Global Dynamism Signals
Macro-intelligence database for market research and investment strategy
Overview
Global Dynamism Signals is a curated, unified macro-intelligence platform for global investors, corporates, and strategists evaluating international markets and investment opportunities. By consolidating, harmonizing, and downscaling critical indicators across macroeconomic, fiscal, socioeconomic, geopolitical, and environmental domains, the platform delivers a comprehensive, hyper-local view of global markets — enabling faster, smarter, and more confident decision-making.
The challenge
Evaluating markets in today’s complex environment requires a multidimensional view of a location’s macroeconomic stability, fiscal health, demographic profile, institutional quality, geopolitical risk, environmental resilience, and more.
Yet, this process is often inefficient and hindered by:
Fragmented and siloed data: Key indicators are scattered across disparate sources and data formats, making it time-consuming and costly to build a comprehensive picture.
Geographic inconsistencies: Coverage varies across global locations, especially at subnational levels, limiting accurate benchmarking and localized analysis.
Our solution
Global Dynamism Signals solve these challenges through a unified database of more than 60 curated, macro-indicators across 10 key themes — all integrated into a single, intuitive platform. Users can:
Access harmonized macro data from global sources across countries and regions on demand.
Leverage AlphaGeo's proprietary enhancements, from geospatial downscaling to machine learning analytics.
Use cases
Global Dynamism Signals equips users with the intelligence needed to spot trends, identify opportunities, assess risks, and optimize strategy across global markets. Key applications include:
Market research Analyze data to identify correlations, emerging trends and predict market dynamics.
Advisory and consulting Accelerate project delivery and decision support with access to on-demand, cross-market indicators for comparative analysis.
Policy analysis Benchmark performance across key metrics to inform strategic planning and public policy.
Thematic data coverage
Demographic Trends
Data on population growth, density, and composition to reveal shifting demand and long-term market potential.
Ecosystem Sustainability
Indicators on emissions, physical climate risks, pollution, environmental performance and food security to highlight ecosystem risks, resilience and constraints.
Energy Reliability
Data on energy access, reliability, power generation and renewables production for insight into a location's operational and industrial capacity.
Fiscal Stability
Indicators such as government debt, current account balance, and public spending to reveal resilience to financial shocks.
Human Capital
Data on educational attainment, labor force participation, and academic quality to help assess talent pools and the viability of high-skilled industries.
Infrastructure Quality
Metrics on transport connectivity, infrastructure quality, and investment to assess market readiness for industrial operations, logistics and supply chain development.
Innovation Capacity
Metrics on R&D output, AI readiness, economic complexity, and ICT infrastructure to identify emerging innovation hubs and assess long-term competitiveness.
Institutional Quality
Indices on governance effectiveness, accountability and reputation to reveal a market's regulatory transparency and degree of investor protections.
Macroeconomic Outlook
Foundational metrics on GDP growth, inflation and currency volatility, sovereign credit risk, trade and FDI to support core macro-level investment risk and return analysis.
Market Potential
Indicators such as credit penetration, housing price trends, and tax-friendly city rankings to provide insight on consumer demand, asset appreciation potential, and investment attractiveness.
Migration Patterns
Insights on net migration, HNW inflows, and openness to talent to forecast labor market shifts, innovation diffusion, and real estate demand in leading cities and nations.
Social Wellbeing
Metrics such as healthcare access, retirement affordability, and crime rates to proxy overall location livability, attractiveness and social cohesion.
Societal Wealth
Data on income levels, inequality, poverty, and household debt to assess financial inclusion and consumption capacity within a market.
Appendix: Global Dynamism Signals data catalog
Demographic Trend
Total National Population
Estimate of total resident population, providing harmonized and current demographic figures suitable for international comparison.
Annual
Country
Number of people
Demographic Trend
Population Density
Population density calculated using official population and land area data to ensure comparability across countries.
Annual
Sq KM
Number of people
Demographic Trend
Population Growth
Annual percentage change in national population incorporating natural population gain/loss and net migration.
Annual
Country
%
Demographic Trend
Dependent Population
Proportion of each country’s population aged 65 and older, reflecting aging demographics and dependency ratio.
Annual
Country
%
Ecosystem Sustainability
Per Capita Emissions
CO₂ emissions per capita.
Annual
Country
Tonnes
Ecosystem Sustainability
Environmental Performance Index
Country-level performance on the Environmental Performance Index, based on 58 performance indicators on climate change performance, environmental healthy, and ecosystem vitality.
