The Global Risks Index
NXS-GRX · Global series · GLB

The world, read as one system

The state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap between perceived and measured risk.

Page GRX-SER-GLBEdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30Nexus Reports GLB (drafted)Values not yet publishedSnapshot 31a753f76
FIG 1 · Profiles the global series aggregates
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AndorraAntigua and BarbudaBahrainBarbadosComorosCabo VerdeDominicaMicronesia (Federated States of)GrenadaKiribatiSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaLiechtensteinMonacoMaldivesMarshall IslandsMaltaMauritiusNauruPalauSingaporeSan MarinoSao Tome and PrincipeSeychellesTongaTuvaluHoly SeeSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoa
Equal Earth · Natural Earth 1:110mValues when released
195 profiles. Colour shows facts, not risk: UN M49 region or the Nexus Reports country edition. Risk classes replace them here when an edition is released. Select a country to open its profile; drag to pan, use + and − to zoom; press a legend item to isolate it.
195
country profiles aggregated
20
domain indices
451
indicator definitions
905
hazards in Hazard Standard
01Structure

One grammar from source to global reading

Global values aggregate the 195 profiles, weighted by population for human-centred domains and by exposure or output for economic and infrastructure domains, and read the global systems directly.

computation
The NXS-GRX (canonical data, provenance and risk) pipeline, from source to profile
Graph24 nodes
Graph
01Sources
02Harmonise
03Indicators
04Sub-indices
05Domains
06Pillars
07Composite and instruments
08Outputs
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List
  1. Event streams
    SOURCES · SOURCES · near real time
    Admitted alert, Earth-observation, conflict-event, price and market streams for the Pulse instrument.
  2. 208 registered sources
    SOURCES · SOURCES · licence-gated
    Every source is registered with its licence; nothing enters a public value its licence does not admit.
  3. Scenario families
    SOURCES · SOURCES · labelled
    Socio-economic and warming pathways and transition families, used as labelled scenario structures.
  4. Surveys and elicitation
    SOURCES · SOURCES · perception
    Structured expert elicitation and public surveys, kept apart from measured risk.
  5. Dependency network
    NETWORK · NETWORK · six layers
    Trade and input–output, finance and debt, energy, food trade, infrastructure and information links.
  6. Harmonised series
    HAR · HAR · units, areas, time
    Source series mapped to Nexus concepts and code lists; units, areas and frequency aligned; no imputation.
  7. 451 indicators
    IND · IND · Indicator Standard
    Native indicators with definitions, units, polarity, levels and crosswalks; flagged imputation only here.
  8. 86 sub-indices
    SUB · SUB · normalised
    Normalised, weighted and aggregated components inside each domain.
  9. 20 domain indices
    IDX · IDX · 1,000 draws
    Twenty domain indices with Monte Carlo intervals and sensitivity.
  10. Systemic coupling score
    COUPLING · COUPLING · S
    Contagion on the dependency network: DebtRank, clearing and threshold cascades.
  11. Hazard and threat exposure
    PILLAR · PILLAR · HTE
    What can strike, how often, how hard and who and what stands in its way?
  12. Human and systems vulnerability
    PILLAR · PILLAR · VUL
    How susceptible are people, livelihoods, ecosystems and essential systems to harm when a shock arrives?
  13. Macro-financial and structural fragility
    PILLAR · PILLAR · MSF
    How much fiscal, financial, external, digital and technological room does the system have before stress turns into crisis?
  14. Lack of coping and adaptive capacity
    PILLAR · PILLAR · LCC
    Can institutions anticipate, absorb, respond, recover and adapt?
  15. Pulse
    INSTRUMENT · INSTRUMENT · weekly
    Nowcast anomaly against each country's own history.
  16. Outlook
    INSTRUMENT · INSTRUMENT · 1 to 36 months
    Calibrated event probabilities with verification scorecards.
  17. Tail
    INSTRUMENT · INSTRUMENT · exceedance
    Exceedance curves, return-period losses, catastrophic register.
  18. Pathways
    INSTRUMENT · INSTRUMENT · to 2100
    Fan charts under named scenario families.
  19. Perception
    INSTRUMENT · INSTRUMENT · separate
    Perceived severity and the perception gap.
  20. NXS-GRX Composite Risk
    COMPOSITE · COMPOSITE · geometric
    Composite = (HTE × VUL × MSF × LCC)^(1/4), each pillar on 0–10 floored at 0.1; pillar = expert-weighted geometric mean of its domain indices
  21. 195 country profiles
    PROFILES · PROFILES · classes, intervals
    Every domain, pillar and instrument per country, never ranked.
  22. 54 series indices
    SERIES · SERIES · global to technology
    Specialised indices from the same domain indices.
  23. API, tiles and bulk files
    ACCESS · ACCESS · machine
    Public cut, SDMX keys, vector tiles, bulk files.
  24. NXS-GRX Coupled Risk
    COMPOSITE · COMPOSITE · × (1 + κ·S)
    Coupled = Composite × (1 + κ·S), S = systemic coupling score in [0,1] from the dependency network, κ disclosed per release (baseline κ = 0.25); reported beside the standalone composite, never instead of it
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FIG 2. Select a stage to trace it; Simulate run plays the pipeline in order. Every stage keeps provenance, so a correction at a source reaches every value that depends on it.
HazardExposureVulnerabilityImpactLikelihoodRiskCapacityResponseFinancingOutcome
02Pillars

