Data for 2023

Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2023

Name: Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2023
Creator: UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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2023, 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, 2023 covers 170 countries on 6 measures. United States is highest, at 1.0000; Sierra Leone is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.4849. Against 2022, 168 values changed (56 up, 112 down), the same countries are covered.

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Frontier Technology Readiness Index · Data for 2023

HighestUnited States

1.0000

LowestSierra Leone

0.0000

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

170countries
6measures per country
2023the year it describes
168distinct values4 decimals, as published
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Every country and every column of Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2023, as published. UNCTAD ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2023: every country, as published by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
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1	United States`USA`Northern America	1.0000	0.9338	0.8003	0.9123	0.7914	0.9776
2	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	0.9726	0.8879	0.9548	0.6696	0.8494	0.9369
3	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	0.9601	0.8862	0.8607	0.7614	0.8200	0.9330
4	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	0.9532	0.9385	0.9097	0.6785	0.8231	0.9021
5	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	0.9423	0.8930	0.9144	0.6300	0.8791	0.9391
6	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	0.9345	0.8664	0.8160	0.6908	0.8820	0.9650
7	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.9260	0.8918	0.7100	0.8284	0.8205	0.9681
8	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	0.9251	0.8632	0.7994	0.7988	0.8207	0.8984
9	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	0.9095	0.8631	0.8791	0.5842	1.0000	0.7906
10	France`FRA`Western Europe	0.9028	0.9194	0.7646	0.7300	0.7644	0.9271
11	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	0.8981	0.8358	0.8886	0.6148	0.8035	0.9072
12	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	0.8974	0.8945	0.8858	0.6084	0.7822	0.8839
13	Canada`CAN`Northern America	0.8947	0.9256	0.7539	0.7190	0.7088	0.9355
14	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	0.8901	0.8731	0.7796	0.5670	0.9089	1.0000
15	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	0.8860	0.8518	0.8006	0.6193	0.8766	0.8819
16	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	0.8687	0.8160	1.0000	0.6863	0.4870	0.9382
17	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	0.8686	0.9591	0.8278	0.4726	0.7155	0.9120
18	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	0.8617	0.9047	0.9042	0.5885	0.5775	0.9375
19	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	0.8592	0.8228	0.8842	0.6164	0.7145	0.9516
20	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	0.8436	0.8910	0.5296	0.7519	0.7844	0.9769
21	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	0.8393	0.6068	0.5235	1.0000	0.8536	0.9774
22	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	0.8375	0.9272	0.7311	0.6778	0.6566	0.8948
23	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	0.8187	0.8913	0.9198	0.4955	0.5200	0.9480
24	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	0.8109	0.8097	0.6856	0.7154	0.7212	0.8748
25	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	0.8058	0.8269	0.7426	0.6068	0.7194	0.8993
26	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	0.7960	0.9094	0.7333	0.3701	0.8438	0.8811
27	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.7830	0.8630	0.7048	0.6031	0.7081	0.8168
28	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	0.7786	0.8773	0.8068	0.4267	0.7911	0.8224
29	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	0.7695	1.0000	0.9153	0.3192	0.4457	0.9060
30	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	0.7694	0.8714	0.7459	0.4331	0.7275	0.8656
31	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	0.7681	0.8754	0.7416	0.5455	0.5952	0.8965
32	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	0.7649	0.7818	0.7066	0.5433	0.7840	0.8503
33	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	0.7519	0.8232	0.7326	0.6546	0.4827	0.8583
34	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	0.7419	0.9091	0.6161	0.4550	0.7245	0.8705
35	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	0.7400	0.8102	0.7007	0.5581	0.6310	0.8739
36	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.7388	0.6194	0.3712	0.8706	0.8234	0.8510
37	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	0.7368	0.7862	0.6943	0.4577	0.6856	0.8765
38	Brazil`BRA`South America	0.7365	0.8270	0.5463	0.6477	0.5956	0.8842
39	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	0.7278	0.8315	0.6450	0.4833	0.7839	0.8120
40	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	0.7251	0.8599	0.7617	0.4179	0.6299	0.8181
41	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	0.7248	0.7951	0.7934	0.5294	0.5495	0.8511
42	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	0.7197	0.8394	0.7556	0.3967	0.6791	0.7967
43	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	0.7188	0.8008	0.4791	0.5623	0.8164	0.9301
44	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.6988	0.7091	0.7112	0.6655	0.4758	0.8512
45	Chile`CHL`South America	0.6951	0.8726	0.6583	0.5047	0.3497	0.9238
46	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	0.6891	0.8784	0.5184	0.5234	0.6796	0.7784
47	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	0.6808	0.8251	0.4663	0.5256	0.6662	0.9558
48	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	0.6710	0.8095	0.5428	0.4229	0.7129	0.8194
