nationwide domestic same-sex civil marriage is recorded in the cited legal-status review as of 2026-10-09. Article 110 defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Partnerships became legally available to same-sex couples in 2024, but are not marriage. This is a legal-classification reading only; it does not prove demographic causation.
Sources archived after the change (2)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Family stability is judged on whether housing, care, income, childcare and public systems reduce burdens on family formation and child continuity.
Latvia: no generally available nationwide domestic same-sex civil marriage is recorded in the cited legal-status review as of 2026-10-09. Article 110 defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Partnerships became legally available to same-sex couples in 2024, but are not marriage. This is a legal-classification reading only; it does not prove demographic causation.
Energy & Household Capability supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Energy & Household Capability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone. Category-relevant indicator: Access to electricity. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Education & Human Capability supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Education & Human Capability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Education is judged on real learning, access, completion, inclusion and human capability rather than enrolment alone. Category-relevant indicator: Primary education completion. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Education is judged on real learning, access, completion, inclusion and human capability rather than enrolment alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Education is judged on real learning, access, completion, inclusion and human capability rather than enrolment alone.
Durability, Repair & Material Return supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Durability, Repair & Material Return
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 49.25 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Durability is judged on repair, reuse, waste collection, recycling/material return and whether circular systems actually reach daily life. Category-relevant indicator: Ambient PM2.5 exposure — not a measure of material durability. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Earlier reasoning
Live-reviewed from the automation country audit. Capacity, reach, friction and return/regeneration are scored separately; national monetary gatekeeping is applied only at the overall-score stage.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Durability is judged on repair, reuse, waste collection, recycling/material return and whether circular systems actually reach daily life.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Durability is judged on repair, reuse, waste collection, recycling/material return and whether circular systems actually reach daily life.
The headline TBF Abundance Score changed after the underlying published country dataset changed.
TBF points-56.98 → -58.21
Earlier score events did not preserve an exact category-by-category diff. Review detailed category change events recorded after the new history audit was activated.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #49 to #65 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#49 → #65National score-56.98 → -58.21
Countries that moved ahead of this country (16)
- Vietnam #50 → #49; points -57.00 → -57.00
- Malta #51 → #50; points -57.07 → -57.07
- Maldives #52 → #51; points -57.08 → -57.08
- Bahrain #53 → #52; points -57.15 → -57.15
- Chile #54 → #53; points -57.15 → -57.15
- Seychelles #55 → #54; points -57.39 → -57.39
- Denmark #56 → #55; points -57.46 → -57.46
- South Korea #57 → #56; points -57.70 → -57.70
- Montenegro #58 → #57; points -57.74 → -57.74
- Uruguay #59 → #58; points -57.82 → -57.82
- Australia #60 → #59; points -57.92 → -57.92
- Saint Martin (French part) #61 → #60; points -57.93 → -57.93
- Lithuania #62 → #61; points -58.05 → -58.05
- Macau #63 → #62; points -58.14 → -58.14
- Guam #64 → #63; points -58.16 → -58.16
- Serbia #65 → #64; points -58.17 → -58.17
This older event recorded only one side of the movement. Other crossing countries were not archived and cannot be reliably named.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#65 → #64National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #65 to #64 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#65 → #64National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Bahrain #52 → #70; points -57.15 → -58.49
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#64 → #63National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #64 to #63 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#64 → #63National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- South Korea #55 → #117; points -57.70 → -57.70
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#63 → #62National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #63 to #62 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#63 → #62National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Italy #34 → #230
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#62 → #61National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #62 to #61 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#62 → #61National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Brunei #15 → #220; points -50.29 → -50.29
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#61 → #60National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #61 to #60 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#61 → #60National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Tokelau #2 → #241
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#60 → #59National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #60 to #59 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#60 → #59National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- San Marino #3 → #236
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #61 to #59 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#61 → #59National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (2)
- San Marino #4 → #236; points -47.91 → -47.91
- Tokelau #2 → #241
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#59 → #58National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #59 to #58 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#59 → #58National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Falkland Islands #3 → #217
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#58 → #57National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #58 to #57 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#58 → #57National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Liechtenstein #3 → #223; points -48.73 → -48.73
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#57 → #56National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #57 to #56 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#57 → #56National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon #6 → #235
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#56 → #55National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 20 Oct 2026 · 08:33 GMT-0500; 2 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #56 to #55 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#56 → #55National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Montenegro #48 → #227; points -57.74 → -57.74
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#55 → #54National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 20 Oct 2026 · 08:33 GMT-0500; 2 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #55 to #54 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#55 → #54National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Maldives #44 → #221
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#54 → #53National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #54 to #53 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#54 → #53National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Andorra #9 → #196; points -49.97 → -49.97
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#53 → #52National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 20 Oct 2026 · 08:33 GMT-0500; 2 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #53 to #52 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#53 → #52National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Serbia #52 → #231
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#52 → #212National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #212 to #211 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#212 → #211National score— → —
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Slovenia #64 → #232
Countries previously above that are no longer ranked (2)
- Kazakhstan Previously #120; no longer ranked in this snapshot
- Algeria Previously #125; no longer ranked in this snapshot
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #52 to #212 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#52 → #212National score-58.21 → —
Countries that moved ahead of this country (160)
- Portugal #53 → #52; points -58.28 → -58.28
- American Samoa #54 → #53; points -58.30 → -58.30
