Data access and license - China Index Methodology

Where to find the data

What	Where
Country Profiles, Domain Profiles and Indicator Scoreboards	china-index.io
Raw data (CSV and JSON)	China-Index-raw-data on GitHub, one folder per edition

Every change to the repository is recorded in its Git history. To make your work reproducible, note the date you downloaded the data or the commit you used.

Files in the 2024 folder

File	Contents
`china_index_2024.csv`	One row per Indicator, one column per country (wide format).
`china_index_2024_indicator_by_country.csv`	One row per Indicator and country, with region and Layer (long format).
`indicator_2023.json`	Indicator text, Domain, Layer and grading type for all 99 Indicators.
`iso.json`	ISO 3166 country codes and names (for mapping).
`country_json/`	One file per country, as used for the Country Profiles.
`website_json_file/`	Scores, rankings and lists used by china-index.io.

Reading the values

Value	Meaning
`0`–`4`	Indicator score. Simple Yes-No Indicators use only 0 and 4; Diplomatic Position Indicators use 0, 2 and 4. See Scoring and ranking.
`na`	The Indicator was skipped for that country. It is left out of that country’s maximum score.

Indicator numbers run from 1 to 99 in Domain order. To compare a 2026 Indicator with the 2024 edition, check Indicator changes first: only Indicators that are unchanged, or changed only in grammar, can be read side by side.

License

The China Index data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). You may share and adapt it, including commercially, if you credit Doublethink Lab and the China Index edition you used, with a link to china-index.io, and release what you build from it under the same license.

Corrections

What the results are, and how to ask for a correction or send a reply, is set out in About these results and corrections.