49	Uruguay`URY`South America	0.6687	0.8919	0.6246	0.2935	0.6056	0.7995
50	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	0.6669	0.7762	0.6905	0.6396	0.2867	0.8543
51	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	0.6623	0.7487	0.5476	0.4598	0.6944	0.8421
52	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	0.6459	0.7191	0.5048	0.5002	0.5685	0.9077
53	Argentina`ARG`South America	0.6307	0.7811	0.6930	0.4326	0.4602	0.7177
54	Mexico`MEX`Central America	0.6288	0.7373	0.4720	0.5363	0.6804	0.8129
55	Colombia`COL`South America	0.6280	0.7373	0.6230	0.5098	0.4270	0.8357
56	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0.6268	0.8026	0.5624	0.2640	0.5971	0.9090
57	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	0.6267	0.7385	0.5663	0.4617	0.5447	0.7796
58	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	0.6179	0.8319	0.6545	0.2930	0.4590	0.8785
59	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	0.6156	0.7053	0.6389	0.3878	0.5820	0.8471
60	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.6107	0.7407	0.3837	0.4043	0.8279	0.8475
61	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	0.6069	0.7606	0.6265	0.2847	0.6043	0.8005
62	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	0.6054	0.7683	0.5537	0.2132	0.7066	0.8528
63	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	0.6023	0.8613	0.5175	0.2116	0.6260	0.8611
64	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0.5985	0.7046	0.3372	0.4579	0.7684	0.9368
65	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	0.5984	0.8205	0.5653	0.2541	0.5148	0.8869
66	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	0.5813	0.6548	0.6325	0.3761	0.5783	0.7901
67	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	0.5629	0.6730	0.3735	0.4977	0.5614	0.8985
68	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	0.5557	0.7563	0.4213	0.4389	0.4754	0.8971
69	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	0.5534	0.8274	0.4377	0.4287	0.2783	0.9163
70	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	0.5513	0.7651	0.4149	0.4430	0.4304	0.8656
71	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	0.5455	0.7943	0.6312	0.1543	0.4547	0.8383
72	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.5442	0.6307	0.4585	0.5346	0.3997	0.8682
73	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	0.5395	0.7862	0.4673	0.2888	0.4898	0.7892
74	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	0.5319	0.6985	0.5059	0.2743	0.4547	0.8798
75	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.5309	0.5635	0.4969	0.4078	0.5673	0.8712
76	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	0.5253	0.5935	0.3748	0.4610	0.5986	0.8201
77	Panama`PAN`Central America	0.5203	0.7666	0.4454	0.2437	0.4452	0.9154
78	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	0.5165	0.5676	0.4448	0.3788	0.5094	0.9213
79	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	0.5142	0.6639	0.6015	0.2027	0.4296	0.8774
80	Peru`PER`South America	0.5068	0.7326	0.4417	0.4352	0.2311	0.8421
81	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	0.5058	0.7673	0.4637	0.2299	0.4640	0.8475
82	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	0.5036	0.7173	0.4603	0.1808	0.5658	0.8602
83	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	0.4921	0.7725	0.5473	0.2409	0.2751	0.8227
84	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	0.4876	0.8308	0.5339	0.1505	0.2910	0.8348
85	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	0.4866	0.5598	0.4305	0.4887	0.4311	0.8007
86	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	0.4832	0.7850	0.5525	0.1467	0.2802	0.8311
87	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	0.4820	0.7019	0.3953	0.3538	0.3987	0.8271
88	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	0.4583	0.5607	0.4571	0.2731	0.4503	0.8450
89	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	0.4468	0.7034	0.4616	0.1904	0.3814	0.8050
90	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	0.4459	0.5591	0.5114	0.2164	0.3313	0.7066
91	Ecuador`ECU`South America	0.4393	0.6763	0.4244	0.2931	0.2367	0.8605
92	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	0.4302	0.5356	0.3611	0.1823	0.6039	0.8693
93	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	0.4277	0.6410	0.4509	0.1784	0.2950	0.9270
94	Paraguay`PRY`South America	0.4258	0.7482	0.4509	0.1415	0.2576	0.8554
95	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.4241	0.6557	0.5199	0.1916	0.2063	0.8287
96	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	0.4235	0.5512	0.3551	0.2387	0.3813	0.9074
97	Guyana`GUY`South America	0.4200	0.7343	0.4117	0.0866	0.3243	0.7657
98	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	0.4161	0.7814	0.6078	0.0000	0.0963	0.8299
99	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	0.4134	0.6245	0.5250	0.1025	0.3688	0.8199
100	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	0.4114	0.6768	0.3956	0.1261	0.4727	0.8049
101	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.4079	0.6275	0.3234	0.1433	0.4997	0.8702
102	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	0.4037	0.7750	0.4155	0.1234	0.1791	0.8491
103	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	0.3978	0.5300	0.5089	0.3108	0.1971	0.7628
104	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	0.3967	0.6129	0.4282	0.2470	0.2418	0.7789
105	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	0.3959	0.5787	0.3045	0.2629	0.4045	0.7003
106	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	0.3932	0.4749	0.4134	0.4446	0.1750	0.7248
107	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	0.3898	0.5747	0.3747	0.1957	0.3552	0.8033
108	Bolivia`BOL`South America	0.3874	0.6202	0.4439	0.1570	0.1937	0.8875
109	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	0.3866	0.6497	0.3973	0.1642	0.3471	0.7727
110	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	0.3865	0.5484	0.2377	0.1916	0.4940	0.9667
