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Add context as you learn.
Research priority = the published Global Consumer Opportunity score. This edition needs only the released score, country, U.S. market, and source release. All 69 published leads can be explored now.
Community Bridge evidence appears beside each lead. City Population, Country Conversion, and Upstream Match Strength are optional context. They do not block this edition, and we do not add them to G again. G already contains upstream conversion, community, and affinity signals.
Higher G scores appear first. Equal scores share a priority rank; source lead IDs keep their original meaning. This identifies country-to-U.S.-market research priorities. It does not assign every foreign city a compatibility score or measure an existing partnership’s performance.
The earlier five-component international-city model remains available as a separate method. A new global city ranking can follow its own revised definition without holding back this research release.
Download the research-priority method · JSON ↗Understand the question.
A percentile places a country’s underlying measure within a defined comparison group. The underlying meaning of “conversion” must be clear before the number is used to guide a decision.
Why it matters
A familiar business word can hide several meanings. Readers need to know whether a measure describes interest, a modeled signal, a completed action, or something else.
What did the number actually measure?
Imagine a report says a country is in a high percentile for conversion. You might read that as completed sales. The source may instead describe an earlier research signal. Ask what changed, what was counted, and who was compared. The name of a measure should help you understand its meaning.
The current release preserves the source percentile so you can inspect the evidence used in the Sister City research. Its connected export does not establish a complete standalone definition of conversion. Use the percentile alongside the other components, and seek direct evidence of orders, introductions, or projects before describing a business result.
Three steps you can take
- Read the published method and find the original source field.
- Ask for the underlying event, comparison group, and observation period before interpreting a percentile as performance.
- Use the four business questions to identify evidence that matters for your own decision.
Read the source: National Data System: research and methods. This reference explains the source or research context; the inventory figures below come from the reviewed NDS package.
Know what you are looking at.
- Symbol
- C
- Current treatment
- Original published values retained
- International-city model weight
- 15%
How the measure is used
The website retains the C values in the released country-to-market lead table. It does not infer that they represent sales or completed business deals.
A new calculation must define the underlying conversion measure, eligible countries, period, source values, and percentile method.
Review whether C adds useful information beyond G and B. Removing it from a revised model requires a new version and a clear explanation.
Available results and rankings
- The published source C value for each of the 69 leads is available in the evidence table and downloads.
Inspect all 69 published component values
Original lead order is retained. This is not a new ranking by this component. Observation periods are not separately established by this export; October 14, 2026 identifies its source release.
| Source lead order | Country | U.S. market | Component value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AustraliaAUS | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 35620 | 99.96 |
| 2 | ChinaCHN | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 35620 | 99.96 |
| 3 | IndiaIND | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 20700 | 95.19 |
| 4 | MexicoMEX | McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TXCBSA 32580 | 99.08 |
| 5 | IndiaIND | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CACBSA 41940 | 87.87 |
| 6 | MexicoMEX | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CACBSA 31080 | 99.83 |
| 7 | MexicoMEX | El Paso, TXCBSA 21340 | 99.16 |
| 8 | MexicoMEX | Brownsville-Harlingen, TXCBSA 15180 | 98.29 |
| 9 | MexicoMEX | El Centro, CACBSA 41740 | 96.61 |
| 10 | BrazilBRA | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 35620 | 99.96 |
| 11 | JapanJPN | Urban Honolulu, HICBSA 46520 | 98.91 |
