Country Risk March 1999: In search of a safe haven

For this, our 27th ranking of the world's countries by creditworthiness, we have altered the scoring slightly. We have included a measure of per capita income into the score given for economic performance. This has boosted the ranking of a number of countries - especially smaller ones -which were previously penalized because little data was available on their economic performance (see methodology).

For historical country risk data please visit the Euromoney Country risk website

For this, our 27th ranking of the world’s countries by creditworthiness, we have altered the scoring slightly. We have included a measure of per capita income into the score given for economic performance. This has boosted the ranking of a number of countries – especially smaller ones -which were previously penalized because little data was available on their economic performance (see methodology).

The change has exaggerated a trend which has been increasingly noticeable over the last two years.