ilo sike

ilo sike

A user-shaped atlas of countries — powered by data, enriched by culture, designed for discovery.

What it is

ilo sike lets you define your own idea of what makes a country "better," then instantly see rankings based on those values. You mix classic development indicators with quality-of-life factors and playful cultural ones, and the ranking updates live.

How the score works

  • Each metric is normalized to a 0–1 range across all countries using min-max.
  • You can flip the direction (↑/↓) per metric, so "low innovation" or "high cost of living" can win.
  • Your score is a weighted average of the active metrics, scaled to 0–100.
  • Missing values are skipped and the weights are renormalized automatically.
  • Countries show a data coverage percentage so you know how complete the score is.

About the data

The atlas covers 224 countries and territories with 37 metrics. 21 metrics carry real, cited, per-country-dated values (most over 150 countries), and all 15 creative/playful metrics have curated 0–100 scores for ~200 countries. Real-data cells show their vintage as a tiny year badge (e.g. '23), and metrics with multi-year history render a small trend sparkline next to the value.

Real metrics (21)

  • GDP per capita — World Bank NY.GDP.PCAP.CD. 194.
  • Human Development Index — UNDP HDR 2023/24. 193.
  • Life expectancy — OWID (HMD + UN WPP). 211.
  • Unemployment — World Bank / ILO SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS. 184.
  • Income equality (100 − Gini) — World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform. 155.
  • Innovation index — WIPO Global Innovation Index 2024. 133.
  • Happiness — World Happiness Report 2024 (Cantril Life Ladder). 140.
  • Safety — derived from UNODC / World Bank homicide rate (VC.IHR.PSRC.P5). 188.
  • Healthcare — WHO / World Bank UHC Service Coverage Index (SH.UHC.SRVS.CV.XD). 183.
  • Education — OWID mean years of schooling (Lee-Lee / Barro-Lee / UNDP), scaled 0–100. 194.
  • Cost of living — Numbeo Cost of Living Index 2024. 121.
  • Internet speed — Ookla Speedtest Global Index 2024. 160.
  • Sunshine hours — Wikipedia composite. 178.
  • Corruption perceptions — Transparency International CPI 2024. 181.
  • Press freedom — RSF World Press Freedom Index 2024. 178.
  • Political stability — World Bank WGI 2022 (PV.PER.RNK). 203.
  • Renewable electricity — OWID / Ember Global Electricity Review 2023. 169.
  • Air quality — derived from World Bank PM2.5 (EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3, 2020). 198.
  • Gender equality — WEF Global Gender Gap 2024. 146.
  • Green space (forest cover proxy) — World Bank AG.LND.FRST.ZS. 204.
  • Public transit (urban pop proxy) — World Bank SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS. 206.

Creative / playful metrics (15, curated)

Tagged playful in the UI and covering ~200 countries each: food variety, coffee culture, cheese variety, music influence, literary output, festival frequency, wildlife density, adventure score, beach quality, astronomy potential, ghost-story richness, board-game culture, meme culture, puzzle-solving prowess, and time-travel appeal. These are subjective curatorial estimates — opinionated by design.

Reproducibility

The pipeline is open: legacy time-series JSONs (from an earlier prototype committed to git) are reduced to latest-value form by scripts/reduce-legacy-data.mjs, merged with hand-curated estimates and country metadata by scripts/build-dataset.mjs, and written into src/data/countries/generated.ts. Running npm run data:allregenerates everything.

What's next

  • Historical series for the other 16 real metrics (pipeline already supports sparklines, but only the 5 legacy metrics have 20-year histories).
  • Shareable configurations (URL-encoded weights) and saved presets.
  • User-uploaded indicators.
  • Tighten the creative metrics via crowd review.

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