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The FIFA World Ranking orders 211 men's and 204 women's national teams from their official match results, on two independent Men's/Women's schedules. It is not a tournament forecast — it measures how consistently a team has performed over several years of competition.
Points computed by FIFA with an Elo-style method — match importance, score margin, opponent strength — republished after every international window, roughly every 4 to 6 weeks. This is a snapshot, not a per-country time series: the map shows the most recent ranking available. The United Kingdom has no shared shading: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland play under their own FIFA colours and appear separately.
The scale is continuous, calibrated on the actual point distribution of each tab — two neighbouring countries in the ranking can carry almost the same colour. The Men's and Women's scales differ: the gap between the top and bottom of the ranking is wider on the women's side.
Spain sits first both among men (ahead of Argentina, France, England and Brazil) and among women (ahead of the United States, Germany, England and Japan) — an unprecedented double lead. The ranking measures past results, not a forecast: a team can top it without winning the next tournament.