United Kingdom
MaintainingEuropeHigh income
Power #6 / 48Per-capita #5
Cognitive Power
56.9
of 100 · #6
CPI
56.9
CC
67.6
CDI
0.711
AIR
67.6
AIX
51.6
CRI
63.9
CM
59.5
CV
3.8%
Primary · absolute lens
Cognitive Power
56.9 · #6/48
Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in economic mass, researchers (total), research output (total).
Per-capita lens
Cognitive Coefficient
67.6 · #5/48
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
United Kingdom ranks #5 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (67.6/100), with a trajectory classified as Maintaining relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, digital literacy; the binding constraints are ai adoption, compute.
Risks
- Readiness outpaces utilization: infrastructure exists but augmentation is under-adopted.
Opportunities
- Largest headroom in AI Adoption (43.2/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
- Largest headroom in Compute (52.9/100) — 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.
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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 Access73.2
AI Adoption43.2
Compute52.9
Data88.3
Education69.6
Digital Literacy78.1
Innovation67.7
Knowledge Infrastructure68.2
Nearest peers
- Germany68.5
- Switzerland66.4
- China66.2
- Netherlands65.7
- Sweden65.2