Four pillars, one composite, one coupled composite

A class is printed with its probability (share of Monte Carlo draws inside the class). Below 60% the adjacent class is printed too (for example High, 54% · Very high, 41%).

NXS-GRX · CRI · 195 profiles · 0–10 scale
NXS-GRX Composite Risk, world
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Values publish with the edition; the interval, class and change appear here.
Previous edition
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Range since 2016
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Coupled composite
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Coupling score S
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Pulse, latest week
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Outlook, 12 months
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Method
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Draws
1,000
NXS-GRX Composite Risk, world, by edition

No released values yet. The first edition draws the history here with its interval band and class bounds.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.
InstrumentValueChangeChange %90% intervalClass · probabilityTrendRange
NXS-GRX Composite RiskNXS-GRX · CRI—————
NXS-GRX Coupled RiskNXS-GRX · CPL—————
Hazard and threat exposureNXS-GRX · HTE—————
Human and systems vulnerabilityNXS-GRX · VUL—————
Macro-financial and structural fragilityNXS-GRX · MSF—————
Lack of coping and adaptive capacityNXS-GRX · LCC—————
Very low0.0 to < 2.0
Low2.0 to < 3.5
Medium3.5 to < 5.0
High5.0 to < 6.5
Very high6.5 to 10.0
FIG 3 · Simulator: four pillars to the composite and coupled composite
Pillars (0 to 10)
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5.1
3.6
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Coupling and uncertainty
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Simulator: Composite = (HTE × VUL × MSF × LCC)^¼ with each pillar floored at 0.1; Coupled = Composite × (1 + κ·S). Draws vary weights, aggregation and inputs. The positions are starting points, not NXS-GRX values.
03Domains

Twenty domain indices

Every domain index stays visible beside the pillars and the composite; none is collapsed silently.

IndexValueChangeChange %90% intervalClass · probabilityTrendRange
Fiscal and public debt riskNXS-GRX · FIS—————
Financial stability riskNXS-GRX · FIN—————
External dependence riskNXS-GRX · ECO—————
Climate physical hazardNXS-GRX · CLI—————
Climate transition exposureNXS-GRX · CLI—————
Multi-hazard exposureNXS-GRX · HAZ—————
Environmental pressureNXS-GRX · ENV—————
Water security riskNXS-GRX · WAT—————
Space-weather exposureNXS-GRX · SPC—————
Health security riskNXS-GRX · HLT—————
Food insecurity riskNXS-GRX · FOO—————
Socio-economic vulnerabilityNXS-GRX · SOC—————
Displacement pressureNXS-GRX · DEM—————
Conflict riskNXS-GRX · CON—————
Governance weaknessNXS-GRX · GOV—————
Energy security riskNXS-GRX · ENE—————
Infrastructure fragilityNXS-GRX · INF—————
Cyber riskNXS-GRX · CYB—————
Technology concentration riskNXS-GRX · TEC—————
Lack of coping capacityNXS-GRX · CRS—————
04Countries

Every country at a glance

A tile per profile, grouped by UN M49 region, and the largest movements since the previous edition.

Tiles are coloured by composite class once values are released; select a tile to open the profile.

No movements yet. Changes since the previous edition are listed here from the second edition on, with the indicators that drove them.
05Coupling

Where risk travels across systems and borders

The Coupling instrument types the dependency edges between ten systems and reports the coupled composite beside the standalone one.

