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Government AI Readiness Index, 2022

Figures for 2022, as Oxford Insights published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government AI Readiness Index, 2022 covers 181 countries. United States is highest, at 85.721; Afghanistan is lowest, at 13.458. The middle country reads 40.271. Against 2021, 160 values changed (58 up, 102 down), 21 countries joined.

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Government AI Readiness Index · Data for 2022

HighestUnited States

85.721

LowestAfghanistan

13.458

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

01Oxford Insights’s rank

The table

Every country and every column of Government AI Readiness Index, 2022, as published. The rank is Oxford Insights’s own, as printed. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 181 countries · select a heading to sort

Government AI Readiness Index, 2022: every country, as published by Oxford Insights.
1United StatesUSANorthern America85.721
2SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia84.116
3United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe78.540
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe77.593
5CanadaCANNorthern America77.389
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia76.757
7FranceFRAWestern Europe75.784
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand75.292
9JapanJPNEastern Asia75.254
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe75.112
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe74.790
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe73.090
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe73.056
14TaiwanTWNEastern Asia72.785
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe72.642
16AustriaAUTWestern Europe71.491
17ChinaCHNEastern Asia70.836
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe70.758
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe70.142
20IsraelISRWestern Asia70.116
21BelgiumBELWestern Europe69.947
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia68.544
23SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe68.494
24ItalyITASouthern Europe68.406
25PortugalPRTSouthern Europe68.119

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. #1United States85.721
  2. #2Singapore84.116
  3. #3United Kingdom78.540
  4. #4Finland77.593
  5. #5Canada77.389

Lowest

  1. #181Afghanistan13.458
  2. #180Syria16.040
  3. #179Yemen17.322
  4. #178Haiti18.607
  5. #177South Sudan19.454

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 40.271. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −0countries joined / left
  • 160values changed, of 160 in both
  • 58 · 102rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bahamas+ Comoros+ Djibouti+ Eritrea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Kiribati+ Libya+ Solomon Islands+ South Sudan+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Syria+ Turkmenistan+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Vanuatu+ Samoa

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • The rank is Oxford Insights’s

    Printed exactly as the publisher ranked the countries. This site does not re-rank them.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 181 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

Oxford Insights (2022). Government AI Readiness Index, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/ai-readiness/2022

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07Questions

Government AI Readiness Index, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Government AI readiness in Government AI Readiness Index, 2022?

United States, at 85.721, of the 181 countries in the file.

What year does Government AI Readiness Index, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Government AI Readiness Index, 2022 cover?

181.

Where can I download Government AI Readiness Index, 2022?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Government AI Readiness Index, 2022 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Government AI Readiness Index, 2025.

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