Country Risk Monitor — Economics + OFAC Sanctions + Disaster Risk

Comprehensive country risk profiles from four government data sources in a single API call. Built for supply chain teams, FDI analysts, compliance officers, and insurance underwriters.

What it does

Building a country risk model requires pulling from multiple sources: economic indicators, sanctions lists, geography, and disaster history. This Actor handles all four in parallel and produces a composite risk score with individual dimension scores.

Source	Data	License
World Bank API	GDP per capita, GDP growth, inflation, unemployment, debt-to-GDP	CC-BY 4.0
OFAC (US Treasury)	Sanctions status, active sanction programs (IRAN, CUBA, RUSSIA, etc.)	US Government Public Domain
USGS Earthquake Catalog	Earthquake frequency and magnitude over N years	US Government Public Domain
REST Countries	Population, area, capital, languages, coordinates	MPL 2.0

Input

{
  "countries": ["US", "JP", "IR", "RU", "BR"],
  "years": 5
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
countries	string[]	["US", "JP", "BR"]	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes
years	number	5	Lookback period for earthquake data (1–10)

Output

{
  "countryCode": "IR",
  "countryInfo": {
    "name": "Iran",
    "capital": "Tehran",
    "population": 87590873,
    "region": "Asia"
  },
  "economics": {
    "gdpPerCapita": 4683.2,
    "gdpGrowth": 3.8,
    "inflation": 44.5,
    "unemployment": 9.1,
    "debtToGdp": 38.2
  },
  "earthquakeRisk": {
    "count": 31,
    "maxMagnitude": 5.9,
    "avgMagnitude": 4.7,
    "periodYears": 5
  },
  "sanctionsStatus": {
    "isSanctioned": true,
    "programs": ["IRAN", "IFSR"],
    "sanctionLevel": "COMPREHENSIVE",
    "source": "OFAC (US Treasury Department)"
  },
  "riskAssessment": {
    "economicRiskScore": 4,
    "naturalDisasterRiskScore": 3,
    "sanctionRiskScore": 4,
    "totalRiskScore": 11,
    "riskLevel": "CRITICAL"
  }
}

Risk Score Logic

Economic risk (0–6): inflation >10% (+2), unemployment >15% (+2), GDP growth <-2% (+2)

Natural disaster risk (0–3): earthquake count >20 (+3), >5 (+2), >0 (+1)

Sanction risk (0–4): comprehensive sanctions (+4), partial (+2), none (0)

Total → Risk level: CRITICAL (≥6), HIGH (≥4), MEDIUM (≥2), LOW (<2)

Use Cases

• Supply chain due diligence — screen supplier countries before onboarding
• FDI / market entry analysis — composite risk score across economic + political + natural dimensions
• Trade finance compliance — OFAC sanctions check integrated with economic context
• Insurance underwriting — risk profiling for political risk and export credit policies
• ESG reporting — country-level risk factors for portfolio companies

Why this beats building it yourself

Four API integrations (World Bank multi-indicator fetch, OFAC XML parsing with program extraction, USGS geospatial query, REST Countries), composite scoring across three risk dimensions, and parallel fetching. A developer building this from scratch needs a full day minimum.

Attribution

• World Bank Open Data: https://data.worldbank.org
• OFAC Sanctions List: https://ofac.treasury.gov
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program: https://earthquake.usgs.gov
• REST Countries: https://restcountries.com