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Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025

2025, 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, 2025 covers 176 countries. Estonia is highest, at 3.715; Liberia is lowest, at -2.660. The middle country reads 0.196. Against 2024, 63 values changed (37 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Cyber Security Capacity · Data for 2025

HighestEstonia

3.715

LowestLiberia

-2.660

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, 2025, 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, 2025: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1EstoniaESTNorthern Europe3.715
2IsraelISRWestern Asia3.497
3ChinaCHNEastern Asia3.226
4North KoreaPRKEastern Asia2.771
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.689
6EgyptEGYNorthern Africa2.662
7PolandPOLEastern Europe2.563
8United StatesUSANorthern America2.555
9TaiwanTWNEastern Asia2.290
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.231
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa2.223
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.163
13RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.107
14KuwaitKWTWestern Asia2.097
15SpainESPSouthern Europe2.006
16FranceFRAWestern Europe1.960
17GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.937
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe1.922
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.905
20United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia1.897
21QatarQATWestern Asia1.894
22Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.760
23MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1.710
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.633
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.629

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Estonia3.715
  2. 2Israel3.497
  3. 3China3.226
  4. 4North Korea2.771
  5. 5Singapore2.689

Lowest

  1. 176Liberia-2.660
  2. 175Haiti-2.507
  3. 174Libya-2.065
  4. 173Solomon Islands-1.869
  5. 172Malawi-1.788

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.196. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 176 in both
  • 37 · 26rose · fell
  • 113unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iceland1.538 → -0.579−2.117
  • Syria0.913 → -0.914−1.827
  • Iran0.965 → -0.660−1.625
  • Canada2.351 → 1.344−1.007
  • Malawi-0.913 → -1.788−0.875

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 2025.

  • 175 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share -0.619. 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

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2025). Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cyber-security-capacity/2025

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