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Portugal

High structural capacity, prosperity roughly in line with institutions, lopsided (economic complexity the weak point).

0.750
Band 2 · High capacity

What stands out

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P1InstitutionsP2ComplexityP3Human cap.P4EconomyP5Stability

Structural shape

Each spoke shows one pillar, with 0 at the center and 1 at the edge. The shape reveals whether the pillars are similar or whether one is much lower than the others. That difference is called the .

Read as Lopsided · spread 0.36

Additional checks

0 flagged · 2/9 assessed

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Data-based checks

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Case-specific checks

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These checks describe structural risk. They do not predict who will act first in a conflict. Differences smaller than 0.03 are treated as too close to rank when countries are compared head-to-head.

Additional diagnostics

governance context has not been reviewed
Governance approach
No clear classification

the reviewed context is mixed, incomplete, or changing.

Structural risk
lowfrom the scoring formula's structural checks
  • · Watch: 0.364 gap between the highest and lowest pillars
  • · Flagged checks: income and institutions gap
Weighting check · score under 4 sets of weights
0.750
Equal weights
0.767
Time-varying weights
0.744
Correlation weights
0.736
Archived manual weights

Largest difference across the weighting methods: 0.031. The country stays in the same score band in each check.

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0.750
Band 2 · High capacity
published score
P1InstitutionsP2ComplexityP3Human cap.P4EconomyP5Stability
0.67
0.54
0.88
0.90
0.75

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External security context

reviewed for 1926
0.00low
threats from outside the country
No major ally identified
whether a credible ally was expected to defend it
0.26low
capacity to respond after an external shock

LOW structural exposure, low response: this was not a relational case, any rupture here came through the INTERNAL channel, not external exposure (e.g. Spain 1936).

What happened: 28 May 1926 coup: the Estado Novo dictatorship (to 1974).

The indicators behind the score

5/5 pillars · 2024
69.8
75.4
66.5
64.5
57
43.7
1.7
0.7
0.8
1.0
51,680
75.1
79.0
0.3

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