Where and with what speed is our country moving? Objective answers to these questions are critically important for the future of our country. They will determine the level of Western partners’ support of Ukraine's, investment inflows and, eventually, economic growth. But even more importantly, Ukrainians themselves must have access to objective information - without this, a young democracy has little chance. There is no single index or ranking to answer these questions, but almost forty of the most representative global indexes give quite an objective picture of Ukraine’s successes and failures. For your convenience, apart from the general list, we divided the rankings into different areas, visualized the dynamics over the last six years and showed the geographical and global neighbors of Ukraine in the rankings.
Figures can speak, and you can draw a conclusion. We tried to select the most representative indexes and make the disparate information more user-friendly. It should be remembered that each rating uses a different methodology and can rely on previous years’ information, which leads to a certain delay in responding to the current state of affairs. At the first stage, VoxUkraine analysts selected more than 50 most cited international rankings, in which Ukraine is represented. To finalize the list, we asked about 10 experts from different fields which indexes and ratings concerning their professional interests are most representative and relevant. At the second stage of the project, we divided most of the indexes into five areas: Economics, Freedoms, Human Capital, Corruption and State and Security. To level the effect of changing the total number of countries in the ranking and to objectively show and compare the dynamics of all the indexes that are part of a separate area, we indexed the results ranging from 0 to 1 (where 1 is the best possible result in the ranking, and 0 is the worst). Author of the idea – Volodymyr Kadygrob / Zeitgeist Design, Nataliya Popovych
Co-author – Sevgil Musayeva / Ukrayinska Pravda
Art director – Oles Gergun
Consultant – Mykhailo Smetana
Coordinator – Yevheniya Oliynyk
Development – Grybanovskiy Oleksiy
Calculations and content – VoxUkraine: Borys Davydenko, Oleksandr Nadelnyuk, Olena Mazhuha, Kateryna Myachina

The team expresses acknowledgement to:
Yaroslava Johnson, Vladyslav Rashkovan, Andriy Bulakh, Vitaliy Bigday, Tymofiy Milovanov, Arina Satovska and all those who supported. We invited independent experts with a verified international expertise. We are grateful to Olena Bilan, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Mykhailo Minakov, Olga Kupets and Michael Kofman for comments.