Dataset · Oxford Insights
Government AI Readiness Index
6 years, 2020–2025 · 195 countries
Oxford Insights’ Government AI Readiness Index scores how prepared a government is to use artificial intelligence in the public services it delivers, out of 100, across government, technology sector and data infrastructure. It measures capability to adopt, not how much AI a country builds.
This site holds every year from 2020 to 2025, read from Oxford Insights’ own data and stored exactly as published.
Government AI Readiness Index · the file
- Newest
- Government AI Readiness Index, 2025
- Held
- 6 years · 1,089 rows
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
016 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government AI Readiness Index, 2025Newest | 195 | +7 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Government AI Readiness Index, 2024 | 188 | −5 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Government AI Readiness Index, 2023 | 193 | +12 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Government AI Readiness Index, 2022 | 181 | +21 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Government AI Readiness Index, 2021 | 160 | +4 −16 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| Government AI Readiness Index, 2020 | 172 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: ai-readiness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank | Oxford Insights’s own rank, exactly as printed. | Number · whole numbers | 1 United States195 Guinea-Bissaumiddle 98 | 195 | 0 | |
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 195 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 195 | 0 | |
AI readiness score (0–100)ai_readinessHeadline | The headline figure: AI readiness score (0–100). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 12.12Guinea-Bissau88.36United Statesmiddle 40.19 | 192 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03195 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 46 | 45 | 52 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 34 | 28 | 33 | 35 | 34 | 35 |
| Asia | 45 | 44 | 47 | 49 | 48 | 49 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 40 | 43 | 42 | 43 |
| Oceania | 8 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 14 |
| All | 172 | 160 | 181 | 193 | 188 | 195 |
Who joined and who left
- 2025
+ Dominica
+ Micronesia
+ Monaco
+ Nauru
+ Palau
+ North Korea
+ Tuvalu - 2024− Dominica− Monaco− Nauru− North Korea− Tuvalu
- 2023+ Dominica
+ Equatorial Guinea
+ Saint Kitts and Nevis
+ Liechtenstein+ Monaco
+ Marshall Islands+ Nauru+ North Korea
+ Palestine
+ San Marino
+ Somalia+ Tuvalu - 2022
+ Andorra
+ Antigua and Barbuda
+ Bahamas
+ Comoros
+ Djibouti
+ Eritrea+ Guinea-Bissau
+ Grenada
+ Guyana
+ Kiribati
+ Libya
+ Solomon Islands
+ South Sudan
+ São Tomé and Príncipe
+ Syria
+ Turkmenistan
+ Timor-Leste
+ Tonga
+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
+ Vanuatu
+ Samoa - 2021
+ Central African Republic
+ Liberia
+ Papua New Guinea
+ Taiwan− Antigua and Barbuda− Comoros− Djibouti− Dominica− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Guyana− Kiribati− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Solomon Islands− Syria− Timor-Leste− Tonga− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Vanuatu− Samoa
Not in this dataset · 30 places this site covers
Oxford Insights gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kosovo
Macau
Montserrat
New Caledonia
NiueNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Oxford Insights
2 · Their file
Government AI Readiness Index 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
6 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as ai-readiness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/ai-readinessA key for Digital & Technology in the Country Index.
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From Oxford Insights’ published index tables, with the three pillar scores stored alongside the overall score.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 5, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
- Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence
Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.
A credit line
Source: Oxford Insights, Government AI Readiness Index, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Oxford Insights. Government AI Readiness Index, 2020–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/ai-readiness
The publisher’s own citation: Oxford Insights. Government AI Readiness Index. London: Oxford Insights.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Government AI Readiness Index: questions and answers
What is the Government AI Readiness Index?
Oxford Insights’ Government AI Readiness Index scores how prepared a government is to use artificial intelligence in the public services it delivers, out of 100, across government, technology sector and data infrastructure. It measures capability to adopt, not how much AI a country builds.
Which years of the Government AI Readiness Index can I download?
All 6, from 2020 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does Oxford Insights rank countries on it?
Yes. The rank in these files is Oxford Insights’s own, exactly as printed.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to Oxford Insights. The licence text is linked on this page.