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Government AI readiness by country
How prepared is a government to use artificial intelligence in public services?
United States placed first of the 195 countries compared in 2025, at 88.36, and Guinea-Bissau last, at 12.12. In the middle country the figure was 40.19. Among the 156 countries measured in every edition since 2020, the middle one moved from 42.16 to 45.76.
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Government AI readiness · 2025
Key statistic · Digital & Technology
Highest of 195United States
88.36012025 · Oxford Insights’s rank
Who leads
The three countries at the highest end of 195 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Stefano Brivio · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
2Photo: Tobi 87 derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3Photo: © User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0, greyscale
Lowest in 2025
- 195
Guinea-Bissau12.12 - 194
South Sudan12.20 - 193
Eritrea12.70
Ranks out of 195. Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
Highest on each continent
- Africa
Egypt59.10 - AmericasUnited States88.36
- Asia
South Korea76.89 - Europe
France80.81 - Oceania
Australia75.73 - Every region
02Every measured country
Government AI readiness on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value — the better end.
- 12.12–22.96
- 23.11–33.91
- 34.26–45.92
- 47.42–60.96
- 61.48–88.36
- No reading in 2025
- Europe
62.71
the middle country, of 43 measured · 49 members
France80.81
Belarus32.47Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Asia
48.34
the middle country, of 49 measured · 52 members
South Korea76.89
Yemen14.48Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Americas
31.18
the middle country, of 35 measured · 48 members
United States88.36
Haiti14.94Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Africa
28.04
the middle country, of 54 measured · 55 members
Egypt59.10Guinea-Bissau12.12Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Oceania
23.63
the middle country, of 14 measured · 21 members
Australia75.73
Marshall Islands18.92Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Northern Europe
69.93
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
United Kingdom77.75
Latvia59.14Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Asia
68.53
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
South Korea76.89
North Korea21.15Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Western Europe
66.95
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
France80.81
Monaco38.62Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- South-eastern Asia
59.87
the middle country, of 11 measured · 11 members
Singapore76.42
Timor-Leste18.39Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Eastern Europe
58.15
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Poland69.14Belarus32.47Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Southern Europe
55.15
the middle country, of 14 measured · 17 members
Spain74.22
Bosnia and Herzegovina35.67Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- South America
54.53
the middle country, of 12 measured · 12 members
Brazil69.55
Suriname18.37Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Western Asia
53.99
the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members
Saudi Arabia71.57Yemen14.48Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- Southern Asia
45.38
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
India66.55
Afghanistan15.72Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Northern Africa
42.14
the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members
Egypt59.10
Sudan16.21Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Southern Africa
37.08
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
South Africa53.94
Eswatini27.70Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
- Central America
34.11
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Mexico48.33
Nicaragua22.23Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Central Asia
33.28
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Kazakhstan56.70
Turkmenistan22.50Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Western Africa
28.52
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Nigeria50.79Guinea-Bissau12.12Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- Eastern Africa
25.88
the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members
Mauritius52.76South Sudan12.20Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Caribbean
25.04
the middle country, of 13 measured · 24 members
Dominican Republic43.73Haiti14.94Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Micronesia
22.48
the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members
Kiribati23.90Marshall Islands18.92Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.
- Middle Africa
18.60
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Cameroon34.91
Central African Republic12.80Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia75.73
New Zealand62.70Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Fiji37.26
Solomon Islands22.28Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
United States88.36
Canada74.66Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
3 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.
Samoa23.46
Tuvalu20.87Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
195 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 40.19; a quarter are above 59.44, and a quarter below 25.26. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 195 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a rank shared with another country. The rank is Oxford Insights’ own. In the 2020 edition it does not quite follow their published score in one place — Sri Lanka ranks 90 on 36.24 while Ghana ranks 91 on 38.50 — and that is stored as published rather than silently re-ranked.
