CognitiveCoefficient
Overview / Rankings / Singapore

Singapore

AdvancingAsia-PacificHigh income Power #14 / 48Per-capita #3
Cognitive Power
40.2
of 100 · #14
CPI
40.2
CC
71.9
CDI
0.701
AIR
66.3
AIX
61.0
CRI
63.0
CM
67.6
CV
4.0%
Primary · absolute lens

Cognitive Power

40.2 · #14/48

Total national capacity — AI capital, compute, models & robotics. Strongest in semiconductor capability, compute capacity, ai capital.

Per-capita lens

Cognitive Coefficient

71.9 · #3/48

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

Singapore ranks #3 of 48 on the Cognitive Coefficient (71.9/100), with a trajectory classified as Advancing relative to the frontier. Its strongest pillars are data, digital literacy; the binding constraints are compute, knowledge infrastructure.

Risks

  • Few acute risks at present; principal exposure is complacency as the frontier keeps moving.

Opportunities

  • Largest headroom in Compute (50.6/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
  • Largest headroom in Knowledge Infrastructure (55.4/100) — targeted investment compounds fastest here.
  • High momentum: current investment and pipeline favour accelerating returns if sustained.

Recommended actions

  • Prioritise the weakest pillar (Compute) to lift the geometric-mean development index (CDI).
  • 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 Access70.4
AI Adoption62.0
Compute50.6
Data94.9
Education88.6
Digital Literacy90.9
Innovation62.2
Knowledge Infrastructure55.4

Nearest peers