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Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2013

2013, as UNCTAD’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

UNCTAD's Frontier Technology Readiness Index measures how ready a country is to use, adopt and adapt frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and blockchain. It combines five building blocks — ICT infrastructure, skills, research and patenting, high-tech industry and access to finance — into one score from 0 to 1.

Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2013 covers 171 countries on 6 measures. Germany is highest, at 1.0000; South Sudan is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.4627. Against 2012, 169 values changed (35 up, 134 down), the same countries are covered.

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Frontier Technology Readiness Index · Data for 2013

HighestGermany

1.0000

LowestSouth Sudan

0.0000

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2013, as published. UNCTAD ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 171 countries · select a heading to sort

Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2013: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.00000.89410.76380.86440.85050.8962
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.99920.90190.74940.77020.86220.9511
3United StatesUSANorthern America0.99290.68280.76490.98220.81350.9702
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.98940.99040.80250.53171.00000.9181
5South KoreaKOREastern Asia0.97741.00000.70950.83160.76210.9372
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.97300.84340.83130.71330.83560.9260
7SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia0.95890.93050.83130.57870.86640.9339
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.95410.92870.85550.64420.71920.9666
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.95330.86500.76270.65870.86090.9385
10AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.95030.82921.00000.69630.54210.9344
=11BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.94840.94920.86190.63090.73120.8615
=11SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.94840.79000.72730.69770.90380.9596
13FranceFRAWestern Europe0.94690.82700.72290.80170.82840.9104
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.92880.86080.77680.62570.81430.9074
15CanadaCANNorthern America0.91920.78920.71620.74840.75850.9340
16JapanJPNEastern Asia0.90370.87320.51220.83330.79970.9582
17IsraelISRWestern Asia0.89930.76530.74440.61300.91530.8743
18New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.89390.92950.86300.54600.54460.9507
19LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.88380.84320.77180.40480.86800.9010
20ItalyITASouthern Europe0.87180.77430.66460.74680.73070.9053
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.87030.82510.69840.64050.75180.9070
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.85410.81510.70430.47070.83050.9858
23NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.84770.71700.82030.56820.62310.9340
24ChinaCHNEastern Asia0.83540.56570.42831.00000.83570.9412
25SpainESPSouthern Europe0.82360.61930.67680.73050.66930.9492

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Germany1.0000
  2. 2United Kingdom0.9992
  3. 3United States0.9929
  4. 4Ireland0.9894
  5. 5South Korea0.9774

Lowest

  1. 171South Sudan0.0000
  2. 170Sierra Leone0.0143
  3. 169Chad0.1104
  4. 168Burundi0.1159
  5. 167Guinea-Bissau0.1526

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.4627. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • ICT deployment

    HighestSouth Korea1.0000

    LowestNiger0.0000

    Middle country: 0.5536

  • Skills

    HighestAustralia1.0000

    LowestSouth Sudan0.0000

    Middle country: 0.4310

  • Research and development

    HighestChina1.0000

    Lowest21 share it

    Middle country: 0.1810

  • Industry activity

    HighestIreland1.0000

    LowestAlgeria0.0000

    Middle country: 0.4502

  • Access to finance

    HighestCyprus1.0000

    LowestSierra Leone0.0000

    Middle country: 0.8296

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 169values changed, of 171 in both
  • 35 · 134rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNCTAD’s 2025 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.

  • 169 distinct values among 171

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 0.9484. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 171 countries has every column.

05The files

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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2013). Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/frontier-technology-readiness/2013

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