- United Kingdom #55 → #54; points -58.35 → -58.35
- Northern Mariana Islands #56 → #55; points -58.36 → -58.36
- France #57 → #56; points -58.45 → -58.45
- Bahrain #58 → #57; points -58.49 → -58.49
- New Caledonia #59 → #58; points -58.60 → -58.60
- Montserrat #60 → #59; points -58.79 → -58.79
- Cyprus #61 → #60; points -58.85 → -58.85
- Saudi Arabia #62 → #61; points -58.86 → -58.86
- U.S. Virgin Islands #63 → #62; points -59.10 → -59.10
- Bermuda #64 → #63; points -59.12 → -59.12
- Slovenia #65 → #64; points -59.14 → -59.14
- Niue #66 → #65; points -59.51 → -59.51
- Saint Barthélemy #67 → #66; points -59.53 → -59.53
- Cook Islands #68 → #67; points -59.66 → -59.66
- Cayman Islands #69 → #68; points -59.84 → -59.84
- Iceland #70 → #69; points -59.87 → -59.87
- India #71 → #70; points -59.94 → -59.94
- French Guiana #72 → #71; points -60.08 → -60.08
- Antigua and Barbuda #73 → #72; points -60.19 → -60.19
- Guyana #74 → #73; points -60.33 → -60.33
- Palau #75 → #74; points -60.39 → -60.39
- Trinidad and Tobago #76 → #75; points -60.48 → -60.48
- Curaçao #77 → #76; points -60.49 → -60.49
- Bulgaria #78 → #77; points -60.74 → -60.74
- Samoa #79 → #78; points -60.90 → -60.90
- Brazil #80 → #79; points -60.98 → -60.98
- Armenia #81 → #80; points -61.05 → -61.05
- Philippines #82 → #81; points -61.47 → -61.47
- Dominican Republic #83 → #82; points -61.61 → -61.61
- Germany #84 → #83; points -61.73 → -61.73
- Peru #85 → #84; points -61.92 → -61.92
- Türkiye #86 → #85; points -62.08 → -62.08
- Paraguay #87 → #86; points -62.11 → -62.11
- Mexico #88 → #87; points -62.21 → -62.21
- Anguilla #89 → #88; points -62.28 → -62.28
- Bolivia #90 → #89; points -62.50 → -62.50
- Poland #91 → #90; points -62.64 → -62.64
- Cabo Verde #92 → #91; points -62.84 → -62.84
- Turks and Caicos Islands #93 → #92; points -62.93 → -62.93
- Belarus #94 → #93; points -63.08 → -63.08
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines #95 → #94; points -63.27 → -63.27
- British Virgin Islands #96 → #95; points -63.64 → -63.64
- Georgia #97 → #96; points -63.73 → -63.73
- Bosnia and Herzegovina #98 → #97; points -63.76 → -63.76
- South Africa #99 → #98; points -63.77 → -63.77
- Albania #100 → #99; points -63.80 → -63.80
- Sint Maarten #101 → #100; points -63.99 → -63.99
- Taiwan #102 → #101; points -64.04 → -64.04
- Finland #103 → #102; points -64.05 → -64.05
- Malaysia #104 → #103; points -64.10 → -64.10
- Czech Republic #105 → #104; points -64.16 → -64.16
- Mayotte #106 → #105; points -64.29 → -64.29
- Qatar #107 → #106; points -64.60 → -64.60
- Ecuador #108 → #107; points -64.78 → -64.78
- Panama #109 → #108; points -64.97 → -64.97
- Azerbaijan #110 → #109; points -65.05 → -65.05
- Tunisia #111 → #110; points -65.10 → -65.10
- Croatia #112 → #111; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Indonesia #113 → #112; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Saint Kitts and Nevis #114 → #113; points -65.71 → -65.71
- Estonia #115 → #114; points -65.95 → -65.95
- Zambia #116 → #115; points -65.97 → -65.97
- Nepal #117 → #116; points -65.98 → -65.98
- Jordan #118 → #117; points -66.22 → -66.22
- Senegal #119 → #118; points -66.29 → -66.29
- Kenya #120 → #119; points -66.31 → -66.31
- Dominica #121 → #120; points -66.51 → -66.51
- Ghana #122 → #121; points -66.84 → -66.84
- Cambodia #123 → #122; points -66.86 → -66.86
- Kiribati #124 → #123; points -66.91 → -66.91
- New Zealand #125 → #124; points -66.94 → -66.94
- Uzbekistan #126 → #125; points -67.20 → -67.20
- Tuvalu #127 → #126; points -67.30 → -67.30
- Federated States of Micronesia #128 → #127; points -67.46 → -67.46
- Bangladesh #129 → #128; points -67.58 → -67.58
- Hungary #130 → #129; points -67.72 → -67.72
- Grenada #131 → #130; points -67.83 → -67.83
- Lebanon #132 → #131; points -67.94 → -67.94
- Guatemala #133 → #132; points -67.99 → -67.99
- Tonga #134 → #133; points -68.15 → -68.15
- Côte d’Ivoire #135 → #134; points -68.16 → -68.16
- Kuwait #136 → #135; points -68.22 → -68.22
- The Gambia #137 → #136; points -68.46 → -68.46
- Lesotho #138 → #137; points -68.54 → -68.54
- Cuba #139 → #138; points -68.75 → -68.75
- El Salvador #140 → #139; points -68.95 → -68.95
- Timor-Leste #141 → #140; points -69.09 → -69.09
- Nicaragua #142 → #141; points -69.27 → -69.27
- Venezuela #143 → #142; points -69.40 → -69.40
- Saint Lucia #144 → #143; points -69.67 → -69.67
- Comoros #145 → #144; points -69.77 → -69.77
- São Tomé and Príncipe #146 → #145; points -70.26 → -70.26
- Greece #147 → #146; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Vanuatu #148 → #147; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Hong Kong #149 → #148; points -70.62 → -70.62
- Sri Lanka #150 → #149; points -70.85 → -70.85
- Uganda #151 → #150; points -71.17 → -71.17
- Nauru #152 → #151; points -71.28 → -71.28
- Romania #153 → #152; points -71.47 → -71.47
- Solomon Islands #154 → #153; points -71.64 → -71.64
- Morocco #155 → #154; points -72.08 → -72.08
- United States of America #156 → #155; points -72.80 → -72.80
- Mozambique #157 → #156; points -72.82 → -72.82
- Burkina Faso #158 → #157; points -73.07 → -73.07
- Western Sahara #159 → #158; points -73.29 → -73.29
- Egypt #160 → #159; points -73.57 → -73.57
- Marshall Islands #161 → #160; points -73.68 → -73.68
- Puerto Rico #162 → #161; points -74.42 → -74.42
- Zimbabwe #163 → #162; points -74.56 → -74.56
- Honduras #164 → #163; points -76.90 → -76.90
- Turkmenistan #165 → #164; points -76.99 → -76.99
- Libya #166 → #165; points -77.22 → -77.22
- Iran #167 → #166; points -78.37 → -78.37
- Nigeria #168 → #167; points -78.63 → -78.63
- Iraq #169 → #168; points -80.27 → -80.27
- Pakistan #170 → #169; points -80.46 → -80.46
- Tanzania #171 → #170; points -80.51 → -80.51
- Angola #172 → #171; points -80.62 → -80.62
- Mali #173 → #172; points -80.95 → -80.95
- Cameroon #174 → #173; points -81.23 → -81.23
- Ethiopia #175 → #174; points -81.64 → -81.64
- Guinea #176 → #175; points -81.75 → -81.75
- Papua New Guinea #177 → #176; points -82.18 → -82.18
- Chad #178 → #177; points -82.87 → -82.87
- DR Congo #179 → #178; points -83.57 → -83.57
- Eritrea #180 → #179; points -84.07 → -84.07
- Ukraine #181 → #180; points -84.24 → -84.24
- Syria #182 → #181; points -87.91 → -87.91
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea #183 → #182; points -88.20 → -88.20
- Myanmar #184 → #183; points -88.69 → -88.69
- Haiti #185 → #184; points -90.52 → -90.52
- Afghanistan #186 → #185; points -90.75 → -90.75
- Sudan #187 → #186; points -93.37 → -93.37
- Palestine #188 → #187; points -94.71 → -94.71
- Andorra #189 → #188
- Aruba #190 → #189
- Barbados #191 → #190
- Belize #192 → #191
- Benin #193 → #192
- Bhutan #194 → #193
- Botswana #195 → #194
- Brunei #196 → #195
- Burundi #197 → #196
- Central African Republic #198 → #197
- China #199 → #198
- Djibouti #200 → #199
- Equatorial Guinea #201 → #200
- Eswatini #202 → #201
- Falkland Islands #203 → #202
- Fiji #204 → #203
- Gabon #205 → #204
- Guinea-Bissau #206 → #205
- Italy #207 → #206
- Jamaica #208 → #207
- Japan #209 → #208
- Kosovo #210 → #209
- Kyrgyzstan #211 → #210
- Laos #212 → #211
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#212 → #211National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Water & Sanitation Abundance changed from 49.25 to 51. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Water & Sanitation Abundance
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Reach (35%) | 75.00 | 80.00 |
Category point adjustment: +1.75 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure anno Category-relevant indicator: Basic drinking water service access. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction changed from 41.55 to 47.8. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 47.80 |
| Base category score | 41.55 | 47.80 |
| Capacity (25%) | 80.00 | 75.00 |
| Friction (25%) | -45.00 | -15.00 |
Category point adjustment: +6.25 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive c Category-relevant indicator: Intentional homicide rate — narrow safety proxy. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Health & Care Reach changed from 41.55 to 33.5. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Health & Care Reach
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 33.50 |
| Base category score | 41.55 | 33.50 |
| Reach (35%) | 68.00 | 45.00 |
Category point adjustment: -8.05 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality re Category-relevant indicator: Universal health coverage service index. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Energy & Household Capability changed from 49.25 to 51. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Energy & Household Capability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Reach (35%) | 75.00 | 80.00 |
Category point adjustment: +1.75 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone. Category-relevant indicator: Access to electricity. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Money Gate (separate 20-point gate) supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Money Gate (separate 20-point gate)
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 3.50 | 3.50 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
- Food
- The Finance Ministry budgets public free lunches for school pupils in grades 1–4 in 2026, a documented child-specific food route rather than unconditional household meals.
