Vatican

Holy See / Vatican City: Data Availability Note

The fact bundle available for this entry contains no current data. Every figure on file describes the Papal States, the polity that preceded the modern Vatican City State, not the Holy See as it exists today, and the entry carries no gross domestic product, population, reserves, government-debt, or energy series of any kind.

What is on record

Two capability figures appear, both attributed to the Correlates of War National Material Capabilities dataset (COW NMC) and dated 1860: active personnel of 19,000 and a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 0.0045924117. These describe the Papal States, the pre-unification Italian polity that preceded the present Vatican City State, not the Holy See as it exists today.

Three governance indicators appear from V-Dem v15, each dated 1870: an electoral democracy score of 0.026, a liberal democracy score of 0.027, and a state capacity score of 0.276. These likewise describe the Papal States in the period immediately following their dissolution and loss of territory, not the contemporary Vatican.

Data gaps

This entry should be read as a case study in historical-data limitations rather than a current assessment. There is no economic data (GDP, GDP per capita, reserves, debt), no energy data, and no military-expenditure series on file. The only two data categories present are both roughly a century and a half old and describe a predecessor state rather than the present one. No claim about the Holy See's current capacity, governance, or economy can be supported from this bundle.

Sources: COW NMC; V-Dem v15.