Overperformer

Metros where the composite score sits much higher than the population rank: concentrated capital, talent, or institutional gravity that does not require scale. San Francisco-San Jose punches 17.6x above its weight, London 14.5x, New York 14.0x. The list also surfaces less-obvious overperformers like Monaco, Macau, Geneva, Edinburgh — cities where a small population supports an outsized footprint of capital, institutions, or both. Top 100 by pop-rank-to-score-rank multiple.