- Healthcare
- The national health service publishes patient copayments, some with exemptions. This is substantial public provision with remaining payment and access friction.
- Housing / Land
- The Ministry of Welfare reports expanded needs-tested housing benefits in 2026, covering eligible bills and rent rather than free housing or land for all.
- Transport
- Riga’s transit uses paid ticket categories, including 90-minute tickets, with concessions for specific residents rather than a universal fare-free baseline.
- Water / Energy
- Riga Water publishes metered service tariffs and national housing benefit provides conditional assistance with utility expenses. Household water and energy remain billed under ordinary access.
Earlier reasoning
- Food
- The Finance Ministry budgets public free lunches for school pupils in grades 1–4 in 2026, a documented child-specific food route rather than unconditional household meals.
- Housing / Land
- The Ministry of Welfare reports expanded needs-tested housing benefits in 2026, covering eligible bills and rent rather than free housing or land for all.
- Healthcare
- The national health service publishes patient copayments, some with exemptions. This is substantial public provision with remaining payment and access friction.
- Transport
- Riga’s transit uses paid ticket categories, including 90-minute tickets, with concessions for specific residents rather than a universal fare-free baseline.
- Water / Energy
- Riga Water publishes metered service tariffs and national housing benefit provides conditional assistance with utility expenses. Household water and energy remain billed under ordinary access.
Sources archived before (5)
Sources archived after the change (5)
Published evidence, observations or country data changed. The headline score did not materially change in this update.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #52 to #211 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#52 → #211National score-58.21 → —
Countries that moved ahead of this country (159)
- Portugal #53 → #52; points -58.28 → -58.28
- American Samoa #54 → #53; points -58.30 → -58.30
- United Kingdom #55 → #54; points -58.35 → -58.35
- Northern Mariana Islands #56 → #55; points -58.36 → -58.36
- France #57 → #56; points -58.45 → -58.45
- Bahrain #58 → #57; points -58.49 → -58.49
- New Caledonia #59 → #58; points -58.60 → -58.60
- Montserrat #60 → #59; points -58.79 → -58.79
- Cyprus #61 → #60; points -58.85 → -58.85
- Saudi Arabia #62 → #61; points -58.86 → -58.86
- U.S. Virgin Islands #63 → #62; points -59.10 → -59.10
- Bermuda #64 → #63; points -59.12 → -59.12
- Niue #66 → #64; points -59.51 → -59.51
- Saint Barthélemy #67 → #65; points -59.53 → -59.53
- Cook Islands #68 → #66; points -59.66 → -59.66
- Cayman Islands #69 → #67; points -59.84 → -59.84
- Iceland #70 → #68; points -59.87 → -59.87
- India #71 → #69; points -59.94 → -59.94
- French Guiana #72 → #70; points -60.08 → -60.08
- Antigua and Barbuda #73 → #71; points -60.19 → -60.19
- Guyana #74 → #72; points -60.33 → -60.33
- Palau #75 → #73; points -60.39 → -60.39
- Trinidad and Tobago #76 → #74; points -60.48 → -60.48
- Curaçao #77 → #75; points -60.49 → -60.49
- Bulgaria #78 → #76; points -60.74 → -60.74
- Samoa #79 → #77; points -60.90 → -60.90
- Brazil #80 → #78; points -60.98 → -60.98
- Armenia #81 → #79; points -61.05 → -61.05
- Philippines #82 → #80; points -61.47 → -61.47
- Dominican Republic #83 → #81; points -61.61 → -61.61
- Germany #84 → #82; points -61.73 → -61.73
- Peru #85 → #83; points -61.92 → -61.92
- Türkiye #86 → #84; points -62.08 → -62.08
- Paraguay #87 → #85; points -62.11 → -62.11
- Mexico #88 → #86; points -62.21 → -62.21
- Anguilla #89 → #87; points -62.28 → -62.28
- Bolivia #90 → #88; points -62.50 → -62.50
- Poland #91 → #89; points -62.64 → -62.64
- Cabo Verde #92 → #90; points -62.84 → -62.84
- Turks and Caicos Islands #93 → #91; points -62.93 → -62.93
- Belarus #94 → #92; points -63.08 → -63.08
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines #95 → #93; points -63.27 → -63.27
- British Virgin Islands #96 → #94; points -63.64 → -63.64
- Bosnia and Herzegovina #98 → #95; points -63.76 → -63.76
- South Africa #99 → #96; points -63.77 → -63.77
- Albania #100 → #97; points -63.80 → -63.80
- Sint Maarten #101 → #98; points -63.99 → -63.99
- Taiwan #102 → #99; points -64.04 → -64.04
- Finland #103 → #100; points -64.05 → -64.05
- Malaysia #104 → #101; points -64.10 → -64.10
- Czech Republic #105 → #102; points -64.16 → -64.16
- Mayotte #106 → #103; points -64.29 → -64.29
- Qatar #107 → #104; points -64.60 → -64.60
- Ecuador #108 → #105; points -64.78 → -64.78
- Panama #109 → #106; points -64.97 → -64.97
- Azerbaijan #110 → #107; points -65.05 → -65.05
- Tunisia #111 → #108; points -65.10 → -65.10
- Croatia #112 → #109; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Indonesia #113 → #110; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Saint Kitts and Nevis #114 → #111; points -65.71 → -65.71
- Estonia #115 → #112; points -65.95 → -65.95
- Zambia #116 → #113; points -65.97 → -65.97
- Nepal #117 → #114; points -65.98 → -65.98
- Jordan #118 → #115; points -66.22 → -66.22
- Senegal #119 → #116; points -66.29 → -66.29
- Kenya #120 → #117; points -66.31 → -66.31
- Dominica #121 → #118; points -66.51 → -66.51
- Ghana #122 → #119; points -66.84 → -66.84
- Cambodia #123 → #120; points -66.86 → -66.86
- Kiribati #124 → #121; points -66.91 → -66.91
- New Zealand #125 → #122; points -66.94 → -66.94
- Uzbekistan #126 → #123; points -67.20 → -67.20
- Tuvalu #127 → #124; points -67.30 → -67.30
- Federated States of Micronesia #128 → #125; points -67.46 → -67.46
- Bangladesh #129 → #126; points -67.58 → -67.58
- Hungary #130 → #127; points -67.72 → -67.72
- Grenada #131 → #128; points -67.83 → -67.83
- Lebanon #132 → #129; points -67.94 → -67.94
- Guatemala #133 → #130; points -67.99 → -67.99
- Tonga #134 → #131; points -68.15 → -68.15
- Côte d’Ivoire #135 → #132; points -68.16 → -68.16
- Kuwait #136 → #133; points -68.22 → -68.22