Annual
Country
Index score
Ecosystem Sustainability
Air Pollution
Annual average PM2.5 concentration.
Annual
Province
micrograms per cubic meter
Ecosystem Sustainability
Food Security Index
Country-level performance on the Food Security Index which measures food affordability, availability, quality, safety, sustainability and adaptation across 68 indicators.
Annual
Country
Index score
Energy Reliability
Renewable Energy Generation
Total primary energy generated from renewable sources including solar, wind and hydropower.
Annual
Country
Terrawatt-hours
Energy Reliability
Renewables Share of Generation
Share of electricity generated by renewables including solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, wave and tidal sources.
Annual
Country
%
Energy Reliability
Electricity Access (% of Population)
Share of population with access to electricity.
Annual
Country
%
Energy Reliability
Total Power Capacity
Total power plant capacity in city vicinity.
Annual
City
Megawatt-hours
Energy Reliability
Power Plants in Vicinity
Number of power plants in city vicinity.
Annual
City
Number of power plants
Energy Reliability
Energy Trilemma Index
Country-level performance on the Energy Trilema Index, which quantifies performance across three dimensions: energy security, energy equity and environmental sustainability.
Annual
Country
Index score
Fiscal Stability
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)
Balance of current transactions (counting goods and services, earned income and transfer income) between residents and non-residents.
Annual
Country
%
Fiscal Stability
General Gross Government Debt (% of GDP)
Ratio of gross public debt to GDP.
Annual
Country
%
Fiscal Stability
Government Expenditure (% of GDP)
General government spending as a percentage of GDP.
Annual
Country
%
Human Capital
Employment-Population Ratio
Share of employed persons as a percent of the total of working-age population.
Annual
Country
%
Human Capital
Age Dependency Ratio
Ratio of dependents (people younger than 15 or older than 64) to the working-age population (those aged 15-64). Data is shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age residents.
Annual
Country
%
Human Capital
Working Age Population
Share of population aged 15-64.
Annual
Country
%
Human Capital
Unemployment Rate
The number of unemployed persons as a share of the total workforce.
Annual
Country
%
Human Capital
Educational Attainment
Share of population (aged 25 and above) with at least a Bachelor's or equivalent.
Annual
Country
%
Infrastructure Quaility
Airport Passenger Volume
Number of air passengers carried by airlines registered in each country, including domestic and international travel.
Annual
Country
Number of passengers
Infrastructure Quaility
Infrastructure Quality
Country-level performance on the Logistics Performance Index, which scores six dimensions of trade including customs performance, infrastructure quality, and timeliness of shipments.
Annual
Country
Index score
Infrastructure Quaility
Fixed Capital Formation Ratio (FCFR)
Gross fixed capital formation as a share of GDP, reflecting national investment in infrastructure and productive assets.
Annual
Country
%
Innovation Capacity
Economic Complexity Index (ECI)
Country-level performance on the Economic Complexity Index, which measures the relative knowledge intensity of an economy, based on trade data.
Annual
Country
Index score
Innovation Capacity
AI Preparedness Index
Country-level performance on the AI Preparedness Index (AIPI), which assesses a country’s digital infrastructure, human capital and labor market policies, innovation and economic integration, and regulation and ethics.
Annual
Country
Index score
Innovation Capacity
Global Innovation Index
Country-level performance on the Global Innovation Index, which quantifies over 80 indicators including policy environment, education, infrastructure, and knowledge creation.
Annual
Country
Index score
Innovation Capacity
ICT Development Index
Country-level performance on the ICT Development Index, which assesses the level of information and communication technology (ICT) development across countries.
Annual
Country
Index score
Innovation Capacity
Number of Data Centers
Number of data centers present in the province categorized by operational status, including zoned, under construction and active facilities.
Annual
Province
Number
Institutional Quality
Government Effectiveness
Worldwide Governance Indicator for Governance Effectiveness, which captures perceptions on the quality of public and civil services.
Annual
Country
Index score
Institutional Quality
Global Soft Power Index
Country-level performance on Global Soft Power Index ranking countries by influence, familiarity and reputation without military or economic coercion.
Annual
Country
Index score
Institutional Quality
Legal and Regulatory Risk
Equally-weighted combination of World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators for Rule of Law and Regulatory Quality.