111	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	0.3765	0.7387	0.4145	0.0000	0.2799	0.8485
112	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.3728	0.3949	0.2778	0.4297	0.3398	0.8242
113	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	0.3714	0.4500	0.2994	0.2611	0.4853	0.8086
114	Belize`BLZ`Central America	0.3667	0.7120	0.3806	0.0489	0.2345	0.8278
115	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	0.3653	0.5911	0.2457	0.1415	0.4631	0.8251
116	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	0.3622	0.5761	0.4017	0.4288	0.0051	0.7283
117	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	0.3529	0.6872	0.4170	0.1106	0.0000	0.8792
118	Venezuela`VEN`South America	0.3528	0.5344	0.4631	0.1872	0.1765	0.8028
119	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	0.3432	0.4476	0.4842	0.0617	0.3924	0.7717
120	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	0.3291	0.6285	0.3539	0.0000	0.3125	0.8030
121	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.3282	0.3009	0.1372	0.4894	0.4680	0.7173
122	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	0.3257	0.3919	0.3721	0.1376	0.3694	0.7962
123	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	0.3250	0.6066	0.2543	0.0926	0.4548	0.7695
124	Suriname`SUR`South America	0.3235	0.5997	0.4157	0.0000	0.2805	0.7399
125	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.3230	0.5760	0.2296	0.1714	0.2463	0.8892
126	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	0.3193	0.5809	0.3496	0.1557	0.2618	0.7278
127	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	0.3145	0.4499	0.3212	0.1106	0.5038	0.7687
128	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	0.3128	0.4313	0.2522	0.1675	0.4940	0.7999
129	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	0.3111	0.4376	0.3216	0.1106	0.4338	0.7306
130	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	0.3075	0.5423	0.2370	0.2089	0.3054	0.7772
131	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	0.3016	0.3103	0.3562	0.2413	0.3575	0.7326
132	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	0.2960	0.5783	0.3285	0.0489	0.1586	0.8586
133	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	0.2802	0.5086	0.1404	0.2072	0.2752	0.8065
134	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	0.2713	0.5067	0.3304	0.0000	0.2004	0.8562
135	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	0.2620	0.4052	0.2763	0.1664	0.2695	0.6848
136	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	0.2558	0.4566	0.3516	0.0000	0.3683	0.7237
137	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	0.2510	0.4672	0.1916	0.1675	0.2200	0.7761
138	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	0.2474	0.4776	0.2759	0.0926	0.1899	0.7888
139	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	0.2421	0.2658	0.4491	0.0717	0.2469	0.7740
140	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	0.2221	0.3971	0.0651	0.1784	0.2722	0.8079
141	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	0.2217	0.4424	0.2686	0.0000	0.2127	0.8094
=142	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	0.2188	0.3096	0.2823	0.1543	0.2118	0.7468
=142	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	0.2188	0.3604	0.2488	0.1910	0.1987	0.6891
=144	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	0.2113	0.1259	0.1604	0.4353	0.2688	0.7539
=144	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	0.2113	0.2851	0.2442	0.1355	0.1969	0.7371
146	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	0.2103	0.4323	0.1503	0.1068	0.2388	0.7772
147	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	0.2099	0.3418	0.0370	0.1142	0.4451	0.7951
148	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	0.2055	0.3684	0.1906	0.1776	0.1953	0.7586
149	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	0.2015	0.3412	0.1264	0.1142	0.3144	0.7498
150	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	0.1964	0.3114	0.2570	0.1830	0.1578	0.7249
151	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	0.1921	0.3615	0.1979	0.1234	0.2074	0.6931
152	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	0.1914	0.4218	0.2424	0.0309	0.2912	0.6391
153	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	0.1887	0.2051	0.2261	0.1583	0.3339	0.6720
154	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	0.1848	0.3854	0.0967	0.2305	0.1544	0.7464
155	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	0.1815	0.1118	0.2236	0.2329	0.3122	0.7363
156	Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.1751	0.1437	0.1436	0.1068	0.5157	0.7095
157	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	0.1692	0.2227	0.3218	0.0617	0.1594	0.7554
158	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	0.1672	0.2564	0.3109	0.0978	0.1249	0.7208
159	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	0.1666	0.3979	0.1752	0.0926	0.2243	0.6898
160	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	0.1629	0.2782	0.1895	0.1529	0.1484	0.7596
161	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	0.1519	0.2853	0.2017	0.0000	0.1847	0.7366
162	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	0.1441	0.3938	0.3007	0.0000	0.0157	0.6533
163	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	0.1144	0.2658	0.1782	0.2059	0.0271	0.6472
164	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	0.1112	0.0259	0.1451	0.2302	0.2956	0.6472
165	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	0.1096	0.2387	0.1973	0.1642	0.0264	0.6703
166	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	0.1083	0.0301	0.2120	0.1768	0.2448	0.5913
167	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	0.0985	0.0709	0.0776	0.1175	0.3476	0.7170
168	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	0.0813	0.0000	0.1498	0.0309	0.1868	0.8479
169	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	0.0191	0.0235	0.0000	0.0000	0.2367	0.6430
170	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	0.0000	0.3124	0.1505	0.0866	0.3553	0.0000

