Ireland
MaintainingEuropeHigh income
Power #28 / 48Per-capita #18
Cognitive Power
29.9
of 100 · #28
CPI
29.9
CC
59.6
CDI
0.572
AIR
56.2
AIX
45.6
CRI
52.1
CM
51.0
CV
3.6%
Primary · absolute lens
Cognitive Power
29.9 · #28/48
Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in semiconductor capability, compute capacity, economic mass.
Per-capita lens
Cognitive Coefficient
59.6 · #18/48
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
Ireland ranks #18 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (59.6/100), with a trajectory classified as Maintaining relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, digital literacy; the binding constraints are ai adoption, knowledge infrastructure.
Risks
- Few acute risks at present; principal exposure is complacency as the frontier keeps moving.
Opportunities
- Largest headroom in AI Adoption (36.8/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
- Largest headroom in Knowledge Infrastructure (41.3/100) — 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.