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Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2002

2002, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's measure of government cyber-security capacity asks whether a state has the skilled staff and resources to protect itself against cyber attacks, from none at all to attacks by highly skilled actors. It is an expert-coded estimate on an open-ended scale centred near zero, and a higher figure means more capacity.

Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2002 covers 175 countries. Israel is highest, at 3.497; Timor-Leste is lowest, at -3.595. The middle country reads -0.514. Against 2001, 3 values changed (2 up, 1 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Cyber Security Capacity · Data for 2002

HighestIsrael

3.497

LowestTimor-Leste

-3.595

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2002, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 175 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2002: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia3.497
2North KoreaPRKEastern Asia2.771
3MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia2.608
4ChinaCHNEastern Asia2.570
5United StatesUSANorthern America2.537
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia1.945
7FranceFRAWestern Europe1.879
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.746
9CanadaCANNorthern America1.678
10HungaryHUNEastern Europe1.618
11United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia1.573
12TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.556
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.438
=14JapanJPNEastern Asia1.422
=14PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.422
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.418
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.417
18RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.351
19DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.326
20SpainESPSouthern Europe1.243
21JordanJORWestern Asia1.190
22KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.163
23New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand1.114
24Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.100
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.017

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel3.497
  2. 2North Korea2.771
  3. 3Malaysia2.608
  4. 4China2.570
  5. 5United States2.537

Lowest

  1. 175Timor-Leste-3.595
  2. 174Guinea-3.118
  3. 173Solomon Islands-3.050
  4. 172Sierra Leone-2.988
  5. 171Bosnia and Herzegovina-2.938

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads -0.514. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 3values changed, of 175 in both
  • 2 · 1rose · fell
  • 172unchanged

Rose most

  • Cuba0.316 → 0.706+0.390
  • Latvia0.025 → 0.223+0.198

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2002.

  • 172 distinct values among 175

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.422. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 175 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2002). Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cyber-security-capacity/2002

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