CognitiveCoefficient
Overview / Rankings / Japan

Japan

MaintainingAsia-PacificHigh income Power #3 / 48Per-capita #16
Cognitive Power
64.9
of 100 · #3
CPI
64.9
CC
62.1
CDI
0.676
AIR
66.9
AIX
28.2
CRI
55.0
CM
46.6
CV
3.3%
Primary · absolute lens

Cognitive Power

64.9 · #3/48

Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in patents (total), researchers (total), robotics & automation.

Per-capita lens

Cognitive Coefficient

62.1 · #16/48

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

Japan ranks #16 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (62.1/100), with a trajectory classified as Maintaining relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are ai access, data; the binding constraints are ai adoption, knowledge infrastructure.

Risks

  • Readiness outpaces utilization: infrastructure exists but augmentation is under-adopted.

Opportunities

  • Largest headroom in AI Adoption (31.8/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
  • Largest headroom in Knowledge Infrastructure (53.9/100) — 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 Access78.8
AI Adoption31.8
Compute65.6
Data73.8
Education62.4
Digital Literacy60.7
Innovation69.9
Knowledge Infrastructure53.9

Nearest peers