Belgium
MaintainingEuropeHigh income
Power #23 / 48Per-capita #20
Cognitive Power
33.1
of 100 · #23
CPI
33.1
CC
58.6
CDI
0.600
AIR
58.1
AIX
39.0
CRI
53.1
CM
46.3
CV
3.4%
Primary · absolute lens
Cognitive Power
33.1 · #23/48
Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in semiconductor capability, economic mass, researchers (total).
Per-capita lens
Cognitive Coefficient
58.6 · #20/48
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
Belgium ranks #20 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (58.6/100), with a trajectory classified as Maintaining relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, digital literacy; the binding constraints are ai adoption, knowledge infrastructure.
Risks
- Readiness outpaces utilization: infrastructure exists but augmentation is under-adopted.
Opportunities
- Largest headroom in AI Adoption (34.8/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
- Largest headroom in Knowledge Infrastructure (42.4/100) — 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.