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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.

29
80
Demographics
27
Resources
40
Stability
14
Education
1
Technology
12
Geopolitics
🇸🇸South Sudan
Overall Score
27
Save Difficulty
Legendary

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.

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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ⓘ

▲ 26 → 27
Economy▼ 34 → 29
Governance▲ 28 → 33
Quality of Life▲ 30 → 34
Innovation▼ 4 → 1
Stability▲ 34 → 40

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?

20
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
36
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
22
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threatsⓘ

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Leadershipⓘ

Current
Salva Kiir Mayardit
President · 2011–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.

Resilienceⓘ

39
Pandemic30

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis41

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict24

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster59

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ⓘ

10.84
Early StageGlobal rank #194 / 195
Policy Capacity
0
Governance
5
AI Infrastructure
24
Public Sector Adoption
2
Development & Diffusion
11
Resilience
23

AI Strengths

    What this country is ready for

    AI Gaps

    • ▼ Public Sector Adoption
    • ▼ Policy Capacity

    What may hold it back

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

    Nation Profileⓘ

    Geography

    Area
    631,930 km²
    Population
    11.9M
    Density
    18.9/km²
    Coastline
    Landlocked

    Political System

    Government Type
    Presidential Republic
    Regime (derived)
    Authoritarian
    Elections
    Transitional (delayed elections)

    Main Industries

    Oil

    Energy

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

    Strategic Resources

    ⚪Lithium
    🟡Rare Earths
    ⚪Copper
    ⚪Iron
    🟡Gold
    ⚪Silver
    ⚪Fresh Water

    Food Capacity

    Arable Land
    37.5%
    Food Exports
    51
    Self-Sufficiency
    87

    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ⓘ

    AU
    Diplomatic Relations
    14
    Governance Score
    13
    Share of Tracked GDP
    0%

    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ⓘ

    19
    Active Personnel
    53K
    Reserve Personnel
    —
    Tanks
    122
    Aircraft
    19
    Naval Assets
    3
    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ⓘ

    29
    ▲ Key driverLabor Participation (73.4%)· as of 2023
    ▼ Key dragGDP Growth (-10.8%)· as of 2015

    Growth

    Inflation

    Fiscal Health

    Labor Market

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    Governanceⓘ

    33
    ▲ Key driverTime to Open a Business (13 days)· as of 2019-12-31
    ▼ Key dragCorruption Control (6.1)· as of 2024

    Government Effectiveness

    Rule of Law

    Dispute Resolution

    Corruption

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    Quality of Lifeⓘ

    34
    ▲ Key driverHomicide Rate (13.9825812737537 per 100k)· as of 2012
    ▼ Key dragInfant Mortality (71.9 per 1,000)· as of 2024

    Safety

    Healthcare

    Education

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    Innovationⓘ

    1
    ▲ Key driverNew Business Rate (0.303282739242828 per 1k)· as of 2016
    ▼ Key dragInternet Penetration (6.7%)· as of 2019

    Tech

    Connectivity

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    Stabilityⓘ

    40
    ▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (40.4)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (40.4)· 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