- The Gambia #137 → #134; points -68.46 → -68.46
- Lesotho #138 → #135; points -68.54 → -68.54
- Cuba #139 → #136; points -68.75 → -68.75
- El Salvador #140 → #137; points -68.95 → -68.95
- Timor-Leste #141 → #138; points -69.09 → -69.09
- Nicaragua #142 → #139; points -69.27 → -69.27
- Venezuela #143 → #140; points -69.40 → -69.40
- Saint Lucia #144 → #141; points -69.67 → -69.67
- Comoros #145 → #142; points -69.77 → -69.77
- São Tomé and Príncipe #146 → #143; points -70.26 → -70.26
- Greece #147 → #144; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Vanuatu #148 → #145; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Hong Kong #149 → #146; points -70.62 → -70.62
- Sri Lanka #150 → #147; points -70.85 → -70.85
- Uganda #151 → #148; points -71.17 → -71.17
- Nauru #152 → #149; points -71.28 → -71.28
- Romania #153 → #150; points -71.47 → -71.47
- Solomon Islands #154 → #151; points -71.64 → -71.64
- Morocco #155 → #152; points -72.08 → -72.08
- United States of America #156 → #153; points -72.80 → -72.80
- Mozambique #157 → #154; points -72.82 → -72.82
- Burkina Faso #158 → #155; points -73.07 → -73.07
- Western Sahara #159 → #156; points -73.29 → -73.29
- Egypt #160 → #157; points -73.57 → -73.57
- Marshall Islands #161 → #158; points -73.68 → -73.68
- Puerto Rico #162 → #159; points -74.42 → -74.42
- Zimbabwe #163 → #160; points -74.56 → -74.56
- Honduras #164 → #161; points -76.90 → -76.90
- Turkmenistan #165 → #162; points -76.99 → -76.99
- Libya #166 → #163; points -77.22 → -77.22
- Iran #167 → #164; points -78.37 → -78.37
- Nigeria #168 → #165; points -78.63 → -78.63
- Iraq #169 → #166; points -80.27 → -80.27
- Pakistan #170 → #167; points -80.46 → -80.46
- Tanzania #171 → #168; points -80.51 → -80.51
- Angola #172 → #169; points -80.62 → -80.62
- Mali #173 → #170; points -80.95 → -80.95
- Cameroon #174 → #171; points -81.23 → -81.23
- Ethiopia #175 → #172; points -81.64 → -81.64
- Guinea #176 → #173; points -81.75 → -81.75
- Papua New Guinea #177 → #174; points -82.18 → -82.18
- Chad #178 → #175; points -82.87 → -82.87
- DR Congo #179 → #176; points -83.57 → -83.57
- Eritrea #180 → #177; points -84.07 → -84.07
- Ukraine #181 → #178; points -84.24 → -84.24
- Syria #182 → #179; points -87.91 → -87.91
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea #183 → #180; points -88.20 → -88.20
- Myanmar #184 → #181; points -88.69 → -88.69
- Haiti #185 → #182; points -90.52 → -90.52
- Afghanistan #186 → #183; points -90.75 → -90.75
- Sudan #187 → #184; points -93.37 → -93.37
- Palestine #188 → #185; points -94.71 → -94.71
- Andorra #189 → #186
- Aruba #190 → #187
- Barbados #191 → #188
- Belize #192 → #189
- Benin #193 → #190
- Bhutan #194 → #191
- Botswana #195 → #192
- Brunei #196 → #193
- Burundi #197 → #194
- Central African Republic #198 → #195
- China #199 → #196
- Djibouti #200 → #197
- Equatorial Guinea #201 → #198
- Eswatini #202 → #199
- Falkland Islands #203 → #200
- Fiji #204 → #201
- Gabon #205 → #202
- Georgia #97 → #203; points -63.73 → -63.73
- Guinea-Bissau #206 → #204
- Italy #207 → #205
- Jamaica #208 → #206
- Japan #209 → #207
- Kosovo #210 → #208
- Kyrgyzstan #211 → #209
- Laos #212 → #210
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#211 → #210National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #211 to #210 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#211 → #210National score— → —
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Lithuania #49 → #213
Countries previously above that are no longer ranked (2)
- Kazakhstan Previously #120; no longer ranked in this snapshot
- Algeria Previously #125; no longer ranked in this snapshot
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#210 → #209National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
Held through 20 Oct 2026 · 16:49 GMT-0500; 1 identical observations condensed for display, all source records retained.
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #210 to #209 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#210 → #209National score— → —
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Senegal #113 → #229
Countries previously above that are no longer ranked (2)
- Kazakhstan Previously #120; no longer ranked in this snapshot
- Algeria Previously #125; no longer ranked in this snapshot
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#209 → #54National score-58.21 → -58.23
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
No additional field-by-field change record was found at this date; older missing details are not reconstructed.
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#54 → #57National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #54 to #63 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#54 → #63National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Positions first recorded above (not confirmed rank jumps) (9)
- Tokelau First recorded here at #2; earlier position unavailable
- San Marino First recorded here at #4; earlier position unavailable
- Falkland Islands First recorded here at #5; earlier position unavailable
- Liechtenstein First recorded here at #6; earlier position unavailable
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon First recorded here at #10; earlier position unavailable
- Andorra First recorded here at #14; earlier position unavailable
- Brunei First recorded here at #15; earlier position unavailable
- Italy First recorded here at #36; earlier position unavailable
- Maldives First recorded here at #51; earlier position unavailable
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #54 to #57 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#54 → #57National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Positions first recorded above (not confirmed rank jumps) (3)
- San Marino First recorded here at #3; earlier position unavailable
- Liechtenstein First recorded here at #4; earlier position unavailable
- Brunei First recorded here at #11; earlier position unavailable
Recorded rank movement.
