Current World Rankings

Based on matches up to 1st March 2024.

Ranking	Team	Played	Weighted	Points	Rating
1	Australia	45	32	6,693	209
2	New Zealand	49	34	6,425	189
3	England	48	33	6,179	187
4	Jamaica	40	26	4,863	187
5	South Africa	56	35	5,546	158
6	Uganda	50	33	4,224	128
7	Malawi	47	31	3,936	127
8	Tonga	30	24	3,032	126
9	Wales	31	21	2,423	115
10	Scotland	23	15	1,558	104
11	Northern Ireland	17	10	931	93
12	Trinidad & Tobago	28	20	1,844	92
13	Zimbabwe	40	27	2,199	81
14	Barbados	40	29	2,251	78
15	Fiji	34	26	1,980	76
16	Zambia	31	22	1,671	76
17	Samoa	22	16	1,142	71
18	St Vincent & Grenadines	24	18	1,240	69
19	Grenada	15	11	745	68
20	Namibia	36	21	1,197	57
21	UAE	14	10	569	57
22	Botswana	24	15	698	47
23	Sri Lanka	18	15	689	46
24	Singapore	32	25	1,146	46
25	Ireland	26	17	738	43
26	USA	8	4	146	37
27	Gibraltar	24	15	528	35
28	Isle of Man	27	16	546	34
29	Papua New Guinea	30	25	853	34
30	Kenya	30	21	633	30
31	Malaysia	11	6	171	29
32	Antigua & Barbuda	25	16	397	25
33	Cook Islands	11	9	210	23
34	St Maarten	9	7	142	20
35	Philippines	10	7	133	19
36	Hong Kong, China	10	7	119	17
37	St Lucia	20	14	233	17
38	Cayman Islands	24	18	294	16
39	St Kitts & Nevis	16	14	215	15
40	Eswatini	12	9	112	12
41	Dominica	12	10	120	12
42	Brunei	10	7	74	11
43	Israel	10	8	32	4
44	Tanzania	15	8	29	4
45	Malta	14	10	36	4
46	Switzerland	14	10	0	0

Points:

The number of points earned by a team for any match depends on two factors. The result (won, drawn, lost) and the opponent against whom the result was achieved. The higher an opponent’s rating the more points are earned for beating them.

If a team wins a match, they will earn 50 points more than their opponent’s rating. But if they lose, they will earn 50 points less than their opponent’s rating. Worked numerical examples, including when this rule doesn’t apply, appear in our Frequently Asked Questions.

Rating Period:

It is not meaningful for a team to claim a world ranking if they have only played a small number of matches. As soon as a team has played minimum international test matches over the rating period (the current rating period started on the 1st July 2020) then they will have earned an official world ranking. If a team has played fewer than the minimum matches, they will still have a rating, but without a corresponding ranking. To have a ranking the team must have played at least 2 games against a rated team. The current minimum number of matches is eight.

To find out more about a rating period, visit our Frequently Asked Questions.

The following teams (in alphabetical order) currently have a rating in the system and could become ranked once they have played 8 matches:

British Virgin Islands
Canada
Chinese Taipei
France
Guadeloupe
India
Maldives
Solomon Islands
Thailand

The next group of teams are full World Netball Members that are eligible to play WN ranked matches but have not yet done so, meaning they don’t have a rating or a ranking. These include:

Argentina
Bermuda
Burundi
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Lesotho
Nigeria
Pakistan

Since its inception in 2007 the WN World Rankings methodology has been reviewed regularly by the WN Board to ensure it remains a robust and reliable ranking system that presents a true reflection of the quality and standing of the performances of international teams and that this system can be used with confidence for qualification purposes.

For more definitions and explanations regarding our World Rankings please visit our Frequently Asked Questions Page on the website, where you will be able to find written examples from our statistician David Kendix.

If you’d like to go back to our World Rankings Hub page, click here.

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