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Strategic Position Score

How well-positioned is this nation for the next 10 years — combining demographics, resources, stability, education, technology, and geopolitics.

46
36
Demographics
32
Resources
63
Stability
87
Education
46
Technology
15
Geopolitics
🇷🇸Serbia
Overall Score
60
Save Difficulty
Hard

Key driver/drag compare this nation's own metrics against each other, not a trend over time. Metrics marked live are fetched from the World Bank; derived, curated, and beta-estimated values are labeled throughout.

Global Media Signal

Media attention and tone history are not available for this country yet.

Market Pulse

Equity, currency & commodity signals

No market data available for this country yet.

Global regime:Dollar Pressure

Global markets are showing dollar-pressure signals as gold has outpaced oil.

National Momentum

6060
Economy 4146
Governance 5753
Quality of Life 9590
Innovation 4946
Stability 5863

Category deltas are illustrative baselines. Real historical data for individual metrics is shown in the charts within each category section below.

Opportunity Index

If you had to put your money somewhere — open a business, emigrate, or invest — where would this nation rank?

56
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
79
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
50
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threats

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Leadership

Current
Aleksandar Vučić
President · 2017–present
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LLM Insights

Predictive Analytics
Transition Risk Prediction

Forecasts how smoothly a leadership or policy transition would go, based on institutional stability and current momentum.

Resilience baselineMomentum trendGovernance scoreCrisis history
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🛡Geopolitical Risk Score

Ongoing risk signal blending external threats, alliance exposure, and shock sensitivity.

Active threatsBloc exposureShock scenariosDefense posture
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📉Stability Erosion Detection

Surfaces gradual drift across categories that wouldn't trip a hard alert on its own.

Category driftMomentum deltasQuality-of-life trendFiscal trend
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🏛Institutional Bottleneck Mapping

Identifies where governance gaps or reform friction are slowing this nation's progress.

Reform difficultyGovernance scoreRisk countLegacy constraints
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🤝Strategic Opportunity Detection

Recommends where this nation has the most upside, based on its own opportunity index.

Opportunity indexAsset strengthsUntapped verticalsBloc adjacency
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Policy Gap Detection

Flags policy or structural gaps that could expose this nation to compliance, fiscal, or reputational risk.

Threat countRegime constraintsFiscal exposureTreaty coverage
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Insights are derived from this nation's own resilience, momentum, SWOT, and opportunity data — not a live model call.

Archetypes

Agricultural Exporter

Agriculture-linked industries with strong food export capacity.

Archetypes are derived automatically from this nation's industries, resources, military, and category scores — not hand-assigned.

Resilience

52
Pandemic65

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis43

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict49

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster49

Fiscal health, food self-sufficiency, government effectiveness

Shock-response scores derived from this nation's own metrics (healthcare, fiscal health, military, food self-sufficiency, etc.), not from any actual crisis event.

AI Readiness

65.92
AdvancedGlobal rank #40 / 195
Policy Capacity
100
Governance
79
AI Infrastructure
53
Public Sector Adoption
84
Development & Diffusion
36
Resilience
44

AI Strengths

  • Policy Capacity
  • Public Sector Adoption

What this country is ready for

AI Gaps

  • Resilience
  • Development & Diffusion

What may hold it back

Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 · 6 pillars · 14 dimensions · 69 indicators

Nation Profile

Geography

Area
84,090 km²
Population
6.6M
Density
78.3/km²
Coastline
Landlocked

Political System

Government Type
Parliamentary Republic
Regime (derived)
Hybrid
Elections
Multi-party elections

Main Industries

AgricultureManufacturingMining

Energy

🟡Oil
Natural Gas
Coal
🟡Nuclear
Hydropower
🟡Solar
🟡Wind

Strategic Resources

Lithium
Rare Earths
Copper
Iron
Gold
Silver
🟡Fresh Water

Food Capacity

Arable Land
17.6%
Food Exports
81
Self-Sufficiency
57

Industries and government type are best-effort curated facts. Energy/resource tiers, food capacity, and military figures are curated estimates. Area and population are sourced from World Bank (periodically refreshed).

Live Situation

No recent news events tracked for this country yet.

Global Influence

Diplomatic Relations
86
Governance Score
48
Share of Tracked GDP
0.1%

Bloc membership: curated fact. Diplomatic relations: bilateral partner count via Wikidata. Governance Score: World Bank WGI composite (effectiveness, anti-corruption, rule of law), scaled 0–100. "Share of Tracked GDP" is this nation's estimated GDP as a share of the 203 nations in this dataset — not a true world-GDP share.

Military

54
Active Personnel
32K
Reserve Personnel
Tanks
242
Aircraft
115
Naval Assets
4
Aircraft Carriers
0
Overseas Bases
Nuclear Weapons
No

Personnel from World Bank / IISS. Equipment (tanks, aircraft, naval) from GlobalFirepower. Nuclear status and carrier counts are verified public record. Overseas bases are estimates.

Economy

46
▲ Key driverUnemployment (7.2%)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragGDP per Capita ($13,679)· as of 2024

Growth

Inflation

Fiscal Health

Labor Market

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Governance

53
▲ Key driverTime to Open a Business (7 days)· as of 2019-12-31
▼ Key dragCorruption Control (36.5)· as of 2024

Government Effectiveness

Rule of Law

Dispute Resolution

Corruption

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Quality of Life

90
▲ Key driverUniversity Graduation (70.6%)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragPISA Score (457.5)· as of 2020

Safety

Healthcare

Education

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Innovation

46
▲ Key driverInternet Penetration (87.7%)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragPatents (20.952023509992294 per million)· as of 2021

Tech

Connectivity

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Stability

63
▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (63.0)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (63.0)· as of 2024

Political Stability

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Historical Trends

World Bank
Data coverage: 27 live·2 derived·0 curatedLast refreshed: Jul 4, 2026Methodology: Reconstructable