CognitiveCoefficient
Overview / Rankings / Spain

Spain

Falling behindEuropeHigh income Power #16 / 48Per-capita #25
Cognitive Power
38.4
of 100 · #16
CPI
38.4
CC
52.8
CDI
0.536
AIR
52.2
AIX
28.6
CRI
46.8
CM
40.9
CV
3.3%
Primary · absolute lens

Cognitive Power

38.4 · #16/48

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

Per-capita lens

Cognitive Coefficient

52.8 · #25/48

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

Spain ranks #25 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (52.8/100), with a trajectory classified as Falling behind relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, ai access; the binding constraints are ai adoption, compute.

Risks

  • Relative position is eroding — growth pace trails the frontier, widening the gap.
  • Readiness outpaces utilization: infrastructure exists but augmentation is under-adopted.

Opportunities

  • Largest headroom in AI Adoption (27.3/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
  • Largest headroom in Compute (38.7/100) — 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.

Pillars

AI Access66.5
AI Adoption27.3
Compute38.7
Data78.5
Education62.5
Digital Literacy63.9
Innovation43.5
Knowledge Infrastructure41.8

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