Every major address by a national leader has a shape: how it invokes past, present and future; the rhetorical register it adopts; the stance it takes to its audience; who it casts as the actor; the scope it speaks to; and which of the nine national-capability domains it bears on. The Sovereign Speech Index codifies each speech across these six dimensions to benchmark the underlying structure across leaders, nations, and moments.
Explore the Index
Track every dimension over 240 years. Smoothed long-run trends and rebased annual indices for each option, side by side.
For the selected dimension: 10-year moving average of each option’s share of words, rebased to 100 at its earliest year.
Source. Sovereign Speech Index 2026 — Global Institute for National Capability.
Share of Total Words in Sovereign Speeches, by year of speech
100% stacked bar per year. Each segment = share of words tagged to that option, including unclassified.
Source. Sovereign Speech Index 2026 — Global Institute for National Capability.
Featured Speeches
Featured speeches. Most recent on the left; scroll right for more. Each row of bars is one wrapped line of monospace text; coloured blocks mark sentences that fit the chosen dimension.