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Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson — Prime Minister, Iceland | NationsHelm
Diff-Adjusted (Easy)76ⓘDifficulty-Adjusted Score— this leader's Overall scaled by their nation's Governing Difficulty tier (Easy). It rewards strong results in structurally constrained states and applies a modest discount in high-capacity ones.
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland, is rated 76 (upper tier) on NationsHelm's Leadership scale.
The data & sources
The 76 rating is a derived blend of Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson's leadership dimensions, each computed from sourced public inputs — none estimated. Diplomatic Signal — no country-level data; shown as "No data" rather than inferred. Governing-stability conditions score 80/100, renormalised over WGI, V-Dem, UCDP and the Fragile States Index.
The risk read
For country-risk purposes, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson's tenure reads as broadly stable: governing-stability conditions score 80/100. Crisis exposure 6/100 (Minimal exposure); response untested. For the full opportunity, market-pulse and resilience read, see Iceland's nation page.
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is a former Prime Minister of Iceland.
How is Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson rated on NationsHelm?
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson holds a Leadership Rating of 76 out of 100 (strong), based on peak-career form. It is a derived blend of sourced leadership dimensions — governance, communication, diplomacy and others — never an estimate.
Data coverage:112 live·72 derived·1 authored·15 beta|Last refreshed: Jul 15, 2026|Methodology:Reconstructable|Cite:How to cite
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SourceWorld Bank + derived
MethodWeighted average
ConfMedium
✓ Reconstructable
ⓘLeadership Rating is a weighted average of 9 dimensions. Five use live World Bank indicators; the rest are derived from sourced signals (WIPO/Oxford/UNESCO, GDELT, World Bank + UCDP, survey data) where coverage exists. Diplomacy has no source yet, and anything unsourced shows as no data. Political position is V-Dem V-Party expert coding. Full weights on the Methodology page.
Generating…
Leadership conditions
Generating…
Current challenges
Politics
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Crisis Response
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Vision
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Communication
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Institutional Integrity
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Defense
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Source: World Bank + derived·Method: Mixed·✓ ReconstructableⓘGovernance, Economy and Politics use live World Bank / WGI indicators. Institutional Integrity (V-Dem), Vision (WIPO/Oxford/UNESCO), Defense (real force counts), Crisis Response (World Bank + UCDP + WGI), Communication (GDELT) and Diplomacy (the Diplomatic Signal) are sourced or derived signals. Any dimension without a sourced signal shows as no data. Full model on the Methodology page.
Country scores are blended with live World Bank data where available. Difficulty reflects the structural challenge of governing this nation — not the leader's individual performance.
Source: World Bank·Method: Unweighted average·✓ ReconstructableⓘCountry scores are the unweighted average of scored World Bank indicators — the same model used on the nation's own page. Difficulty reflects structural constraints on governing this nation, independent of the current leader, and is used to compute the Difficulty-Adjusted Score.
Leadership Archetype
No data
No archetype yet — not enough sourced stats to classify one. The archetype is derived from the leadership stat profile; it populates once enough dimensions are sourced.
Crisis
Exposure
6/ 100
Minimal exposure
Response
Untested
Untested
Low confidence · no major shock in mandate
Worst year (2016) — shock drivers
Economic contraction0
Political-stability decline34
Each is a global percentile: how this year's shock compares to every country-year on record. Disaster shocks are not yet sourced (no open-licensed annual series).
Sourced from 5 mandate-years (2013–2017), 2 of 4 shock components present.
SourceWorld Bank GDP + UCDP deaths (annual + Candidate GED) + WGI stabilityMethodCountry-year shock severity · peer-relative damageConfLow✓ ReconstructableⓘCrisis Exposure measures how severely a leader was tested — a peak-biased aggregate of per-year shock severity (conflict intensity, economic contraction and political-stability decline vs. recent normal) over the mandate. It is context, not a verdict: high exposure is neither good nor bad on its own. Crisis Response measures how the country fared during its genuine crisis years relative to comparable crisis episodes worldwide — country-years hit with the same shock severity. Higher = less national damage than peers at that severity. Leaders who never faced a major shock are marked Untested rather than rewarded. Per country-year, real WB/UCDP/WGI shocks are winsorised and percentile-ranked into a ShockSeverity; Exposure is the peak-biased mandate aggregate. Crisis years (severity ≥ 60) score Response = 100 − damage percentile among comparable-severity crises worldwide, then severity-weighted over the mandate. Untested = no major shock (never rewarded). Absent components are reweighted, never filled.
Strengths & Weaknesses
No data
No ranked leadership dimensions yet. Strengths and weaknesses are ranked from the leadership radar — they populate once enough dimensions are sourced.
Political Legacy
Legacy Rating
76
Assessment
Lasting
Years Served
4
Peak Strengths
No dimension scored 70 or above.
Notable Limitations
No dimension scored below 70 — no notable limitations on record.
