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Quality of life
ClimateShield Index map
The ClimateShield Index measures how physically resilient a jurisdiction is to climate change by 2050, blending five hazards: dangerous heat, water stress, sea-level rise on the coast, cyclone exposure, and river flooding. This map colors every country by its current ClimateShield score using the same absolute paliers as our country profiles. It is built for people choosing a long-term base, where the real question is whether a place will still be safe and livable decades from now. Click a country to drill into the dimensions and open the full profile.
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Green marks the top quintile on this composite, red marks the bottom quintile. Hover and the tables keep the absolute score out of 10. Map colors are relative to the full pool.
- Top quintileabout the top 20 % on this map (best side of the metric)
- Second quintilenext 20 %
- Middle quintilemiddle 20 %
- Fourth quintilenext 20 %
- Bottom quintileabout the bottom 20 % (weakest side of the metric)
- Unrankednot ranked
Top 10 highest scores
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Bottom 10 scores
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Methodology
ClimateShield is a dimension of our composite Lucky Nomads World Index. It scores physical exposure only, deliberately leaving out a country's wealth or its capacity to adapt, since those are captured by other dimensions. Five hazard bricks are normalised to a 1 to 10 resilience scale and combined, with heat the heaviest input, then water stress, sea-level rise, cyclone, and river flooding. Inputs draw on World Bank climate projections, ND-GAIN, and INFORM Risk. The map uses absolute paliers consistent with the rest of the site, and no country reaches a perfect 10, an honest reminder that nowhere is fully shielded.
Frequently asked questions
What does the ClimateShield Index measure?
ClimateShield Index measures structural resilience to climate change by 2050 from physical exposure: extreme heat, water stress, sea-level rise, cyclones, and river flooding. It is one of the 22 objective dimensions that feed our composite Lucky Nomads World Index.
How is the ClimateShield Index score from 1 to 10 constructed?
The ClimateShield Index is scored independently for every jurisdiction from primary sources and structured analytical inference, then normalised on a 1 to 10 scale. The same engine powers the cockpit, ranking pages, and country profiles, so the ClimateShield Index you see here matches the score on each country profile.
How should I read the colors on the ClimateShield Index map?
Green countries score 8 or higher on ClimateShield Index, yellow countries land in the 6 to 7.9 range, red countries are below 6. Gray countries are not currently ranked. For the full ordered list, see our /rankings/best-countries-climate-resilience page.
Where can I see the ClimateShield Index score for one specific country?
Click any green or red polygon on the map, or open the country profile under /countries/[slug] to see its ClimateShield Index score plus the other 17 dimensions.
How often is the ClimateShield Index updated?
Scores are reviewed on a rolling cadence as new data lands. The map below reflects the latest published numbers from our objective scoring engine.
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Researched from official sources, leading global indices and Lucky Nomads' own scoring.