Annual
Country
Index score
Institutional Quality
Political Stability and the Absence of Violence / Teorrorism
Worldwide Governance Indicator for Political Stability and the Absence of Violence / Teorrorism, which measures perceptions of the likelihood that the government will be destabilized or overthrown.
Annual
Country
Index score
Macroeconomic Outlook
PPP-Adjusted GDP
Gross domestic product (GDP) expressed in current international dollars, converted by purchasing power parities (PPPs).
Annual
Country
Current international dollars
Macroeconomic Outlook
Nominal GDP Growth Rate
Annual percentage change in nominal GDP.
Annual
Country
%
Macroeconomic Outlook
GDP Per Capita Growth Rate
Annual percentage change in GDP per capita.
Annual
Country
%
Macroeconomic Outlook
Sovereign Credit Rating
Aggregated sovereign credit rating calculated from key ratings agencies such as Moody’s, S&P and Fitch.
Monthly
Country
Index score
Macroeconomic Outlook
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in current terms.
Annual
Country
USD
Macroeconomic Outlook
Currency Volatility
5-year standard deviation of annual bilateral exchange rates relative to the USD (nominal).
Annual
Country
%
Macroeconomic Outlook
Inflation Volatility
5-year standard deviation of the annual percentage change in inflation (consumer prices).
Annual
Country
%
Macroeconomic Outlook
Inflation Rate Risk
Absolute deviation of the annual change in Consumer Price Index (%) from a 2% target rate.
Annual
Country
%
Macroeconomic Outlook
Total Inflation Risk (Rate and Volatility)
Equally-weighted combination of inflation volatility (5-year standard deviation of annual percentage change in inflation) and inflation rate risk (absolute deviation of annual change in inflation from a 2% target rate).
Annual
Country
Index score
Macroeconomic Outlook
Trade (% of GDP)
Total trade as a percentage of GDP, reflecting economic openness and trade dependency.
Annual
Country
% of GDP
Market Potential
Corporate Tax Rate
National corporate tax rate.
Annual
Country
%
Market Potential
Residential Property Price Growth
Year-on-year change in real residential property prices.
Quarterly
Country
%
Market Potential
Domestic Credit to Private Sector (% of GDP)
Loans to the private sector by domestic financial institutions.
Annual
Country
%
Migration Patterns
Net Migration
Estimate of each country’s net total international migrants, calculated as the difference between immigrants and emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens.
Annual
Country
Number of people
Migration Patterns
Migration Openness Ranking
Ranking of all countries and territories by number of visa-free destinations for their nationals.
Annual
Country
Number of countries
Migration Patterns
HNW Migration
Net millionaire migration into the country.
Annual
Country
Number of people
Migration Patterns
Digital Nomad Attractiveness
Top 500 cities for digital nomads based on attractiveness to remote workers according to cost, Wi-Fi speed, safety, weather, community and user reviews.
Annual
City
Rank
Social Wellbeing
Life Expectancy
Total life expectancy at birth.
Annual
Country
Years
Social Wellbeing
Healthcare Spending (% of GDP)
Annual health expenditure as a percentage of GDP.
Annual
Country
%
Social Wellbeing
Life Satisfaction
Average national life satisfaction score (0–10) from the World Happiness Report.
Annual
Country
Index score
Social Wellbeing
Violent Crime
Nationally reported statistics on violent offences per 100,000 residents.
Annual
Country
Incidents per 100,000 residents
Social Wellbeing
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)
Measures a country's achievements in health, education and income, while accounting for inequalities in their distribution across the population.
Annual
Country
Index score
Societal Wealth
High-Quality Affordable Retirement
Top 96 destinations across 24 countries for retirement attractiveness, based on costs, amenities, health care, language, crime and climate risk.
Annual
City
Y/N
Societal Wealth
Gross National Income (GNI) Per Capita
Gross national income per capita measured in current USD.
Annual
Country
USD
Societal Wealth
Median Post-Tax Income
Estimated median household disposable income after taxes and transfers, adjusted for inflation and PPP.
Annual
Country
International dollars
Societal Wealth
Poverty Rate (% of population)
Share of population living below poverty rates, as measured according to national poverty lines.
Annual
Country
%
Societal Wealth
Income Inequality
Income inequality measured by the national Gini coefficient.
Annual
Province
Gini coefficent
Societal Wealth
Household Debt (% of GDP)
Household debt (loans and securities) as a percentage of GDP.
Annual
Country
%
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