Frontier Technology Readiness Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: frontier-technology-readiness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Frontier Technology Readiness Index (0–1)is built fromICT deploymentSkillsResearch and developmentIndustry activityAccess to finance

Every column in the newest file of Frontier Technology Readiness Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	170	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	170	0
Frontier Technology Readiness Index (0–1)ftri_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: Frontier Technology Readiness Index (0–1).	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.0000Sierra Leone1.0000United Statesmiddle 0.4849	168	0
ICT deploymentict_deploymentPart of the headline	ICT deployment block: the share of people using the internet and mean download speed, scored 0–1.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.0000Burundi1.0000Icelandmiddle 0.6820	167	0
SkillsskillsPart of the headline	Skills block: expected years of schooling and the share of high-skill jobs, scored 0–1.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.0000South Sudan1.0000Australiamiddle 0.4500	169	0
Research and developmentresearch_developmentPart of the headline	R&D activity block: scientific publications and patents on frontier technologies, scored 0–1.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.000010 share it1.0000Chinamiddle 0.2620	144	0
Industry activityindustry_activityPart of the headline	Industry activity block: exports of high-technology manufactures and of digitally-deliverable services, scored 0–1.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.0000Bhutan1.0000Irelandmiddle 0.4455	167	0
Access to financeaccess_to_financePart of the headline	Access to finance block: domestic credit to the private sector, scored 0–1.	Number · up to 4 decimals	0.0000Sierra Leone1.0000Hong Kongmiddle 0.8293	165	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.

The newest 12 of 14 years.

Not in this dataset · 54 places this site covers

UNCTAD 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 SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandSyriaTaiwanTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

   unctadstat.unctad.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Frontier Technology Readiness Index 2023

   US_FTRI

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   14 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as frontier-technology-readiness-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/frontier-technology-readiness

Read from UNCTAD's own US.FTRI bulk file on UNCTADstat, the data behind the Technology and Innovation Report. Rows of UNCTAD's file that repeat another country's numbers exactly are left out; every other value is stored as published, with the five building blocks beside the headline.

• Charted

  Frontier Technology Readiness Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Digital & Technology
  • Economy & Innovation

• Near neighbours

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