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NXS-GRX-PRY · South America

Paraguay

Country risk profile on The Global Risks Index: hazard and threat exposure, vulnerability, macro-financial fragility, coping capacity and systemic coupling, with intervals, sources and corrections on every value.

Rûpel GRX-PRYÇap Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PRY / PYRewş UN member stateValues not yet publishedRêbaz v1.0.0-draft
FIG 1 · Paraguay in South America
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hazard domains
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sub-regional peers
02Humanitarian data

Paraguay in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Poverty headcount · 2016-12-31

4.5%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Refugees hosted · 2025-12-31

6,280

refugees and asylum-seekers in the country. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Refugees from the country · 2025-12-31

2,560

refugees and asylum-seekers abroad, most in Spain, Italy, United States of America. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Humanitarian funding · 2025-12-31

US$ 0 m

received against US$ 5 m required. OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall

1 units

with rainfall against the long-term average, on the unit pages. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

03Qad

The full profile of Paraguay, area by area

Fourteen areas from macroeconomy to frontier technology, and the planned innovation index. Each card says whether its sources are cleared, shows the mix, and gives two actions: what the area needs, and a scenario you can run now on open data.

How to readAdmitted: usableUnder legal review: waitingProhibited: excludedNot in the register: not yet assessedAcross the 14 areas: 113 admitted · 63 under legal review · 23 prohibited · 170 not in the register
Partly admitted14 indicators · 2 composites

Macroeconomy and external position

Output, prices, external balance and reserves, monetary conditions and labour, with intervals and the change since the last edition.

GDP
US$ 49.3 billion 2025
GDP per person
US$ 7,027 2025
GDP growth
6.6% 2025
4 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 not in the register
Partly admitted37 indicators · 7 composites

Fiscal position and public debt

Debt path fan charts, gross financing needs, debt service and fiscal stress, with the assumptions published.

Government revenue
18.7% 2024
Government expense
18.9% 2023
External debt
69.7% 2024
7 admitted · 13 under legal review · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted32 indicators · 7 composites

Financial system

Banking-system capital and liquidity, credit growth, asset prices and contagion on the dependency network.

Non-performing loans
2.2% 2025
Bank capital to assets
9.1% 2025
Lending interest rate
12.5% 2021
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Trade, economic structure and supply chains

Trade openness and concentration, commodity dependence and supply-chain exposure by sector.

Bazirganî
76.5% 2025
Exports
37.2% 2025
Fuel exports
11% 2025
8 admitted · 6 under legal review · 5 not in the register
Partly admitted13 indicators · 5 composites

Av

Water stress, drought, access and quality, coupled to food, energy and health in the water, energy, food, health and biodiversity nexus.

Safely managed drinking water
64.4% 2024
Water stress
1.8% 2022
Renewable internal freshwater per person
17,307 m³ 2022
3 admitted · 2 under legal review · 2 prohibited · 4 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Enerjî

Supply security, import dependence, grid reliability, transition exposure and access.

Access to electricity
99.8% 2024
Renewable energy
58.8% 2021
Energy imports, net
16.6% 2024
7 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Food systems

Availability, access, prices and nutrition, and the drivers from water, energy, trade and conflict.

Undernourishment
4.1% 2024
Cereal yield
3,617 2024
Stunting, under 5
5.6% 2016
14 admitted · 4 under legal review · 2 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 6 composites

Ewlehiya tenduristiyê

Health-system capacity, outbreak preparedness, disease burden and the health effects of other systems.

Life expectancy
74 years 2024
Under-5 mortality
16.3 2024
Health spending
8.4% 2023
4 admitted · 2 under legal review · 15 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted22 indicators · 6 composites

Environment and biodiversity

Ecosystem condition, biodiversity pressure, land and ocean change and nature dependence of the economy.

Forest area
36.5% 2024
Protected areas
14.9% 2025
PM2.5 air pollution
15.3 µg/m³ 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 22 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 8 composites

Climate: physical and transition

Chronic and acute physical risk under scenarios, and transition exposure of the economy and the public balance sheet.

CO₂ emissions per person
1.2 t CO₂e 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions
41.4 Mt CO₂e 2024
People below 5 m elevation
0% 2015
10 admitted · 7 under legal review · 24 not in the register
Partly admitted39 indicators · 10 composites

Conflict, governance and security

Violence and its spillovers, institutional quality, rule of law and state capacity.

Intentional homicides
6.8 2023
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 14 not in the register
Partly admitted27 indicators · 10 composites

Frontier technology and innovation

Frontier technology risk and capacity side by side: AI, compute, semiconductors, quantum, space, biotech, cyber resilience and digital infrastructure, with the innovation index below.

Research and development spending
0.14% 2023
Researchers in R&D
139 2023
High-technology exports
10.5% 2024
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 26 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Coping capacity and disaster finance

Preparedness, response and recovery capacity, risk financing and social protection.

Social protection coverage
5.7% 2022
9 admitted · 1 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted46 indicators · 11 composites

Society, demography and mobility

Human development, inequality, ageing, urbanisation and displacement.

Nifûs
7.0 million 2025
Urban population
70.4% 2025
Poverty at $3.00 a day
2.1% 2024
11 admitted · 1 under legal review · 12 not in the register
Planned12 planned indicators

Innovation index

Research, patents, talent, compute, digital infrastructure and capital for Paraguay, read beside frontier technology risk. Not in Indicator Standard yet; each indicator needs its source admitted.

04Quote

Paraguay composite risk

Value, change since the previous edition, 90% interval and class probability; the history and the published indicators follow.

NXS-GRX-PRY · CRI · South America · 0–10 scale
Paraguay composite risk
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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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Rêbaz
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Draws
1,000
Paraguay composite risk, 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.

“Paraguay: published indicators” is not connected: the Foundry connection it needs is switched off on this network.

05Profile

Four pillars, composite and coupled composite

The composite is shown only with its four pillars and twenty domain indices beside it; each value carries a 90% interval and a class with its probability.

AmûrNirxChangeChange %90% intervalClass · probabilityMeylRange
NXS-GRX Composite RiskNXS-GRX-PRY · CRI–––––
NXS-GRX Coupled RiskNXS-GRX-PRY · CPL–––––
Hazard and threat exposureNXS-GRX-PRY · HTE–––––
Human and systems vulnerabilityNXS-GRX-PRY · VUL–––––
Macro-financial and structural fragilityNXS-GRX-PRY · MSF–––––
Lack of coping and adaptive capacityNXS-GRX-PRY · LCC–––––
Pir kêm0.0 to < 2.0
Kêm2.0 to < 3.5
Navîn3.5 to < 5.0
Bilind5.0 to < 6.5
Very high6.5 to 10.0
07Girêdan

How Paraguay is coupled to the world

Not yet estimated. Coupling strengths through trade and inputs, finance and debt, energy, food trade, infrastructure and information are ◆ ESTIMATED per edition with their method and references; the coupled composite is reported beside the standalone one.
09Peers

Profiles in South America

A peer group is a reading context, not a ranking; profiles are listed by name.

Explore Paraguay

Indices, hazards, the map and the data behind every value.

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