CognitiveCoefficient
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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

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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

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.
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 Access72.9
AI Adoption39.4
Compute54.5
Data83.5
Education65.1
Digital Literacy72.0
Innovation60.2
Knowledge Infrastructure57.0

Nearest peers