Rank#57 → #64National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Peer identities were not stored for this older rank event; missing before/after rankings cannot be reconstructed.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #63 to #64 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#63 → #64National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that moved ahead of this country (1)
- Brazil #99 → #34; points -60.98 → -55.41
Every recorded change
Each archived event is preserved. Category details and sources begin from the first detailed country snapshot; older records remain visible without invented comparisons.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #63 to #64 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#63 → #64National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that moved ahead of this country (1)
- Brazil #99 → #34; points -60.98 → -55.41
Published evidence, observations or country data changed. The headline score did not materially change in this update.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #54 to #63 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#54 → #63National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Positions first recorded above (not confirmed rank jumps) (9)
- Tokelau First recorded here at #2; earlier position unavailable
- San Marino First recorded here at #4; earlier position unavailable
- Falkland Islands First recorded here at #5; earlier position unavailable
- Liechtenstein First recorded here at #6; earlier position unavailable
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon First recorded here at #10; earlier position unavailable
- Andorra First recorded here at #14; earlier position unavailable
- Brunei First recorded here at #15; earlier position unavailable
- Italy First recorded here at #36; earlier position unavailable
- Maldives First recorded here at #51; earlier position unavailable
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #54 to #57 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#54 → #57National score-58.23 → -58.23
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Positions first recorded above (not confirmed rank jumps) (3)
- San Marino First recorded here at #3; earlier position unavailable
- Liechtenstein First recorded here at #4; earlier position unavailable
- Brunei First recorded here at #11; earlier position unavailable
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #210 to #209 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#210 → #209National score— → —
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Senegal #113 → #229
Countries previously above that are no longer ranked (2)
- Kazakhstan Previously #120; no longer ranked in this snapshot
- Algeria Previously #125; no longer ranked in this snapshot
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #211 to #210 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#211 → #210National score— → —
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Lithuania #49 → #213
Countries previously above that are no longer ranked (2)
- Kazakhstan Previously #120; no longer ranked in this snapshot
- Algeria Previously #125; no longer ranked in this snapshot
Water & Sanitation Abundance changed from 49.25 to 51. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Water & Sanitation Abundance
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Reach (35%) | 75.00 | 80.00 |
Category point adjustment: +1.75 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure anno Category-relevant indicator: Basic drinking water service access. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction changed from 41.55 to 47.8. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 47.80 |
| Base category score | 41.55 | 47.80 |
| Capacity (25%) | 80.00 | 75.00 |
| Friction (25%) | -45.00 | -15.00 |
Category point adjustment: +6.25 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive c Category-relevant indicator: Intentional homicide rate — narrow safety proxy. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Health & Care Reach changed from 41.55 to 33.5. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Health & Care Reach
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 33.50 |
| Base category score | 41.55 | 33.50 |
| Reach (35%) | 68.00 | 45.00 |
Category point adjustment: -8.05 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality re Category-relevant indicator: Universal health coverage service index. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Energy & Household Capability changed from 49.25 to 51. Review the recorded rails, explanation and source records below.
Energy & Household Capability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Reach (35%) | 75.00 | 80.00 |
Category point adjustment: +1.75 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone. Category-relevant indicator: Access to electricity. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Money Gate (separate 20-point gate) supporting evidence, citations, notes or rails changed without changing the category total.
Money Gate (separate 20-point gate)
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 3.50 | 3.50 |
Category point adjustment: 0.00 category points
The evidence explanation changed; the category score stayed the same.
Updated reasoning
- Food
- The Finance Ministry budgets public free lunches for school pupils in grades 1–4 in 2026, a documented child-specific food route rather than unconditional household meals.
- Healthcare
- The national health service publishes patient copayments, some with exemptions. This is substantial public provision with remaining payment and access friction.
- Housing / Land
- The Ministry of Welfare reports expanded needs-tested housing benefits in 2026, covering eligible bills and rent rather than free housing or land for all.
- Transport
- Riga’s transit uses paid ticket categories, including 90-minute tickets, with concessions for specific residents rather than a universal fare-free baseline.
- Water / Energy
- Riga Water publishes metered service tariffs and national housing benefit provides conditional assistance with utility expenses. Household water and energy remain billed under ordinary access.
Earlier reasoning
- Food
- The Finance Ministry budgets public free lunches for school pupils in grades 1–4 in 2026, a documented child-specific food route rather than unconditional household meals.
- Housing / Land
- The Ministry of Welfare reports expanded needs-tested housing benefits in 2026, covering eligible bills and rent rather than free housing or land for all.
- Healthcare
- The national health service publishes patient copayments, some with exemptions. This is substantial public provision with remaining payment and access friction.
- Transport
- Riga’s transit uses paid ticket categories, including 90-minute tickets, with concessions for specific residents rather than a universal fare-free baseline.
- Water / Energy
- Riga Water publishes metered service tariffs and national housing benefit provides conditional assistance with utility expenses. Household water and energy remain billed under ordinary access.
Sources archived before (5)
Sources archived after the change (5)
Published evidence, observations or country data changed. The headline score did not materially change in this update.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #52 to #211 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#52 → #211National score-58.21 → —
Countries that moved ahead of this country (159)
- Portugal #53 → #52; points -58.28 → -58.28
- American Samoa #54 → #53; points -58.30 → -58.30
- United Kingdom #55 → #54; points -58.35 → -58.35
- Northern Mariana Islands #56 → #55; points -58.36 → -58.36
- France #57 → #56; points -58.45 → -58.45
- Bahrain #58 → #57; points -58.49 → -58.49
- New Caledonia #59 → #58; points -58.60 → -58.60
- Montserrat #60 → #59; points -58.79 → -58.79
