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Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025

2025, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025 covers 176 countries. Estonia is highest, at 3.715; Liberia is lowest, at -2.660. The middle country reads 0.196. Against 2024, 63 values changed (37 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Cyber Security Capacity · Data for 2025

HighestEstonia

3.715

LowestLiberia

-2.660

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1EstoniaESTNorthern Europe3.715
2IsraelISRWestern Asia3.497
3ChinaCHNEastern Asia3.226
4North KoreaPRKEastern Asia2.771
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.689
6EgyptEGYNorthern Africa2.662
7PolandPOLEastern Europe2.563
8United StatesUSANorthern America2.555
9TaiwanTWNEastern Asia2.290
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.231
11EthiopiaETHEastern Africa2.223
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.163
13RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.107
14KuwaitKWTWestern Asia2.097
15SpainESPSouthern Europe2.006
16FranceFRAWestern Europe1.960
17GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.937
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe1.922
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.905
20United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia1.897
21QatarQATWestern Asia1.894
22Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.760
23MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1.710
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.633
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.629

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Estonia3.715
  2. 2Israel3.497
  3. 3China3.226
  4. 4North Korea2.771
  5. 5Singapore2.689

Lowest

  1. 176Liberia-2.660
  2. 175Haiti-2.507
  3. 174Libya-2.065
  4. 173Solomon Islands-1.869
  5. 172Malawi-1.788

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.196. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

What changed between 2024 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 176 in both
  • 37 · 26rose · fell
  • 113unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iceland1.538 → -0.579−2.117
  • Syria0.913 → -0.914−1.827
  • Iran0.965 → -0.660−1.625
  • Canada2.351 → 1.344−1.007
  • Malawi-0.913 → -1.788−0.875

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. 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

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2025.

  • 175 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share -0.619. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2025). Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/cyber-security-capacity/2025

0626 held

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07Questions

Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government cyber security capacity in Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025?

Estonia, at 3.715, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025 describe?

2025.

How many countries does Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025 cover?

176.

Where can I download Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025?

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

Is Government Cyber Security Capacity, 2025 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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