Data for 2015

Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2015

2015, as UNCTAD’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2015 covers 171 countries on 6 measures. Sweden is highest, at 1.0000; Sierra Leone is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.4213. Against 2014, 170 values changed (92 up, 78 down), the same countries are covered.

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Frontier Technology Readiness Index · Data for 2015

HighestSweden

1.0000

LowestSierra Leone

0.0000

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

171countries
6measures per country
2015the year it describes
171distinct values4 decimals, as published
Sep 29, 2026read from the publisher
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01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2015, 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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1	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	1.0000	0.9659	0.8487	0.6665	0.8495	0.9391
2	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	0.9848	0.8337	0.8087	0.7635	0.8700	0.9421
3	SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia	0.9786	1.0000	0.8340	0.5886	0.8911	0.9359
4	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	0.9679	0.8456	0.8308	0.7116	0.8585	0.9273
5	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	0.9649	0.8225	0.7605	0.8509	0.8461	0.8940
6	United StatesUSANorthern America	0.9590	0.6432	0.7579	0.9704	0.8024	0.9737
7	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.9505	0.9549	0.7950	0.5272	1.0000	0.8578
8	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	0.9454	0.9123	0.6953	0.8254	0.7934	0.9430
9	BelgiumBELWestern Europe	0.9322	0.9049	0.8832	0.6226	0.7344	0.8704
10	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	0.9217	0.7341	0.7419	0.6870	0.9167	0.9647
11	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	0.9157	0.7850	0.8573	0.6181	0.8111	0.9117
12	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	0.9149	0.8691	0.8635	0.6400	0.7203	0.9665
13	FranceFRAWestern Europe	0.9125	0.8020	0.7010	0.7926	0.8166	0.9124
14	CanadaCANNorthern America	0.9026	0.8212	0.7125	0.7322	0.7513	0.9372
15	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.9017	0.7652	1.0000	0.6926	0.5192	0.9459
16	IsraelISRWestern Asia	0.8982	0.8008	0.7409	0.6153	0.9300	0.8779
17	Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	0.8828	0.9572	0.7011	0.4956	0.8555	0.9853
18	JapanJPNEastern Asia	0.8583	0.8059	0.4923	0.8086	0.8079	0.9619
19	LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe	0.8558	0.7828	0.8044	0.4111	0.8338	0.9091
20	New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	0.8380	0.8495	0.8567	0.5565	0.5235	0.9562
21	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	0.8372	0.7616	0.8458	0.5497	0.6319	0.9470
22	ChinaCHNEastern Asia	0.8327	0.5902	0.4391	1.0000	0.8415	0.9565
23	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	0.8169	0.7642	0.6913	0.6240	0.7390	0.9029
24	ItalyITASouthern Europe	0.8145	0.7046	0.6507	0.7323	0.7099	0.9044
25	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	0.8109	0.8401	0.6684	0.6842	0.5810	0.8629
26	PolandPOLEastern Europe	0.7842	0.7527	0.6692	0.6218	0.7058	0.8590
27	MaltaMLTSouthern Europe	0.7781	0.8509	0.6702	0.2660	0.8833	0.9022
28	SpainESPSouthern Europe	0.7701	0.5979	0.6784	0.7103	0.6518	0.9334
29	CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	0.7546	0.6452	0.7077	0.5633	0.7598	0.8516
30	PortugalPRTSouthern Europe	0.7496	0.7678	0.6569	0.5506	0.5885	0.9339
31	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	0.7376	0.9338	0.7364	0.3765	0.5780	0.8352
32	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	0.7330	0.8161	0.8981	0.2741	0.4992	0.9043
33	EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	0.7313	0.7881	0.7218	0.3573	0.7105	0.8824
34	RomaniaROUEastern Europe	0.7213	0.9005	0.4776	0.5514	0.6712	0.8045
35	LatviaLVANorthern Europe	0.7009	0.7207	0.6868	0.4022	0.6857	0.8492
36	BrazilBRASouth America	0.6958	0.5576	0.5190	0.6749	0.6640	0.8795
37	HungaryHUNEastern Europe	0.6914	0.6062	0.6331	0.4842	0.7876	0.8195
38	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	0.6911	0.5880	0.7577	0.4093	0.7208	0.8522
39	GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	0.6864	0.6810	0.6841	0.4869	0.5333	0.9283
40	BulgariaBGREastern Europe	0.6851	0.7807	0.5881	0.4010	0.6563	0.8610
41	UkraineUKREastern Europe	0.6847	0.6558	0.6225	0.5350	0.5706	0.8641
42	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	0.6807	0.6486	0.5799	0.4786	0.7447	0.8570
43	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	0.6798	0.6687	0.5948	0.2902	0.7355	1.0000
44	ChileCHLSouth America	0.6600	0.7519	0.5792	0.4833	0.4047	0.9261
45	ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	0.6558	0.6789	0.4871	0.4427	0.7060	0.9545
46	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	0.6534	0.5842	0.4453	0.5383	0.7764	0.9364
47	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	0.6470	0.4263	0.3070	0.7517	0.7945	0.8559
48	MexicoMEXCentral America	0.6456	0.6775	0.4418	0.5716	0.7203	0.8074
49	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	0.6353	0.7473	0.5361	0.3498	0.6466	0.8331
50	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	0.6345	0.5944	0.4938	0.5223	0.5629	0.9395
51	Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	0.6286	0.7559	0.5837	0.5430	0.3033	0.8607
