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Denys Shmyhal

Denys Shmyhal

🇺🇦Ukraine

Rank #285
Score: 47
About Denys Shmyhal

Denys Shmyhal (b.1975) has served as Prime Minister of Ukraine since March 2020. A former regional governor and business/administration executive, his government has focused on economic continuity, wartime logistics and rebuilding planning; his role combines technocratic economic management with coalition politics under wartime constraints.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Ukraine HDI ≈ 0.734 (country-level UNDP)6/10
Source: UNDP — Ukraine HDI note (2024)
GDP per capita
Ukraine GDP per capita (World Bank country page) — wartime economic context4/10
Source: World Bank — Ukraine country data (2023)
Gini coefficient
Ukraine Gini index ~25.6 (2020 survey)3/10
Source: TheGlobalEconomy — Ukraine Gini index (2020)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio (ILO / WB estimates; country context)3/5
Source: ILOSTAT / World Bank — Ukraine labour indicators (2021)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Ukraine country report (democratic institutions and wartime context)5/10
Source: Freedom House — Ukraine profile (2023)
Corruption index
Transparency International — CPI (Ukraine context, improvements but low overall)2/5
Source: Transparency International — CPI 2023 (country index) (2023)

Derived Criminal Score
No public final convictions recorded (no convictions found in public domain)20/20
Source: Public record / press (no convictions) (2025)