Australia
MaintainingAsia-PacificHigh income
Power #18 / 48Per-capita #19
Cognitive Power
37.8
of 100 · #18
CPI
37.8
CC
59.4
CDI
0.599
AIR
51.6
AIX
42.7
CRI
49.2
CM
49.7
CV
3.5%
Primary · absolute lens
Cognitive Power
37.8 · #18/48
Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in economic mass, research output (total), researchers (total).
Per-capita lens
Cognitive Coefficient
59.4 · #19/48
How deep infrastructure runs per person — rewards intensity, like GDP-per-capita or the HDI.
CC projection to 2040 — Baseline
All 8 scenarios →Monte-Carlo band (P10–P90) around the median path. Dashed = illustrative historical reconstruction.
Median (P50)P10–P90 bandReconstruction
Pillar profile
Insight engine
Australia ranks #19 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (59.4/100), with a trajectory classified as Maintaining relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, digital literacy; the binding constraints are ai adoption, compute.
Risks
- Few acute risks at present; principal exposure is complacency as the frontier keeps moving.
Opportunities
- Largest headroom in AI Adoption (34.7/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
- Largest headroom in Compute (39.8/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
Recommended actions
- Prioritise the weakest pillar (AI Adoption) to lift the geometric-mean development index (CDI).
- Convert access into utilization: workforce AI-skilling and agentic-workflow adoption.
- Broaden the base (education + data governance) to raise resilience and reduce concentration risk.
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These are model outputs and scenarios, not forecasts of actual outcomes. This platform measures access to, utilization of, and leverage from cognitive infrastructure — not intelligence. No causality or certainty is claimed.