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The Index · GeographiesEconomies, ranked on the total cognitive capacity they command and on that capacity per person.
What this measures

Cognitive Power measures absolute national capacity: the AI capital a country mobilises, its compute, its frontier models, its robotics and automation, and its research output. Mass components are log-normalised, so no single giant can swamp the scale.

The Cognitive Coefficient reads the same capacity per person, in the manner of the Human Development Index.

Scores run 0 to 100. The top 10 economies · updated 21 Oct 2026.

Cognitive Power: components and weights
  • AI capital17%
  • Agentic deployment (scale)13%
  • Compute capacity10%
  • Frontier models10%
  • Robotics & automation10%
  • Supercomputing7%
  • Semiconductor capability7%
  • Researchers (total)7%
  • Research output (total)7%
  • Patents (total)7%
  • Economic mass3%
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01United StatesNorth America
93.6
86.7
02ChinaAsia-Pacific
91.9
69.9
03JapanAsia-Pacific
65.4
64.4
04GermanyEurope
63.8
70.0
05South KoreaAsia-Pacific
62.5
74.3
06United KingdomEurope
57.8
70.1
07FranceEurope
55.7
65.1
08IndiaAsia-Pacific
55.2
41.0
09TaiwanAsia-Pacific
50.3
65.6
10CanadaNorth America
49.7
65.3

Index scores are model outputs, not predictions. Where an input is missing it is estimated and marked as an estimate in the full dataset.

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