FIG 4 · Expected direct couplings between systems (row affects column)
WATENEFOOHLTBIOFINTRDINFDIGSEC
Water
Energy
Food
Health
Biodiversity
Finance
Trade
Infrastructure
Digital
Security
Weak expected couplingModerate expected couplingStrong expected coupling
Schematic: the couplings the Coupling instrument expects to estimate. Strengths here are expectations from the literature the edition will cite, not estimates; each becomes ◆ ESTIMATED with its method and references in an edition.
FIG 5 · Simulator: how a shock cascades across systems
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WaterEnergyFoodHealthBiodiversityFinanceTradeInfrastructureDigitalSecurity
Simulator: a threshold cascade on a schematic network of systems. Edge strengths are expected couplings (weak, moderate, strong), not estimates; the shock, coupling, threshold and buffers are yours. NXS-GRX estimates couplings per edition before any coupled value is published.
06Tail

The rare, severe end of the distribution

Exceedance curves, return-period losses and expected shortfall where loss can be modelled, plus a register of low-probability, high-impact risks.

FIG 6 · Explorer: exceedance, return-period loss and the protection gap
Frequency and severity
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1.4
One risk-transfer layer
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Explorer: 20,000 simulated years from your frequency and severity settings; the exceedance curve, average annual loss, 1-in-100 and 1-in-250 annual losses, expected shortfall, and how one layer splits loss into retained, transferred and gap. Units are yours; nothing here is a modelled loss for any place.

Standing tail register

Supply-chain and flow disruptionCascading failureCompound and multi-hazard eventsStructural fragility of interconnected systemsPlanetary boundary transgressionsIce tipping elementsOcean circulation and marine tippingBiome tipping elementsCarbon-cycle feedbacksAtmospheric circulation and monsoon tippingDeep-time and cosmic catastrophesSolar-terrestrial stormsImpacts and orbital hazards
07Pathways

How risk moves to 2030, 2050 and 2100

Pathways editions project each domain under named scenario families as fan charts, never as single lines.

FIG 7 · Explorer: a pathway fan chart to 2100
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Explorer: 2,000 paths from your drift, volatility and shock settings, shown as a fan chart (50% and 90% bands, median line) against the class bounds. Pathways editions project each domain under named scenario families; this explainer uses no scenario data.
09Signals

From a detected signal to a briefing

Pulse and Outlook signals stop at an analyst gate; nothing is issued as a warning by NXS-GRX, and every handoff names the authority that decides.

on: pulse anomaly
A signal for review
Waiting for approvalTriggered by Pulse nowcast5 jobs1 approval gate1 matrix job
Graph
01Detect
02Verify
03Assess
04Hand off
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Timeline
Job0 d2 d4 d6 d8 d10 dTarget
Anomaly detectedPulse nowcast7 d
Sources verifiedData stewards1 d
Analyst reviewAnalysts2 d
Information for competent authoritiesSecretariat1 d
Logged and watchedPulse nowcastongoing

End to end on the longest path: about 12.3 d of proposed target service levels, before the jobs that run with no fixed end. Gates wait for the people named; bars with a fading end have no fixed length.

Steps
  1. Anomaly detected
    Detect · Pulse nowcast · weekly
    Standardised anomaly vs own history
    Pulse nowcast
  2. Sources verified matrix · per stream
    Verify · Data stewards · 1 day
    Each stream checked · Licence admits use
    Licence registerProvenance (W3C PROV)
  3. Analyst review approval
    Assess · Analysts · 2 days
    Context, couplings, confidence
    PostgreSQL ledger (row-level security)
  4. Information for competent authorities
    Hand off · Secretariat · 1 day
    Shared for review, not a warning
    NXS-GRX gateway
  5. Logged and watched
    Hand off · Pulse nowcast · ongoing
    Outcome tracked for verification
    PostgreSQL ledger (row-level security)Pulse nowcast
Artifacts
ArtifactJobWhoStage
Signal candidateAnomaly detectedPulse nowcastDetect
Source checkSources verifiedData stewardsVerify
AssessmentAnalyst reviewAnalystsAssess
Handoff recordInformation for competent authoritiesSecretariatHand off
Verification recordLogged and watchedPulse nowcastHand off
DoneIn progressWaiting for approvalQueuedApproval gateMatrix jobYou are here
How a weekly anomaly becomes a signal for review by competent authorities, never a public warning. The canvas shows where a request stands at the marked job; it is an illustration, not the status of a real request. Durations are proposed target service levels. Select a job for its steps, the people who act, the technology it runs on and what it produces.
11Cite

Cite and reuse

GCRI Canada (2026). The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX): Global Systems series (GRX-SER-GLB), Baseline Edition 2026. Preparatory working draft. https://risksindex.com/global/ UNI NXS-GRX-AR-000002.
Global tiles
/api/v1/public/grix/risk-products/tiles/{metric}/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt
Observation key
nis:IDX.HAZ.multi.hazard_exposure:WLD:2026:A

Read any country on the same grammar

Every profile carries the same twenty domains, four pillars and seven instruments, with intervals and sources.