52	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	0.6121	0.6869	0.6281	0.2956	0.5947	0.8742
53	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	0.6116	0.5792	0.4258	0.3793	0.8941	0.8314
54	ArgentinaARGSouth America	0.6104	0.6616	0.6125	0.4268	0.5521	0.7343
55	MoldovaMDAEastern Europe	0.5995	0.8767	0.4187	0.3644	0.5406	0.8015
56	TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	0.5934	0.5465	0.5652	0.5209	0.4902	0.8790
57	United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	0.5817	0.5117	0.4788	0.4057	0.6582	0.8976
58	ColombiaCOLSouth America	0.5752	0.5518	0.6242	0.4228	0.4451	0.8465
59	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.5708	0.6736	0.4661	0.1588	0.6844	0.8886
60	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	0.5673	0.6321	0.4553	0.3805	0.6183	0.8697
61	LebanonLBNWestern Asia	0.5626	0.6421	0.4552	0.2714	0.5792	0.9176
62	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	0.5601	0.6385	0.6189	0.1951	0.5505	0.8992
63	BelarusBLREastern Europe	0.5595	0.6495	0.6576	0.2313	0.5033	0.7980
64	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	0.5363	0.5837	0.5661	0.3094	0.5453	0.8262
65	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.5362	0.5608	0.4863	0.1887	0.7233	0.8615
66	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	0.5046	0.6597	0.2644	0.4017	0.5181	0.8944
67	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	0.5023	0.7046	0.5421	0.1484	0.4724	0.8491
68	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.4959	0.6011	0.3313	0.3374	0.5989	0.8296
69	VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	0.4945	0.5921	0.3094	0.2920	0.6997	0.9077
70	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	0.4923	0.6879	0.4457	0.1704	0.4940	0.8562
71	BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	0.4904	0.5844	0.6480	0.1733	0.4069	0.8349
72	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.4887	0.4847	0.5223	0.1211	0.6114	0.9171
73	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	0.4886	0.5509	0.4691	0.1810	0.4388	0.9157
74	PanamaPANCentral America	0.4752	0.5400	0.4281	0.1704	0.6284	0.9025
75	MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	0.4738	0.5785	0.6391	0.1122	0.3807	0.8531
76	UruguayURYSouth America	0.4696	0.4979	0.5218	0.2706	0.4907	0.7978
77	EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	0.4637	0.4992	0.4806	0.3478	0.4391	0.7926
78	OmanOMNWestern Asia	0.4601	0.6938	0.4591	0.1953	0.3157	0.8666
79	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe	0.4552	0.5962	0.4696	0.1866	0.4267	0.8662
80	IranIRNSouthern Asia	0.4518	0.4186	0.4639	0.4492	0.2923	0.8636
81	JordanJORWestern Asia	0.4485	0.5477	0.4075	0.2235	0.5179	0.8793
82	FijiFJIMelanesia	0.4417	0.6894	0.4109	0.1549	0.3544	0.8948
83	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	0.4368	0.6644	0.3867	0.2149	0.3443	0.8439
84	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	0.4245	0.6068	0.5088	0.1169	0.3626	0.8205
85	EcuadorECUSouth America	0.4239	0.6172	0.4267	0.2177	0.3552	0.8046
86	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	0.4213	0.6249	0.4800	0.1122	0.3863	0.8118
87	QatarQATWestern Asia	0.4157	0.6202	0.3527	0.2812	0.2296	0.8849
88	SurinameSURSouth America	0.4101	0.5683	0.3973	0.0873	0.5194	0.8158
89	LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	0.4003	0.3449	0.5106	0.0784	0.4339	0.7739
90	KenyaKENEastern Africa	0.3965	0.6189	0.2373	0.2240	0.4477	0.8236
91	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	0.3954	0.4820	0.3934	0.2042	0.4152	0.8302
92	MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia	0.3933	0.6534	0.5080	0.0535	0.2707	0.8020
93	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	0.3916	0.6077	0.4158	0.0000	0.4706	0.8850
94	Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	0.3914	0.7017	0.5327	0.0000	0.1465	0.8514
95	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.3751	0.5373	0.2277	0.1822	0.4661	0.7569
96	PeruPERSouth America	0.3747	0.4045	0.4071	0.2696	0.3010	0.8402
97	AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia	0.3724	0.5950	0.4305	0.1568	0.2016	0.8133
98	VenezuelaVENSouth America	0.3617	0.5568	0.4722	0.1855	0.1118	0.8045
99	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.3579	0.5477	0.3999	0.0676	0.4468	0.7914
100	GabonGABMiddle Africa	0.3565	0.4724	0.3208	0.0535	0.5035	0.7371
101	Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	0.3502	0.7038	0.3657	0.0873	0.0661	0.8637
102	MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	0.3495	0.4293	0.5017	0.1250	0.1931	0.8604
103	El SalvadorSLVCentral America	0.3494	0.5054	0.3099	0.0535	0.5079	0.8598
104	GuyanaGUYSouth America	0.3474	0.5156	0.3491	0.0676	0.3640	0.8231
105	ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.3422	0.5360	0.4032	0.0873	0.2945	0.8391
106	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.3333	0.5140	0.4150	0.1014	0.2595	0.8049
107	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.3323	0.3946	0.3180	0.1122	0.4876	0.8778
108	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	0.3310	0.4480	0.4617	0.2791	0.0012	0.7633
109	BahamasBHSCaribbean	0.3291	0.5967	0.5017	0.0000	0.0522	0.8657
110	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.3282	0.4449	0.3401	0.1409	0.3470	0.8218
111	BoliviaBOLSouth America	0.3221	0.3930	0.4057	0.1689	0.2340	0.8551
112	SamoaWSMPolynesia	0.3214	0.3003	0.4415	0.0000	0.4284	0.7586
113	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.3202	0.4293	0.3280	0.2874	0.2558	0.7274