- Cyprus #61 → #60; points -58.85 → -58.85
- Saudi Arabia #62 → #61; points -58.86 → -58.86
- U.S. Virgin Islands #63 → #62; points -59.10 → -59.10
- Bermuda #64 → #63; points -59.12 → -59.12
- Niue #66 → #64; points -59.51 → -59.51
- Saint Barthélemy #67 → #65; points -59.53 → -59.53
- Cook Islands #68 → #66; points -59.66 → -59.66
- Cayman Islands #69 → #67; points -59.84 → -59.84
- Iceland #70 → #68; points -59.87 → -59.87
- India #71 → #69; points -59.94 → -59.94
- French Guiana #72 → #70; points -60.08 → -60.08
- Antigua and Barbuda #73 → #71; points -60.19 → -60.19
- Guyana #74 → #72; points -60.33 → -60.33
- Palau #75 → #73; points -60.39 → -60.39
- Trinidad and Tobago #76 → #74; points -60.48 → -60.48
- Curaçao #77 → #75; points -60.49 → -60.49
- Bulgaria #78 → #76; points -60.74 → -60.74
- Samoa #79 → #77; points -60.90 → -60.90
- Brazil #80 → #78; points -60.98 → -60.98
- Armenia #81 → #79; points -61.05 → -61.05
- Philippines #82 → #80; points -61.47 → -61.47
- Dominican Republic #83 → #81; points -61.61 → -61.61
- Germany #84 → #82; points -61.73 → -61.73
- Peru #85 → #83; points -61.92 → -61.92
- Türkiye #86 → #84; points -62.08 → -62.08
- Paraguay #87 → #85; points -62.11 → -62.11
- Mexico #88 → #86; points -62.21 → -62.21
- Anguilla #89 → #87; points -62.28 → -62.28
- Bolivia #90 → #88; points -62.50 → -62.50
- Poland #91 → #89; points -62.64 → -62.64
- Cabo Verde #92 → #90; points -62.84 → -62.84
- Turks and Caicos Islands #93 → #91; points -62.93 → -62.93
- Belarus #94 → #92; points -63.08 → -63.08
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines #95 → #93; points -63.27 → -63.27
- British Virgin Islands #96 → #94; points -63.64 → -63.64
- Bosnia and Herzegovina #98 → #95; points -63.76 → -63.76
- South Africa #99 → #96; points -63.77 → -63.77
- Albania #100 → #97; points -63.80 → -63.80
- Sint Maarten #101 → #98; points -63.99 → -63.99
- Taiwan #102 → #99; points -64.04 → -64.04
- Finland #103 → #100; points -64.05 → -64.05
- Malaysia #104 → #101; points -64.10 → -64.10
- Czech Republic #105 → #102; points -64.16 → -64.16
- Mayotte #106 → #103; points -64.29 → -64.29
- Qatar #107 → #104; points -64.60 → -64.60
- Ecuador #108 → #105; points -64.78 → -64.78
- Panama #109 → #106; points -64.97 → -64.97
- Azerbaijan #110 → #107; points -65.05 → -65.05
- Tunisia #111 → #108; points -65.10 → -65.10
- Croatia #112 → #109; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Indonesia #113 → #110; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Saint Kitts and Nevis #114 → #111; points -65.71 → -65.71
- Estonia #115 → #112; points -65.95 → -65.95
- Zambia #116 → #113; points -65.97 → -65.97
- Nepal #117 → #114; points -65.98 → -65.98
- Jordan #118 → #115; points -66.22 → -66.22
- Senegal #119 → #116; points -66.29 → -66.29
- Kenya #120 → #117; points -66.31 → -66.31
- Dominica #121 → #118; points -66.51 → -66.51
- Ghana #122 → #119; points -66.84 → -66.84
- Cambodia #123 → #120; points -66.86 → -66.86
- Kiribati #124 → #121; points -66.91 → -66.91
- New Zealand #125 → #122; points -66.94 → -66.94
- Uzbekistan #126 → #123; points -67.20 → -67.20
- Tuvalu #127 → #124; points -67.30 → -67.30
- Federated States of Micronesia #128 → #125; points -67.46 → -67.46
- Bangladesh #129 → #126; points -67.58 → -67.58
- Hungary #130 → #127; points -67.72 → -67.72
- Grenada #131 → #128; points -67.83 → -67.83
- Lebanon #132 → #129; points -67.94 → -67.94
- Guatemala #133 → #130; points -67.99 → -67.99
- Tonga #134 → #131; points -68.15 → -68.15
- Côte d’Ivoire #135 → #132; points -68.16 → -68.16
- Kuwait #136 → #133; points -68.22 → -68.22
- The Gambia #137 → #134; points -68.46 → -68.46
- Lesotho #138 → #135; points -68.54 → -68.54
- Cuba #139 → #136; points -68.75 → -68.75
- El Salvador #140 → #137; points -68.95 → -68.95
- Timor-Leste #141 → #138; points -69.09 → -69.09
- Nicaragua #142 → #139; points -69.27 → -69.27
- Venezuela #143 → #140; points -69.40 → -69.40
- Saint Lucia #144 → #141; points -69.67 → -69.67
- Comoros #145 → #142; points -69.77 → -69.77
- São Tomé and Príncipe #146 → #143; points -70.26 → -70.26
- Greece #147 → #144; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Vanuatu #148 → #145; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Hong Kong #149 → #146; points -70.62 → -70.62
- Sri Lanka #150 → #147; points -70.85 → -70.85
- Uganda #151 → #148; points -71.17 → -71.17
- Nauru #152 → #149; points -71.28 → -71.28
- Romania #153 → #150; points -71.47 → -71.47
- Solomon Islands #154 → #151; points -71.64 → -71.64
- Morocco #155 → #152; points -72.08 → -72.08
- United States of America #156 → #153; points -72.80 → -72.80
- Mozambique #157 → #154; points -72.82 → -72.82
- Burkina Faso #158 → #155; points -73.07 → -73.07
- Western Sahara #159 → #156; points -73.29 → -73.29
- Egypt #160 → #157; points -73.57 → -73.57
- Marshall Islands #161 → #158; points -73.68 → -73.68
- Puerto Rico #162 → #159; points -74.42 → -74.42
- Zimbabwe #163 → #160; points -74.56 → -74.56
- Honduras #164 → #161; points -76.90 → -76.90
- Turkmenistan #165 → #162; points -76.99 → -76.99
- Libya #166 → #163; points -77.22 → -77.22
- Iran #167 → #164; points -78.37 → -78.37
- Nigeria #168 → #165; points -78.63 → -78.63
- Iraq #169 → #166; points -80.27 → -80.27
- Pakistan #170 → #167; points -80.46 → -80.46
- Tanzania #171 → #168; points -80.51 → -80.51
- Angola #172 → #169; points -80.62 → -80.62
- Mali #173 → #170; points -80.95 → -80.95
- Cameroon #174 → #171; points -81.23 → -81.23
- Ethiopia #175 → #172; points -81.64 → -81.64
- Guinea #176 → #173; points -81.75 → -81.75
- Papua New Guinea #177 → #174; points -82.18 → -82.18
- Chad #178 → #175; points -82.87 → -82.87
- DR Congo #179 → #176; points -83.57 → -83.57
- Eritrea #180 → #177; points -84.07 → -84.07
- Ukraine #181 → #178; points -84.24 → -84.24
- Syria #182 → #179; points -87.91 → -87.91
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea #183 → #180; points -88.20 → -88.20
- Myanmar #184 → #181; points -88.69 → -88.69
- Haiti #185 → #182; points -90.52 → -90.52
- Afghanistan #186 → #183; points -90.75 → -90.75
- Sudan #187 → #184; points -93.37 → -93.37
- Palestine #188 → #185; points -94.71 → -94.71
- Andorra #189 → #186
- Aruba #190 → #187
- Barbados #191 → #188
- Belize #192 → #189
- Benin #193 → #190
- Bhutan #194 → #191
- Botswana #195 → #192
- Brunei #196 → #193
- Burundi #197 → #194
- Central African Republic #198 → #195
- China #199 → #196
- Djibouti #200 → #197
- Equatorial Guinea #201 → #198
- Eswatini #202 → #199
- Falkland Islands #203 → #200
- Fiji #204 → #201
- Gabon #205 → #202
- Georgia #97 → #203; points -63.73 → -63.73
- Guinea-Bissau #206 → #204
- Italy #207 → #205
- Jamaica #208 → #206
- Japan #209 → #207
- Kosovo #210 → #208
- Kyrgyzstan #211 → #209
- Laos #212 → #210
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #212 to #211 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#212 → #211National score— → —
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Slovenia #64 → #232
Countries previously above that are no longer ranked (2)
- Kazakhstan Previously #120; no longer ranked in this snapshot
- Algeria Previously #125; no longer ranked in this snapshot
Pacorips source-specific correction of four previously patterned category assessments, with prior beleshky scores preserved in rank history. Direct Money Gate, remaining scored categories, dates of underlying observations and national coverage not overwritten. Signed points are authored readings, not source-reported percentages.
National points: -58.21 → —; Rank: #52 → #212
Energy & Household Capability
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Reach (35%) | 75.00 | 80.00 |
Category point adjustment: +1.75 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone. Category-relevant indicator: Access to electricity. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Energy is judged on connection, reliability, affordability and household capability rather than generation or export capacity alone.
