Ukraine ranked 20th in the annual Global Firepower (GFP) military power ranking for 2025 among 145 countries, while in the 2024 ranking it ranked 18th, according to the resource’s data.
According to Ukraine’s GFP data, its PowerIndex (PwrIndx) in the 2025 ranking is 0.3755 (in the GFP methodology, a lower value means a higher assessment of potential).
The GFP ranking is calculated based on more than 60 factors, including the structure and size of the forces, the availability of equipment, financial parameters, logistics, and geographical characteristics.
Global Firepower is an online project that was officially launched in 2005 and publishes annual comparative reviews of countries’ military capabilities; however, the composition of factors and the assessment formula change from year to year, which means that direct comparisons between different years may be limited in their accuracy. The ranking is widely cited in the media as a benchmark for comparing “conventional” capabilities, but it is not an official assessment by government agencies and is based on publicly available statistics and assumptions about a number of parameters.
The top 20 in the GFP-2025 ranking include: the United States, Russia, China, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, Pakistan, Indonesia, Germany, Israel, Iran, Spain, Australia, Egypt, and Ukraine.
At the end of the second half of 2025, Ukraine ranked 111th out of 147 economies in the AI diffusion ranking prepared by Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute. According to the report, Ukraine’s AI Diffusion index for the second half of 2025 was 9.0%, compared to 9.1% in the first half of the year (a change of -0.1 p.p.).
For comparison, the index is significantly higher in a number of countries in the region: Poland – 28.5%, Romania – 16.2%, Moldova – 17.0% (H2 2025). At the bottom of the list, next to Ukraine, are Belarus (8.4%) and Russia (8.0%, 119th place).
The research methodology describes the indicator as an estimate of the share of the working-age population actively using AI tools, based on anonymized Microsoft telemetry and adjustments for device access; the authors also note a strong link between the spread of AI and the level of economic development.
The top ten in the ranking include the UAE (64.0%), Singapore (60.9%), Norway (46.4%), Ireland (44.6%), France (44.0%), Spain (41.8%), New Zealand (40.5%), the Netherlands (38.9%), the United Kingdom (38.9%), and Qatar (38.3%).
The bottom ten include Laos (6.7%), Armenia (6.6%), Sri Lanka (6.6%), Uzbekistan (6.3%), Rwanda (6.3%), Cuba (6.1%), Afghanistan (5.6%), Tajikistan (5.6%), Turkmenistan (5.6%), and Cambodia (5.1%).
Ukraine appears in the list of countries included in an international study of narcissistic traits based on surveys in 53 countries, and ranks 34th out of 53 in terms of the integral indicator.
According to the materials, the study is based on surveys of more than 45,000 respondents from 53 countries and uses the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ) scale, which divides narcissism into two components – “admiration” (self-presentation, desire for recognition) and “rivalry” (devaluation of others, conflict).
The “bottom five” countries in terms of the total score were Serbia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Denmark.
The “top five” countries, according to the sources, were Germany, Iraq, China, Nepal, and South Korea.
The United States, according to this data, ranked 16th out of 53.
According to the description of the methodology, the researchers used the NARQ questionnaire and separately analyzed the components of “admiration” and “rivalry,” then compared the average country values. Publications summarizing the results also note that this is not a measurement of the proportion of people with a clinical diagnosis, but a comparison of the average self-assessments of traits in the sample.
In Numbeo’s European sample (Europe: Current Crime Index by City), the highest Crime Index is recorded in Marseille (France) – 66.7. It is followed by Birmingham (UK) – 63.8, Grenoble (France) – 62.6, Naples (Italy) – 62.3, and Coventry (UK) – 61.7.
At the bottom of the European list, i.e., among the most peaceful cities according to the ranking, are The Hague (Netherlands) – 19.9, Tampere (Finland) – 20.4, Eindhoven (Netherlands) – 20.9, as well as Trondheim (Norway) and Utrecht (Netherlands) – 21.0 each.
Numbeo publishes crime/safety indices based on user surveys. The current version is continuously updated and is based on data from the last five years. The project has been running since 2009 and is widely cited in the media and city comparison services, but the indicators reflect subjective perceptions of safety and are not a substitute for official statistics.
Several Ukrainian cities are represented in the current Numbeo Crime Index ranking. Odesa has the highest score among them (55.2), followed by Dnipro (53.7), Kharkiv (47.2), Kyiv (45.5), and Lviv (37.2).
In Numbeo’s global list, these cities are ranked as follows: Odesa – 160th, Dnipro – 177th, Kharkiv – 233rd, Kyiv – 247th, and Lviv – 320th.
The bottom of the current global ranking is occupied by Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) – 82.8 and Pretoria (South Africa) – 81.8, while Abu Dhabi (UAE) – 11.0 is listed as the safest city in the table. In Europe, Marseille has the highest Crime Index (66.7) and The Hague has the lowest (19.9).
Numbeo was launched in April 2009. The Crime Index is based on user surveys and reflects a subjective assessment of safety rather than statistics on reported crimes. The current rating is continuously updated and is based on data from the last five years, so the results should be interpreted as an indicator of perception and used in conjunction with official sources.
PrivatBank ranked 37th in the ranking of the world’s 150 largest acquirers according to the international analytical publication Nilson Report based on the results of 2024, improving its result from last year by three places.
According to the ranking, PrivatBank provided 3 billion 461.3 million purchase transactions made with bank cards.
The Ukrainian bank is 1.2 million behind Chile’s Transbank, which is in the lead, but is 154.2 million transactions ahead of Brazil’s StoneCo, which is in second place.
PrivatBank remains the only Ukrainian representative in the top 150 ranking of the world’s leading banks and financial acquiring companies in terms of the number of payments made with bank cards in the retail network.
At the end of 2024, the bank also rose to 16th place among the 20 largest acquirers in Europe.
“Acquiring is a very cool business, and we are truly a leader in this sector. It combines the needs of retail customers and business customers. Thanks to the products offered alongside acquiring, customers can buy more and sellers can sell more: credit cards, payment in installments, instant installment plans, and so on,” explained Yevhen Zaigraev, member of the PrivatBank board for corporate business and SMEs, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, the bank knows its customers well—retailers and their statistics—and has even created a separate focus in the corporate segment, focused on various types of retail.
Zaigraev clarified that, unlike mobile operators, the bank does not sell anonymized data from its database, but, like any other bank, uses the accumulated data for analytics in order to make better decisions based on modeling.
“Data is, of course, an advantage. For example, thanks to this information, we have better risk models to provide even higher quality loans. Thanks to this data, we can predict, and have already created models, which products customers need or do not need. As a result, we sell with a much higher conversion rate: depending on the product, 5-7 times higher,” said a member of PrivatBank’s board.
According to him, taking into account things such as AI (artificial intelligence), the potential for using data is very high.
According to the Nilson Report ranking, Russia’s Sberbank became the world’s largest acquirer with an annual volume of nearly 52.1 billion transactions, followed by JPMorgan in the US with 50.8 billion, and Worldpay with 48 billion transactions.
The Nilson Report is a leading international analytical publication specializing in research on the global market for payment cards, electronic payments, and acquiring.
According to PrivatBank, in the first nine months of 2025, Ukrainians paid for goods and services worth UAH 900 billion through the bank’s acquiring ecosystem, which is 20% more than in the same period of 2024.
At the same time, card payments through the Terminal app increased by almost 70% to UAH 10.8 billion, and through the LiqPay internet acquiring service to about UAH 66 billion since the beginning of 2025.
