CognitiveCoefficient
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Canada

MaintainingNorth AmericaHigh income Power #9 / 48Per-capita #15
Cognitive Power
48.7
of 100 · #9
CPI
48.7
CC
62.8
CDI
0.636
AIR
59.8
AIX
50.4
CRI
57.9
CM
54.8
CV
3.7%
Primary · absolute lens

Cognitive Power

48.7 · #9/48

Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in economic mass, research output (total), researchers (total).

Per-capita lens

Cognitive Coefficient

62.8 · #15/48

How deep infrastructure runs per person — rewards intensity, like GDP-per-capita or the HDI.

CC projection to 2040 — Baseline

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Monte-Carlo band (P10–P90) around the median path. Dashed = illustrative historical reconstruction.

Median (P50)P10–P90 bandReconstruction

Pillar profile

Insight engine

Canada ranks #15 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (62.8/100), 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 (43.5/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
  • Largest headroom in Compute (45.0/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.

Recommended actions

  • Prioritise the weakest pillar (AI Adoption) to lift the geometric-mean development index (CDI).
  • Broaden the base (education + data governance) to raise resilience and reduce concentration risk.
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.

Pillars

AI Access67.3
AI Adoption43.5
Compute45.0
Data84.2
Education69.8
Digital Literacy76.1
Innovation56.0
Knowledge Infrastructure60.6

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