Health & Care Reach
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 33.50 |
| Base category score | 41.55 | 33.50 |
| Reach (35%) | 68.00 | 45.00 |
Category point adjustment: -8.05 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality re Category-relevant indicator: Universal health coverage service index. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. The European Commission country review identifies weak performance on life expectancy, treatable mortality, unmet medical needs and health inequality relative to stronger EU peers. Health abundance is judged on actual care reach, financial protection, geographic access and service reliability rather than legal entitlement alone.
Justice, Safety & Institutional Friction
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 41.55 | 47.80 |
| Base category score | 41.55 | 47.80 |
| Capacity (25%) | 80.00 | 75.00 |
| Friction (25%) | -45.00 | -15.00 |
Category point adjustment: +6.25 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive c Category-relevant indicator: Intentional homicide rate — narrow safety proxy. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Justice is judged on safety, legal access, administrative friction, accessibility and whether ordinary people can resolve problems without prohibitive cost or delay.
Water & Sanitation Abundance
| Category field | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Published category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Base category score | 49.25 | 51.00 |
| Reach (35%) | 75.00 | 80.00 |
Category point adjustment: +1.75 category points
Recorded reasoning
Completed category-level audit. Original score and four rails retained; original summary: Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure anno Category-relevant indicator: Basic drinking water service access. The source is not evidence of universal free services; score is a TBF ordinal judgement. Evidence-year and subnational gaps are detailed in the attached audit.
Sources archived before (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Sources archived after the change (1)
Latvia is a high-income EU/Baltic country with strong digital and physical infrastructure and broad basic-service coverage. Health inequality and unmet need, housing and heating costs, demographic and regional gaps, and ongoing environmental/material-return challenges remain meaningful frictions. Water and sanitation are judged on safe household reach, continuity, quality, rural/urban distribution and affordability rather than infrastructure announcements alone.
Sources archived with this rescan (4)
Latvia, 2024: World Bank / IEA / SEforALL — access to electricity, 2024 records 100 in its published indicator. Population with electricity access; not a measure of free electricity, reliability, connection affordability or hours supplied. Pacorips has revised the category-specific capacity/reach/friction interpretation; numerical values are an authored TBF assessment on −100 to +100, not the source's percentage converted directly into points. No Direct Money Gate point is inferred from this source.
Latvia, 2024: WHO/UNICEF JMP — safely managed drinking water, 2024 records 97 in its published indicator. Population with safely managed drinking water; separate from no-payment, and from the broader at-least-basic series. Pacorips has revised the category-specific capacity/reach/friction interpretation; numerical values are an authored TBF assessment on −100 to +100, not the source's percentage converted directly into points. No Direct Money Gate point is inferred from this source.
Latvia, 2023: WHO / World Bank — UHC service coverage index, 2023 records 77 in its published indicator. Composite service coverage index 0–100, not fraction of population with comprehensive free care. Pacorips has revised the category-specific capacity/reach/friction interpretation; numerical values are an authored TBF assessment on −100 to +100, not the source's percentage converted directly into points. No Direct Money Gate point is inferred from this source.
Latvia, 2024: World Bank — Worldwide Governance Indicators rule-of-law score, 2024 records 75.7 in its published indicator. Perception-based rule of law scale 0–100; not a census of people receiving perfect justice. Pacorips has revised the category-specific capacity/reach/friction interpretation; numerical values are an authored TBF assessment on −100 to +100, not the source's percentage converted directly into points. No Direct Money Gate point is inferred from this source.
TBF Abundance rank moved down from #52 to #212 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#52 → #212National score-58.21 → —
Countries that moved ahead of this country (160)
- Portugal #53 → #52; points -58.28 → -58.28
- American Samoa #54 → #53; points -58.30 → -58.30
- United Kingdom #55 → #54; points -58.35 → -58.35
- Northern Mariana Islands #56 → #55; points -58.36 → -58.36
- France #57 → #56; points -58.45 → -58.45
- Bahrain #58 → #57; points -58.49 → -58.49
- New Caledonia #59 → #58; points -58.60 → -58.60
- Montserrat #60 → #59; points -58.79 → -58.79
- Cyprus #61 → #60; points -58.85 → -58.85
- Saudi Arabia #62 → #61; points -58.86 → -58.86
- U.S. Virgin Islands #63 → #62; points -59.10 → -59.10
- Bermuda #64 → #63; points -59.12 → -59.12
- Slovenia #65 → #64; points -59.14 → -59.14
- Niue #66 → #65; points -59.51 → -59.51
- Saint Barthélemy #67 → #66; points -59.53 → -59.53
- Cook Islands #68 → #67; points -59.66 → -59.66
- Cayman Islands #69 → #68; points -59.84 → -59.84
- Iceland #70 → #69; points -59.87 → -59.87
- India #71 → #70; points -59.94 → -59.94
- French Guiana #72 → #71; points -60.08 → -60.08
- Antigua and Barbuda #73 → #72; points -60.19 → -60.19
- Guyana #74 → #73; points -60.33 → -60.33
- Palau #75 → #74; points -60.39 → -60.39
- Trinidad and Tobago #76 → #75; points -60.48 → -60.48
- Curaçao #77 → #76; points -60.49 → -60.49
- Bulgaria #78 → #77; points -60.74 → -60.74
- Samoa #79 → #78; points -60.90 → -60.90
- Brazil #80 → #79; points -60.98 → -60.98
- Armenia #81 → #80; points -61.05 → -61.05
- Philippines #82 → #81; points -61.47 → -61.47
- Dominican Republic #83 → #82; points -61.61 → -61.61
- Germany #84 → #83; points -61.73 → -61.73
- Peru #85 → #84; points -61.92 → -61.92
- Türkiye #86 → #85; points -62.08 → -62.08
- Paraguay #87 → #86; points -62.11 → -62.11
- Mexico #88 → #87; points -62.21 → -62.21
- Anguilla #89 → #88; points -62.28 → -62.28
- Bolivia #90 → #89; points -62.50 → -62.50
- Poland #91 → #90; points -62.64 → -62.64
- Cabo Verde #92 → #91; points -62.84 → -62.84
- Turks and Caicos Islands #93 → #92; points -62.93 → -62.93
- Belarus #94 → #93; points -63.08 → -63.08
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines #95 → #94; points -63.27 → -63.27
- British Virgin Islands #96 → #95; points -63.64 → -63.64
- Georgia #97 → #96; points -63.73 → -63.73
- Bosnia and Herzegovina #98 → #97; points -63.76 → -63.76
- South Africa #99 → #98; points -63.77 → -63.77
- Albania #100 → #99; points -63.80 → -63.80
- Sint Maarten #101 → #100; points -63.99 → -63.99
- Taiwan #102 → #101; points -64.04 → -64.04
- Finland #103 → #102; points -64.05 → -64.05
- Malaysia #104 → #103; points -64.10 → -64.10
- Czech Republic #105 → #104; points -64.16 → -64.16
- Mayotte #106 → #105; points -64.29 → -64.29
- Qatar #107 → #106; points -64.60 → -64.60
- Ecuador #108 → #107; points -64.78 → -64.78
- Panama #109 → #108; points -64.97 → -64.97
- Azerbaijan #110 → #109; points -65.05 → -65.05
- Tunisia #111 → #110; points -65.10 → -65.10
