🍽️Cuisine Diversity

How the Raw Value Is Calculated

The raw value is a Nomadino cuisine-diversity index from 0 to 100 points. It does not judge whether one cuisine tastes better, but how broad and internationally visible a country’s culinary variety is.

The calculation considers documented local and regional cuisines, diversity of cuisine tags in everyday food places, international availability, culinary heritage, protected geographical indications and cultural influences through migration.

OpenStreetMap/Taginfo, Wikidata, TasteAtlas, UNESCO lists, GI registers and World Bank migration data are harmonised onto a common 0-100 scale. Small or low-data territories use regional and administrative comparators as fallbacks so incomplete OSM coverage is not penalised automatically.

For inhabited small island states and low-data territories, Nomadino also applies a cautious minimum rating so low public visibility is not confused with absent local cuisine.

The score equals the raw value. Restaurant density, market quality, street food, authenticity and freshness remain separate indicators; they are used here only as plausibility checks so the food-culture indicators do not contradict each other.