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

1United States1.0000
2Sweden0.9726
3United Kingdom0.9601
4Netherlands0.9532
5Singapore0.9423

Lowest

170Sierra Leone0.0000
169South Sudan0.0191
168Burundi0.0813
167Chad0.0985
166Afghanistan0.1083

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.4849. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

ICT deployment
HighestIceland1.0000
LowestBurundi0.0000
Middle country: 0.6820
Skills
HighestAustralia1.0000
LowestSouth Sudan0.0000
Middle country: 0.4500
Research and development
HighestChina1.0000
Lowest10 share it
Middle country: 0.2620
Industry activity
HighestIreland1.0000
LowestBhutan0.0000
Middle country: 0.4455
Access to finance
HighestHong Kong1.0000
LowestSierra Leone0.0000
Middle country: 0.8293

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

+0 / −0countries joined / left
168values changed, of 170 in both
56 · 112rose · fell
2unchanged

Rose most

Slovakia0.6916 → 0.7419+0.0503
China0.7895 → 0.8393+0.0498
North Macedonia0.5592 → 0.6023+0.0431
Bosnia and Herzegovina0.4669 → 0.5058+0.0389
Timor-Leste0.2039 → 0.2421+0.0382

Fell most

Bhutan0.4310 → 0.3529−0.0781
Malawi0.2580 → 0.1887−0.0693
Maldives0.4706 → 0.4134−0.0572
Vanuatu0.3242 → 0.2713−0.0529
Belize0.4110 → 0.3667−0.0443

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 2023.
168 distinct values among 170
Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 0.2188. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 170 countries has every column.

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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2023). Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/frontier-technology-readiness/2023

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