Bloch Index
Global Country Reputation Index

Every country, scored on the evidence.

The Bloch Index attempts to track and measure country performance across a number of key performance indicators. Each country is given a reputation score from 0 to 100, built from open data across seven pillars: economy, governance, health, environment, education, society and credit rating. We strive to improve the index as we add more data points and collate more data.

The Bloch Index is a not-for-profit organisation. We take no funding from governments or companies, sell nothing and carry no advertising. The scores are built from open data and the method is published in full, so anyone can check our working.

If we get it wrong, let us know!

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The seven pillars

Economy18%Inflation, unemployment, GDP per head, growth, government debt
Governance18%Rule of law, control of corruption, voice and accountability, government effectiveness
Credit rating15%A rating from AAA to D derived from debt, deficits, reserves, inflation, growth and bond yields
Health14%Life expectancy, child mortality, WHO health indicators
Environment13%Renewable electricity, CO₂ per head on a consumption basis (imports counted, exports excluded)
Education11%Secondary and tertiary enrolment
Society11%Homicide rate, electricity access, internet use

For each measure every country is ranked against every other and given a percentile; pillar scores are the average of their measures, and the overall score combines the pillars with the weights above. Sources are open: World Bank, WHO, OECD, the Global Carbon Project, the FATF list, the Global Organized Crime Index, Reporters Without Borders and FRED bond yields. Click any country on the map for its full breakdown.

Why "Bloch"

The index is named after Marc Bloch (1886–1944), the French historian and resistance fighter who gave his life fighting for his country's freedom.

Keenly aware of the dangers that fake history presents, he insisted that the past be reconstructed from evidence, compared across societies, and never taken on trust. With Lucien Febvre he founded the Annales school, which turned history away from kings and battles towards the measurable lives of whole populations: prices, harvests, land, disease, belief. His Feudal Society and the unfinished Historian's Craft are still read for that method.

On 8 March 1944 the Gestapo arrested Marc. He was tortured and, on 16 June 1944, shot with other prisoners in a field at Saint-Didier-de-Formans, ten days after the Normandy landings.

In June 2026 France gave him a place in the Panthéon in Paris, alongside Marie Curie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Voltaire. His remains stay in the family grave at Le Bourg-d'Hem, as he wished, and the Panthéon holds a cenotaph in his name. Definitely worth a visit!

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