Where is the demand?
Start with the evidence.

Import demand gets half the weight because the first question is where goods and services are being bought from abroad. Growth and price stability each get a quarter to add momentum and operating context. These are transparent NDS editorial choices, not estimated causal or predictive weights.

Market size is a starting point. Large import totals can include re-exports and do not show which buyers need your product. Commercial services omit government services not included elsewhere, so this sum is not the full balance-of-payments import total. Growth can reflect a rebound after a weak year.

Price stability is a simple rule. Distance from zero treats inflation and deflation symmetrically. It is not a universal inflation target, a measure of the cost of living, or a forecast of currency movements.

Find a route to market. Check industry demand, tariffs, product rules, costs, and qualified partners. Pair these facts with diplomacy networks, city relationships, and community evidence. Those connections provide a route for follow-up; they do not receive an invented score uplift.

This is an NDS calculation from World Bank inputs, not a World Bank ranking. Calculation checks verify the release; it has not been independently certified. The wider six-pillar Commercial Diplomacy Index and partnership performance measures have separate purposes.

Prepared from the supplied files on October 23, 2026. The files do not state a common download date. This is not a live API refresh. All scoring inputs come from that one bulk release, without filling gaps from a different year or API vintage. The existing Country Readiness V1 uses its own dated API snapshot and remains a separate score.

WDI country records with a nonblank region define the eligible reporting-economy set. Aggregate groups and “Not classified” are excluded. There is no population cutoff or selected-country list. No carry-forward, missing-as-zero rule, or country-specific weight change is used.

Newer monthly and quarterly observations come from the supplied Global Economic Monitor workbooks. They keep their individual periods, units, and seasonal adjustments. Year-over-year comparisons use the same month or quarter a year earlier and a positive baseline. The CPI trend is already a year-over-year percentage. Annual GEM rows, alternative adjustment versions, stock indices, and the unresolved reserves units do not enter this score.

Full WDI definitions, methodology, limitations, country notes, and available footnotes are preserved in the input download. Each source file has a SHA-256 hash. A source refresh or method change requires a versioned rebuild. These pages do not claim a live data connection.