114	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.3201	0.4625	0.2455	0.0784	0.4987	0.8199
115	UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	0.3147	0.4108	0.3699	0.0948	0.5229	0.7052
116	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	0.3140	0.2493	0.1882	0.4143	0.3328	0.8414
117	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	0.3090	0.3435	0.2953	0.1786	0.3081	0.8645
118	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	0.3089	0.4166	0.3592	0.0676	0.4507	0.7793
119	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.3012	0.3418	0.3908	0.0535	0.4539	0.7691
120	SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.2838	0.4244	0.1346	0.1588	0.4400	0.7960
121	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	0.2801	0.5586	0.3451	0.0784	0.0542	0.8388
122	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	0.2743	0.3657	0.2090	0.1211	0.4114	0.8894
123	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	0.2557	0.5246	0.1846	0.1169	0.2817	0.7716
124	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	0.2540	0.2964	0.2841	0.1747	0.3184	0.7350
125	São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa	0.2523	0.4478	0.2968	0.0000	0.3209	0.8144
126	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	0.2521	0.3482	0.2451	0.0784	0.4905	0.7712
127	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.2518	0.4545	0.2056	0.0676	0.2581	0.8606
128	BelizeBLZCentral America	0.2497	0.4069	0.3657	0.0000	0.1828	0.8444
129	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	0.2479	0.4307	0.2014	0.1624	0.2579	0.7588
130	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.2474	0.3329	0.0605	0.3127	0.4102	0.7330
131	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	0.2457	0.4257	0.1907	0.0948	0.3466	0.6943
132	VanuatuVUTMelanesia	0.2446	0.3758	0.2464	0.0000	0.3734	0.8871
133	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.2302	0.3963	0.1314	0.1211	0.3701	0.7504
134	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	0.2294	0.3934	0.1857	0.1122	0.2965	0.7782
135	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.2274	0.3554	0.2293	0.0948	0.3172	0.7659
136	NicaraguaNICCentral America	0.2241	0.3589	0.2890	0.0535	0.1913	0.8240
137	BeninBENWestern Africa	0.2218	0.2834	0.2491	0.1460	0.3230	0.7504
138	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	0.2207	0.4435	0.2557	0.0000	0.3040	0.7586
139	TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	0.2141	0.3013	0.3041	0.0338	0.3273	0.7741
140	NigerNERWestern Africa	0.2055	0.0270	0.0744	0.1381	0.8250	0.7136
141	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	0.2032	0.3266	0.2548	0.0000	0.3459	0.7746
142	IraqIRQWestern Asia	0.2017	0.2714	0.3684	0.2098	0.0000	0.7012
143	TogoTGOWestern Africa	0.1967	0.1692	0.2876	0.0676	0.3292	0.8022
144	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.1929	0.1416	0.2033	0.1674	0.4348	0.7322
145	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	0.1868	0.2675	0.0769	0.1833	0.4324	0.7378
146	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	0.1864	0.2280	0.3150	0.0000	0.2940	0.7452
147	MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	0.1860	0.2791	0.1820	0.1351	0.2541	0.7579
148	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.1854	0.4562	0.3189	0.0000	0.0378	0.7289
149	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	0.1828	0.3600	0.1567	0.1169	0.2327	0.7218
150	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	0.1721	0.3114	0.1040	0.2027	0.2211	0.7557
151	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.1710	0.3212	0.2451	0.0535	0.1546	0.7842
152	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	0.1694	0.1783	0.2538	0.1351	0.2505	0.7416
153	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.1676	0.2193	0.0415	0.1014	0.3956	0.7878
154	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	0.1615	0.2095	0.1624	0.1484	0.2087	0.8110
155	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	0.1494	0.2150	0.2662	0.0000	0.1816	0.8137
156	GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.1424	0.2037	0.1385	0.0784	0.3373	0.7180
157	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.1358	0.2911	0.1630	0.0000	0.2185	0.7721
158	HaitiHTICaribbean	0.1329	0.2622	0.2122	0.0535	0.1897	0.7093
159	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.1317	0.1580	0.0433	0.1569	0.2812	0.7880
160	Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	0.1282	0.3169	0.2138	0.0000	0.1609	0.7234
161	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.1199	0.2911	0.1241	0.0676	0.2601	0.6908
162	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	0.1135	0.3726	0.2092	0.0000	0.0058	0.7250
163	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.1071	0.1484	0.1644	0.0535	0.2121	0.6790
164	YemenYEMWestern Asia	0.1062	0.3334	0.1505	0.0535	0.1306	0.6490
165	SudanSDNNorthern Africa	0.0927	0.2481	0.1479	0.1351	0.0518	0.6830
166	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	0.0874	0.0000	0.1855	0.0338	0.3215	0.7485
167	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	0.0870	0.1892	0.1900	0.0000	0.2084	0.6165
168	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	0.0618	0.1387	0.1673	0.0676	0.1372	0.6591
169	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	0.0541	0.0736	0.0634	0.0000	0.3507	0.6856
170	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	0.0041	0.1053	0.0000	0.0000	0.2266	0.5656
171	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	0.0000	0.2588	0.1117	0.0000	0.5586	0.0000