| 12 | IndiaIND | Raleigh-Cary, NCCBSA 39580 | 99.12 |
| 13 | IndiaIND | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WACBSA 42660 | 99.71 |
| 14 | MexicoMEX | Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZCBSA 38060 | 90.80 |
| 15 | MexicoMEX | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WICBSA 16980 | 99.58 |
| 16 | MexicoMEX | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CACBSA 40140 | 87.83 |
| 17 | CanadaCAN | Bellingham, WACBSA 13380 | 88.50 |
| 18 | MexicoMEX | Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CACBSA 37100 | 88.96 |
| 19 | IndiaIND | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WICBSA 16980 | 99.58 |
| 20 | MexicoMEX | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CACBSA 41740 | 99.75 |
| 21 | JapanJPN | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MICBSA 22420 | 98.79 |
| 22 | MexicoMEX | Eagle Pass, TXCBSA 20580 | 85.03 |
| 23 | MexicoMEX | Rio Grande City-Roma, TXCBSA 40100 | 98.87 |
| 24 | ChinaCHN | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WACBSA 42660 | 99.71 |
| 25 | IndiaIND | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MICBSA 22420 | 98.79 |
| 26 | MexicoMEX | Hanford-Corcoran, CACBSA 47300 | 95.06 |
| 27 | IndiaIND | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CACBSA 41740 | 99.75 |
| 28 | CanadaCAN | Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FLCBSA 15980 | 99.29 |
| 29 | JapanJPN | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 20700 | 95.19 |
| 30 | ChinaCHN | Urban Honolulu, HICBSA 46520 | 98.91 |
| 31 | MexicoMEX | Salem, OHCBSA 49660 | 88.37 |
| 32 | MexicoMEX | Kennewick-Richland, WACBSA 28420 | 93.68 |
| 33 | MexicoMEX | Hobbs, NMCBSA 26020 | 97.37 |
| 34 | MexicoMEX | Odessa, TXCBSA 36220 | 97.74 |
| 35 | ChinaCHN | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WICBSA 16980 | 99.58 |
| 36 | MexicoMEX | Del Rio, TXCBSA 19620 | 97.83 |
| 37 | ItalyITA | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 20700 | 95.19 |
| 38 | MexicoMEX | Milwaukee-Waukesha, WICBSA 33340 | 95.32 |
| 39 | IndiaIND | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MDCBSA 37980 | 94.44 |
| 40 | MexicoMEX | Gainesville, GACBSA 12060 | 95.73 |
| 41 | IndiaIND | Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MDCBSA 12580 | 93.14 |
| 42 | ChinaCHN | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MDCBSA 37980 | 94.44 |
| 43 | IndiaIND | Columbus, MSCBSA 18060 | 99.41 |
| 44 | GermanyDEU | Killeen-Temple, TXCBSA 28660 | 96.99 |
| 45 | MexicoMEX | Oklahoma City, OKCBSA 36420 | 90.84 |
| 46 | MexicoMEX | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MICBSA 22420 | 98.79 |
| 47 | MexicoMEX | Mount Pleasant, TXCBSA 30980 | 91.76 |
| 48 | IndiaIND | Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SCCBSA 16740 | 97.07 |
| 49 | IndiaIND | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CACBSA 31080 | 99.83 |
| 50 | MexicoMEX | Vallejo, CACBSA 46700 | 93.18 |
| 51 | MexicoMEX | Waco, TXCBSA 47380 | 96.91 |
| 52 | IndiaIND | Memphis, TN-MS-ARCBSA 32820 | 98.16 |
| 53 | IndiaIND | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FLCBSA 45300 | 99.21 |
| 54 | MexicoMEX | Reno, NVCBSA 39900 | 96.49 |
| 55 | MexicoMEX | Deming, NMCBSA 19700 | 93.39 |
| 56 | MexicoMEX | Roswell, NMCBSA 40740 | 94.10 |
| 57 | MexicoMEX | Beaumont-Port Arthur, TXCBSA 13140 | 94.19 |
| 58 | MexicoMEX | Tyler, TXCBSA 46340 | 98.33 |
| 59 | GermanyDEU | Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FLCBSA 15980 | 99.29 |
| 60 | SpainESP | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 20700 | 95.19 |
| 61 | MexicoMEX | Midland, TXCBSA 33260 | 99.25 |
| 62 | MexicoMEX | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PACBSA 20700 | 95.19 |
| 63 | MexicoMEX | Rockford, ILCBSA 40420 | 95.15 |
| 64 | MexicoMEX | Jacksonville, NCCBSA 27340 | 95.52 |
| 65 | ChinaCHN | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MICBSA 22420 | 98.79 |
| 66 | MexicoMEX | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FLCBSA 45300 | 99.21 |
| 67 | MexicoMEX | Columbus, MSCBSA 18060 | 99.41 |
| 68 | ChinaCHN | Raleigh-Cary, NCCBSA 39580 | 99.12 |
| 69 | ChinaCHN | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TXCBSA 19100 | 99.62 |
Coverage and limits
- The connected export does not establish a full standalone conversion definition or numerator and denominator.
- A high percentile is not proof of commercial success or a diplomatic outcome.
Other Sister City components
Commercial Diplomacy Index™ · National Data System · Source and method guide · October 20, 2026