Verisk Maplecroft has expanded its Country Risk Data with the release of 43 new and enhanced indices, significantly strengthening its risk coverage at a time when businesses are facing a more volatile and fragmented global operating environment.
The release adds and enhances indices across political risk, climate transition, environmental risk, trade, regulation and natural hazards, reflecting Verisk Maplecroft’s continued investment in decision-grade risk intelligence that improves the practical use of our data via increased issue coverage, higher granularity, and greater predictive power.
The new release features two major additions to Verisk Maplecroft’s Political Risk Data: the Geopolitical Relations Index and the Predictive War Index. Together, the indices give organisations a more sophisticated view of cross-border tensions and conflict risk, supporting risk monitoring, supply chain planning, investment analysis and broader resilience strategies. Complementing these are the new Trade Exposure and Trade Resilience indices, which enable companies to understand how vulnerable they and their supply chains are to global events such as the tariffs, regional conflicts and disruption to vital maritime chokepoints, and develop appropriate resilience and diversification strategies.
“This is not simply an expansion of our Country Risk Data, but an upgrade in how risk intelligence can be applied across core workflows, from supplier screening to investment and resilience planning,” says Sam Haynes, VP and Head of Data and Analytics at Verisk Maplecroft. “This delivers on our longstanding commitment to provide the most complete country and risk coverage available; greater precision in assessing the risks facing suppliers, operations, investments; and stronger forward-looking insight to identify emerging threats earlier.”
Other newly released and updated indices include:
Bringing geopolitics and conflict into sharper focus
Covering 196 countries and more than 19,000 bilateral country pairs, the Geopolitical Relations Index is designed to help organisations monitor shifts in the global risk landscape with greater precision. It combines measures including historic bilateral disputes, power projection capabilities and verbal conflict between governments to provide a dynamic view of geopolitical friction.
The Predictive War Index brings a forward-looking dimension to political risk analysis by forecasting the probability of war in a country over the coming 12 months. Built using a machine learning model trained on political and socio-economic data, the index is intended to support earlier decision-making around market exposure, operational continuity and strategic planning.
In terms of breadth of coverage, the new indices bring the total number of risks covered by Verisk Maplecroft’s Country Risk Data to over 200, providing clients with the ability to select packages of data that are exactly tailored to their needs depending on their workflow and sector.
