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Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2011

2011, 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, 2011 covers 176 countries. Israel is highest, at 3.497; Timor-Leste is lowest, at -3.069. The middle country reads -0.323. Against 2010, 22 values changed (20 up, 2 down), 1 country joined.

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Government Cyber Security Capacity · Data for 2011

HighestIsrael

3.497

LowestTimor-Leste

-3.069

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, 2011, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2011: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia3.497
2North KoreaPRKEastern Asia2.771
3MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia2.741
4United StatesUSANorthern America2.612
5ChinaCHNEastern Asia2.570
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.548
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.240
8FranceFRAWestern Europe1.960
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia1.945
10SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.851
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.746
12TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.739
13United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia1.726
14CanadaCANNorthern America1.678
15HungaryHUNEastern Europe1.477
16TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.474
17ChileCHLSouth America1.466
=18JapanJPNEastern Asia1.422
=18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.422
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.418
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.417
22KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.343
23DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.326
24SpainESPSouthern Europe1.243
25AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand1.201

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel3.497
  2. 2North Korea2.771
  3. 3Malaysia2.741
  4. 4United States2.612
  5. 5China2.570

Lowest

  1. 176Timor-Leste-3.069
  2. 175Solomon Islands-3.050
  3. 174Sierra Leone-2.988
  4. 173Somalia-2.571
  5. 172Guinea-Bissau-2.516

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads -0.323. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 22values changed, of 175 in both
  • 20 · 2rose · fell
  • 153unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya-0.820 → -1.790−0.970
  • Egypt1.075 → 0.823−0.252
+ South Sudan

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 2011.

  • 172 distinct values among 176

    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 176 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

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

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V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2011). Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cyber-security-capacity/2011

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