Global AI Readiness and SDG Scores for 167 Countries, 2025

195 countries are covered in the full AI readiness data, sourced from the 2025 Government AI Readiness Index. The matched panel for predictive modeling contains AI readiness and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) scores for 167 countries, based on the 2025 Sustainable Development Report. Pureheart Ogheneogaga Irikefe prepared this dataset in 2026 to support research on AI-SDG relationships.

Use Cases

• Predicting SDG performance based on AI readiness dimensions like Policy Capacity and AI Infrastructure.
• Applying Bayesian Belief Network analysis using k-means discretized AI readiness states (s1, s2, s3).
• Training LASSO or ANN-MLP models on the matched panel of 167 countries.
• Comparing country-level digital capacity across six AI readiness pillars and fourteen dimensions.

Strengths

• Includes data for 195 countries from the 2025 Government AI Readiness Index.
• Provides three organized data components: full, discretized, and matched datasets.
• Contains 14 specific AI readiness dimensions such as policy vision, compute capacity, and data quality.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The matched AI-SDG panel contains 167 countries, fewer than the full AI readiness data.

Provenance

Source

2025 Government AI Readiness Index and 2025 Sustainable Development Report.

Collection Method

Collected and organized from the cited public indices, with k-means discretization applied for one component.

Time Range

2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 06:20:28; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, covering 195 countries in the full AI data and 167 in the matched panel.