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

1Sweden1.0000
2United Kingdom0.9848
3Singapore0.9786
4Netherlands0.9679
5Germany0.9649

Lowest

171Sierra Leone0.0000
170South Sudan0.0041
169Chad0.0541
168DR Congo0.0618
167Afghanistan0.0870

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.4213. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

ICT deployment
HighestSingapore1.0000
LowestBurundi0.0000
Middle country: 0.5568
Skills
HighestAustralia1.0000
LowestSouth Sudan0.0000
Middle country: 0.4267
Research and development
HighestChina1.0000
Lowest19 share it
Middle country: 0.1855
Industry activity
HighestIreland1.0000
LowestIraq0.0000
Middle country: 0.4468
Access to finance
HighestCyprus1.0000
LowestSierra Leone0.0000
Middle country: 0.8391

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
170values changed, of 171 in both
92 · 78rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Kenya0.2931 → 0.3965+0.1034
Indonesia0.4206 → 0.4959+0.0753
Ghana0.3017 → 0.3751+0.0734
Rwanda0.1843 → 0.2557+0.0714
Trinidad and Tobago0.3519 → 0.4213+0.0694

Fell most

Hungary0.7613 → 0.6914−0.0699
Egypt0.5295 → 0.4637−0.0658
Timor-Leste0.2396 → 0.1854−0.0542
Belize0.2936 → 0.2497−0.0439
Bahamas0.3683 → 0.3291−0.0392

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 2025 release
Every year in this series comes from UNCTAD’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2015.
The position is ours
UNCTAD 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 171 countries has every column.

05The files

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UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2015). Frontier Technology Readiness Index, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/frontier-technology-readiness/2015

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