The Elite Quality Index, the leading global political economy index, is a comparative ranking measuring the sustainability of nations that assesses whether elites create value and expand a nation's knowledge capabilities or use their power to rent, seek and maximize their own profits by transferring value from their stakeholders. The EQx2025 uses 149 indicators to analyze 151 countries and measures conceptual elements such as power, creative destruction and unearned income to determine whether the elites of a given country create or extract value from their nation.