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Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2013

2013, 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, 2013 covers 176 countries. Israel is highest, at 3.497; Timor-Leste is lowest, at -3.069. The middle country reads -0.206. Against 2012, 29 values changed (26 up, 3 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Cyber Security Capacity · Data for 2013

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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1IsraelISRWestern Asia3.497
2North KoreaPRKEastern Asia2.771
3MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia2.741
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.678
5ChinaCHNEastern Asia2.570
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.548
7United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia2.334
8FranceFRAWestern Europe1.960
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia1.945
10United StatesUSANorthern America1.896
11CanadaCANNorthern America1.888
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.851
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe1.818
14United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe1.746
15TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.739
16SpainESPSouthern Europe1.660
17KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.652
18TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.633
19JapanJPNEastern Asia1.518
20HungaryHUNEastern Europe1.477
21ChileCHLSouth America1.466
22PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.422
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.418
24FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.417
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe1.409

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Israel3.497
  2. 2North Korea2.771
  3. 3Malaysia2.741
  4. 4Russia2.678
  5. 5China2.570

Lowest

  1. 176Timor-Leste-3.069
  2. 175Solomon Islands-3.050
  3. 174Guinea-Bissau-2.516
  4. 173Liberia-2.402
  5. 172Guinea-2.372

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads -0.206. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 29values changed, of 176 in both
  • 26 · 3rose · fell
  • 147unchanged

Rose most

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 2013.

  • 174 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.127. 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 (2013). Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cyber-security-capacity/2013

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