A world map of sovereign credibility — and an honest grey where the data runs out

Quantamentry — the new home-page and /global choropleth, and why 'insufficient data' is a colour.

Until now the fastest way to read our data was a ranked list. Lists are precise, but they hide geography — you can't see at a glance that a region is collectively under stress, or that a whole band of the map is missing. So we built the thing a list can't be: an interactive world choropleth, live now on the home page and on quantamentry.com/global. Every scored country is shaded by its 0–100 composite credibility score. Hover a country for its number; click through to its full page.

What the map shows

The composite runs 0–100, higher is better, and the map colours it as a diverging scale that pivots at the midpoint: deeper green is stronger credibility, red is weaker, with graduated bands in between. It is the same seven-dimension composite that sits behind every country page — credibility gap, behind-the-curve, communication, geopolitical, growth, liquidity, and governance — rendered as one picture of the whole scored world instead of a table you scroll.

There is no map library and no client-side JavaScript behind it: it is a server-rendered SVG, one path per country, coloured on each request from the latest scores. That keeps it fast, and it means the map is exactly as current as the scores themselves.

Why grey is a first-class colour

Here is the part we care most about. Not every country on earth has enough public data to score honestly, and the map does not pretend otherwise. Countries we don't yet cover are filled a plain grey — an explicit "insufficient data" state, sitting in the legend as its own entry right next to the score bands.

That is a deliberate choice, not an oversight. It would be trivial to interpolate a colour for every landmass and hand you a map with no holes in it. It would also be dishonest — you would be looking at numbers we made up for places where the underlying series don't exist. We would rather show you exactly where the data runs out than paint over the gap. A grey country is a promise that everything coloured is real.

How to read it

• A green cluster is a region where anchored, credible regimes dominate — the composite is high across neighbours.
• A red patch flags where credibility is weak: inflation far from target, a policy rate behind the curve, or a collapsed dimension dragging the blend down.
• Grey means we don't have enough covered dimensions to publish a number we'd stand behind. It is not a score of zero and not a judgement — it is the absence of data, marked as such.

The map is a starting point, not the destination. It is built to be clicked: land on a country and you get the full breakdown — all seven dimensions, the 90-day trend, peer context within its region, and the per-indicator provenance behind each number.

See it live

The choropleth is on the home page and on quantamentry.com/global, where it sits alongside the global-context gauges — volatility, financial conditions, commodities, inflation expectations, and the shipping-chokepoint stress board — that every country score is read against.

To keep an eye on the countries that matter to you, Create a free account — watch 3 countries. Free, and it takes about a minute.

The map visualizes our 0–100 composite scores, built entirely on free public data (World Bank, IMF, BIS, FRED, OECD, ILO, GDELT, European Central Bank). Base map: Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas.

— Quantamentry, July 28, 2026