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Which governments are ready for the AI era?
Which governments are ready for the AI era?
Oxford Insights’ Government AI Readiness Index looks at governments’ readiness to use AI—not which country builds the strongest AI models.
The chart compares the latest top 25 countries’ rankings in the 2020 and corrected 2025 editions:
- The US ranks first in both editions.
- France ranks second in 2025, compared with eleventh in 2020.
- China ranks eighth, compared with nineteenth; Brazil ranks twenty-second, compared with sixty-third.
The takeaway: government readiness adds another dimension to the global AI race, alongside models, chips and private investment.
Rank movements are not a like-for-like measure of improvement: methodology and country coverage differ between editions.
Source: Oxford Insights, Government AI Readiness Index 2020 and corrected 2025 edition.
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