Resilience rankings and trajectories of world's countries

Using an eight-dimensional indicator index, we evaluate the trajectories of resilience 160 countries over 20 years. Our highly-granular analysis current state world shows what must happen to control climate change and switch from quantitative qualitative growth. Assessing a country is complex task prone opacity subjectivity. The challenge strike balance between Earth's biophysical limits socioeconomic models designed ignore them. Here propose index composed eight indicators status (GDP HDI), natural resources population (arable land water per capita), energy (supply renewables), environmental impacts (greenhouse gas emissions material footprint). We show that have improved, while been depleting worsening. need reduce footprint 1.5-fold. Average CO 2 capita drop by order magnitude. Furthermore, growth political instability seem undermine score country. • Evaluation global in way Identification profiles most least resilient Assessment how inevitable biases depend on approaches evaluating Analysis 20-year trends for selected paths towards sustainable development