- Croatia #112 → #111; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Indonesia #113 → #112; points -65.30 → -65.30
- Saint Kitts and Nevis #114 → #113; points -65.71 → -65.71
- Estonia #115 → #114; points -65.95 → -65.95
- Zambia #116 → #115; points -65.97 → -65.97
- Nepal #117 → #116; points -65.98 → -65.98
- Jordan #118 → #117; points -66.22 → -66.22
- Senegal #119 → #118; points -66.29 → -66.29
- Kenya #120 → #119; points -66.31 → -66.31
- Dominica #121 → #120; points -66.51 → -66.51
- Ghana #122 → #121; points -66.84 → -66.84
- Cambodia #123 → #122; points -66.86 → -66.86
- Kiribati #124 → #123; points -66.91 → -66.91
- New Zealand #125 → #124; points -66.94 → -66.94
- Uzbekistan #126 → #125; points -67.20 → -67.20
- Tuvalu #127 → #126; points -67.30 → -67.30
- Federated States of Micronesia #128 → #127; points -67.46 → -67.46
- Bangladesh #129 → #128; points -67.58 → -67.58
- Hungary #130 → #129; points -67.72 → -67.72
- Grenada #131 → #130; points -67.83 → -67.83
- Lebanon #132 → #131; points -67.94 → -67.94
- Guatemala #133 → #132; points -67.99 → -67.99
- Tonga #134 → #133; points -68.15 → -68.15
- Côte d’Ivoire #135 → #134; points -68.16 → -68.16
- Kuwait #136 → #135; points -68.22 → -68.22
- The Gambia #137 → #136; points -68.46 → -68.46
- Lesotho #138 → #137; points -68.54 → -68.54
- Cuba #139 → #138; points -68.75 → -68.75
- El Salvador #140 → #139; points -68.95 → -68.95
- Timor-Leste #141 → #140; points -69.09 → -69.09
- Nicaragua #142 → #141; points -69.27 → -69.27
- Venezuela #143 → #142; points -69.40 → -69.40
- Saint Lucia #144 → #143; points -69.67 → -69.67
- Comoros #145 → #144; points -69.77 → -69.77
- São Tomé and Príncipe #146 → #145; points -70.26 → -70.26
- Greece #147 → #146; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Vanuatu #148 → #147; points -70.36 → -70.36
- Hong Kong #149 → #148; points -70.62 → -70.62
- Sri Lanka #150 → #149; points -70.85 → -70.85
- Uganda #151 → #150; points -71.17 → -71.17
- Nauru #152 → #151; points -71.28 → -71.28
- Romania #153 → #152; points -71.47 → -71.47
- Solomon Islands #154 → #153; points -71.64 → -71.64
- Morocco #155 → #154; points -72.08 → -72.08
- United States of America #156 → #155; points -72.80 → -72.80
- Mozambique #157 → #156; points -72.82 → -72.82
- Burkina Faso #158 → #157; points -73.07 → -73.07
- Western Sahara #159 → #158; points -73.29 → -73.29
- Egypt #160 → #159; points -73.57 → -73.57
- Marshall Islands #161 → #160; points -73.68 → -73.68
- Puerto Rico #162 → #161; points -74.42 → -74.42
- Zimbabwe #163 → #162; points -74.56 → -74.56
- Honduras #164 → #163; points -76.90 → -76.90
- Turkmenistan #165 → #164; points -76.99 → -76.99
- Libya #166 → #165; points -77.22 → -77.22
- Iran #167 → #166; points -78.37 → -78.37
- Nigeria #168 → #167; points -78.63 → -78.63
- Iraq #169 → #168; points -80.27 → -80.27
- Pakistan #170 → #169; points -80.46 → -80.46
- Tanzania #171 → #170; points -80.51 → -80.51
- Angola #172 → #171; points -80.62 → -80.62
- Mali #173 → #172; points -80.95 → -80.95
- Cameroon #174 → #173; points -81.23 → -81.23
- Ethiopia #175 → #174; points -81.64 → -81.64
- Guinea #176 → #175; points -81.75 → -81.75
- Papua New Guinea #177 → #176; points -82.18 → -82.18
- Chad #178 → #177; points -82.87 → -82.87
- DR Congo #179 → #178; points -83.57 → -83.57
- Eritrea #180 → #179; points -84.07 → -84.07
- Ukraine #181 → #180; points -84.24 → -84.24
- Syria #182 → #181; points -87.91 → -87.91
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea #183 → #182; points -88.20 → -88.20
- Myanmar #184 → #183; points -88.69 → -88.69
- Haiti #185 → #184; points -90.52 → -90.52
- Afghanistan #186 → #185; points -90.75 → -90.75
- Sudan #187 → #186; points -93.37 → -93.37
- Palestine #188 → #187; points -94.71 → -94.71
- Andorra #189 → #188
- Aruba #190 → #189
- Barbados #191 → #190
- Belize #192 → #191
- Benin #193 → #192
- Bhutan #194 → #193
- Botswana #195 → #194
- Brunei #196 → #195
- Burundi #197 → #196
- Central African Republic #198 → #197
- China #199 → #198
- Djibouti #200 → #199
- Equatorial Guinea #201 → #200
- Eswatini #202 → #201
- Falkland Islands #203 → #202
- Fiji #204 → #203
- Gabon #205 → #204
- Guinea-Bissau #206 → #205
- Italy #207 → #206
- Jamaica #208 → #207
- Japan #209 → #208
- Kosovo #210 → #209
- Kyrgyzstan #211 → #210
- Laos #212 → #211
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #53 to #52 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#53 → #52National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Serbia #52 → #231
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #53 to #52 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#53 → #52National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Serbia #52 → #231
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #54 to #53 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#54 → #53National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Andorra #9 → #196; points -49.97 → -49.97
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #55 to #54 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#55 → #54National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Maldives #44 → #221
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #55 to #54 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#55 → #54National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Maldives #44 → #221
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #56 to #55 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#56 → #55National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Montenegro #48 → #227
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #56 to #55 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#56 → #55National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Montenegro #48 → #227; points -57.74 → -57.74
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #57 to #56 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#57 → #56National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon #6 → #235
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #58 to #57 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#58 → #57National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Liechtenstein #3 → #223; points -48.73 → -48.73
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #59 to #58 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#59 → #58National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Falkland Islands #3 → #217
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #60 to #59 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#60 → #59National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- San Marino #3 → #236
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #61 to #59 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#61 → #59National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (2)
- San Marino #4 → #236; points -47.91 → -47.91
- Tokelau #2 → #241
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #61 to #60 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#61 → #60National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Tokelau #2 → #241
TBF Abundance rank moved up from #62 to #61 as the published ranking changed. The country-data update clock did not move unless its own dataset also changed.
Rank#62 → #61National score-58.21 → -58.21
Rank moved while this country’s points stayed unchanged.
Countries that fell below this country (1)
- Brunei #15 → #220; points -50.29 → -50.29
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