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Only official data

Every number comes from an official statistical source: Eurostat, the OECD and, for Spain’s quarterly unemployment, INE. The data is fetched from their public APIs every day and saved unchanged; each indicator links to its dataset and the exact request used.

Nothing is estimated, averaged or scored. Where no official series exists, the shape is hatched and says why.

How to read the colours

Trend (default): whether each indicator improved or worsened since the previous comparable value, slightly or clearly. Stable is shown neutral, because staying the same is not always good.

Benchmark: whether an official EU target is met, where one exists; a few indicators use labelled NationPulse thresholds instead. The colour of a body part is never a combined score: its stripes simply count how many of its indicators improve or worsen.

AI-researched notes

For areas without an official series (press freedom, court times, civic space…), purple notes show figures published by other credible sources, such as RSF, the World Justice Project or the EU Justice Scoreboard. They were researched with AI and checked against the linked sources; they are never coloured or counted.