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Ayman Nour

Ayman Nour

🇪🇬Egypt

Rank #273
Score: 48
About Ayman Nour

Ayman Nour is an Egyptian opposition politician, founder of the Al-Ghad party, and an outspoken critic of entrenched power. He rose to prominence as an electoral challenger and has faced arrests and prosecutions that his supporters described as politically motivated. Nour’s career highlights issues of political contestation, human rights, and legal constraints on opposition activity in Egypt.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
0.754 (Egypt national HDI context)5/10
Source: UNDP Human Development Report — Egypt (2010)
GDP per capita
Contextual GDP per capita (various years)5/10
Source: World Bank — Egypt data (2010)
Gini coefficient
Gini estimates (World Bank surveys)3/10
Source: World Bank — Gini index (Egypt) (2010)
Employment rate
Employment to population ratio (national estimates)3/5
Source: ILOSTAT — Egypt employment data (2010)
Freedom index
Freedom House assessments covering contemporary Egypt (constraints on opposition activity)3/10
Source: Freedom House — Egypt country report (2023)
Corruption index
CPI — Transparency International reporting on Egypt (ongoing concerns)3/5
Source: Transparency International — Egypt country page (2023)

Derived Criminal Score
Arrests and politically charged prosecutions reported (2005 trial and others) — convictions / sentences reported historically13/20
Source: Press reporting & court records (Ayman Nour trials) (2005)