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Mexico

Falling behindLatin AmericaUpper-middle income Power #29 / 48Per-capita #41
Cognitive Power
29.4
of 100 · #29
CPI
29.4
CC
30.1
CDI
0.264
AIR
25.6
AIX
18.5
CRI
27.1
CM
23.9
CV
2.9%
Primary · absolute lens

Cognitive Power

29.4 · #29/48

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

Per-capita lens

Cognitive Coefficient

30.1 · #41/48

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

Mexico ranks #41 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (30.1/100), with a trajectory classified as Falling behind relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are ai access, education; the binding constraints are ai adoption, knowledge infrastructure.

Risks

  • Low cognitive resilience: heavy reliance on externally-controlled frontier infrastructure.
  • Relative position is eroding — growth pace trails the frontier, widening the gap.

Opportunities

  • Largest headroom in AI Adoption (16.3/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
  • Largest headroom in Knowledge Infrastructure (19.0/100) — 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 Access45.4
AI Adoption16.3
Compute25.2
Data33.1
Education41.8
Digital Literacy39.3
Innovation21.1
Knowledge Infrastructure19.0

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