France
MaintainingEuropeHigh income
Power #7 / 48Per-capita #12
Cognitive Power
54.8
of 100 · #7
CPI
54.8
CC
63.1
CDI
0.637
AIR
67.1
AIX
44.4
CRI
59.4
CM
51.8
CV
3.5%
Primary · absolute lens
Cognitive Power
54.8 · #7/48
Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in researchers (total), economic mass, supercomputing.
Per-capita lens
Cognitive Coefficient
63.1 · #12/48
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
France ranks #12 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (63.1/100), with a trajectory classified as Maintaining relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, ai access; the binding constraints are ai adoption, compute.
Risks
- Readiness outpaces utilization: infrastructure exists but augmentation is under-adopted.
Opportunities
- Largest headroom in AI Adoption (39.4/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
- Largest headroom in Compute (54.5/100) — 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.