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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.

43
55
Demographics
25
Resources
36
Stability
97
Education
41
Technology
6
Geopolitics
🇻🇪Venezuela
Overall Score
44
Save Difficulty
Very 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

4244
Economy 3537
Governance 2527
Quality of Life 8180
Innovation 3541
Stability 3436

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?

31
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
62
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
38
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threats

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Leadership

Current
Delcy Rodriguez
President · 2026–present
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Former leaders
Simón BolívarPresident · 1810–1830
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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

Energy Superpower

High-tier oil or natural gas reserves/production.

Fragile State

Weak governance combined with low political stability.

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

Resilience

38
Pandemic54

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis39

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict23

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster35

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

25.55
Early StageGlobal rank #145 / 195
Policy Capacity
16
Governance
20
AI Infrastructure
40
Public Sector Adoption
27
Development & Diffusion
13
Resilience
38

AI Strengths

    What this country is ready for

    AI Gaps

    • Policy Capacity
    • Development & Diffusion

    What may hold it back

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

    Nation Profile

    Geography

    Area
    882,050 km²
    Population
    28.4M
    Density
    32.2/km²
    Coastline
    Coastal access

    Political System

    Government Type
    Federal Presidential Republic
    Regime (derived)
    Authoritarian
    Elections
    Limited/contested elections

    Main Industries

    OilMining

    Energy

    🟢Oil
    Natural Gas
    Coal
    Nuclear
    Hydropower
    Solar
    Wind

    Strategic Resources

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

    Food Capacity

    Arable Land
    32.9%
    Food Exports
    17
    Self-Sufficiency
    29

    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

    Global Influence

    Diplomatic Relations
    30
    Governance Score
    19
    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

    21
    Active Personnel
    343K
    Reserve Personnel
    Tanks
    282
    Aircraft
    224
    Naval Assets
    41
    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

    37
    ▲ Key driverUnemployment (5.3%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragInflation (Annual) (254.9%)· as of 2016

    Growth

    Inflation

    Fiscal Health

    Labor Market

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    Governance

    27
    ▲ Key driverRegulatory Quality (24.8)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragCorruption Control (15.7)· as of 2024

    Government Effectiveness

    Rule of Law

    Dispute Resolution

    Corruption

    Click a metric with historical data to plot it. Up to 3 at once; oldest is replaced when a 4th is added.

    Quality of Life

    80
    ▲ Key driverUniversity Graduation (78.3%)· as of 2009
    ▼ Key dragLife Expectancy (72.673 years)· as of 2024

    Safety

    Healthcare

    Education

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    Innovation

    41
    ▲ Key driverDigital Services Adoption (87.3%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPatents (3.379622068833537 per million)· as of 2017

    Tech

    Connectivity

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    Stability

    36
    ▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (36.2)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (36.2)· 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