Showing 25 of 195 countries
Values for 2025. The change column compares 2025 with 2024 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
052020–2025 · 6 editions
Over time
Each point is one annual edition. The series starts at 2020 deliberately: a 2019 edition exists but was scored 0–10, and putting the two on one line would show every country’s score multiplying tenfold as an artefact of the method change.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 156 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195 | 40.19 | 25.26 – 59.44 | 45.76 |
| 2024 | 188 | 43.31 | 34.59 – 61.96 | 46.39 |
| 2023 | 193 | 41.37 | 31.88 – 60.18 | 45.30 |
| 2022 | 181 | 40.27 | 30.95 – 59.84 | 42.89 |
| 2021 | 160 | 44.05 | 33.03 – 60.47 | 44.90 |
| 2020 | 172 | 39.58 | 31.96 – 54.25 | 42.16 |
062024 → 2025
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Improved most
before → after
Azerbaijan39.92 → 51.91 · 111th → 69th+11.99
Ecuador41.46 → 53.04 · 104th → 66th+11.58
Kenya43.56 → 52.55 · 93rd → 68th+8.99- Nigeria43.33 → 50.79 · 94th → 70th+7.46
Tanzania35.08 → 41.45 · 139th → 93rd+6.37
Declined most
before → after
Saint Kitts and Nevis41.62 → 20.85 · 102nd → 170th−20.77- Marshall Islands37.62 → 18.92 · 123rd → 177th−18.70
Grenada37.96 → 19.36 · 121st → 176th−18.60- Suriname36.87 → 18.37 · 129th → 181st−18.50
Barbados41.11 → 23.33 · 106th → 155th−17.78
188 countries were measured in both 2024 and 2025. The field changed from 188 to 195 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Government AI readiness in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
88.36
AI readiness score (0–100)
Lowest reading on record
9.20
AI readiness score (0–100)
Biggest improvement between editions
+14.31
27.09 → 41.40
Biggest decline between editions
−20.77
41.62 → 20.85
Most improved since first measured
+22.09
47.46 → 69.55
At the top most often
6 of 6
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About Government AI readiness
Oxford Insights’ Government AI Readiness Index scores how prepared a government is to use artificial intelligence in the public services it delivers, out of 100, across government, technology sector and data infrastructure. It measures capability to adopt, not how much AI a country builds.
What the number is: AI readiness score (0–100).
What it does not measure
It scores a government's preparation, not how AI is actually used, and it does not judge whether that use is safe or fair.
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
A key statistic for Digital & Technology
“Whether a government is equipped to use modern technology in what it does — its data, its skills and its rules.”
- Edition used
- 2025 (data 2025)
- Countries
- 195
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
Moves with
Where Government AI readiness is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Global Innovation IndexWorld Intellectual Property Organization · 138 countries in commonρ 0.90
- Frontier Technology Readiness IndexUNCTAD · 169 countries in commonρ 0.89
- GovTech Maturity IndexKeyWorld Bank Group · 193 countries in commonρ 0.87
Moves against
Where Government AI readiness is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Learning PovertyWorld Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics · 105 countries in commonρ −0.78
- Gender Inequality IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 172 countries in commonρ −0.76
- Average Household SizeUN DESA Population Division · 132 countries in commonρ −0.74
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 382 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
10Keep reading
Explore further
The countries at either end
11Questions
Government AI readiness: questions and answers
Which country has the highest Government AI readiness?
United States, at 88.36, among the 195 countries compared in 2025.
Which country has the lowest Government AI readiness?
Guinea-Bissau, at 12.12, among the 195 countries compared in 2025.
How many countries does the Government AI Readiness Index cover?
195 in 2025. The number measured varies from 160 to 195 between editions.
What is the world average Government AI readiness?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 195 compared in 2025, the figure was 40.19.
Is this Oxford Insights’s own ranking?
Yes. The rank shown is the one Oxford Insights publishes.
How often is the Government AI Readiness Index published?
This site holds 6 editions, describing 2020 to 2025.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From Oxford Insights, under CC BY-SA 4.0. From Oxford Insights’ published index tables, with the three pillar scores stored alongside the overall score. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Government AI Readiness Index — Oxford Insights
From Oxford Insights’ published index tables, with the three pillar scores stored alongside the overall score.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2025
Cite the source as: Oxford Insights. Government AI Readiness Index. London: Oxford Insights.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, checked 2026-09-05.
How this page reads the numbers
- The rank is Oxford Insights’s own, as published.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- United States — Stefano Brivio, CC BY 2.0
- France — Tobi 87 derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- United Kingdom — © User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Government AI readiness by country: Government AI Readiness Index, data from Oxford Insights. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/ai-readiness