CitizensOS Index · Edition 1 · Q4 2026
The Compute Capitals of AI Index
The 20 countries where you can build AI, live well, and actually get the right to live there. Scored 0 to 100 from open datasets, statutes, the model makers’ own country lists and our database of mobility assets.
- 1United States80.5
- 2France75.3
- 3United Arab Emirates73.7
- Edition
- Edition 1 · Q4 2026
- Data frozen
- Next update
- Edition 2 · Q1 2027, January 2027
- Coverage
- 42 destinations scored, top 20 published
Download the scores (CSV)Full dataset with sources (JSON)Read all 20 country profilesHow we score
The top 20, pillar by pillar
Each pillar scores 0 to 10, and the index score runs 0 to 100. The range is the best and worst rank across 17 versions of the weights; observed data is the share of the score that rests on real data rather than an estimate. Select a column to sort, or a country to read its profile.
| Rangebest to worst | Dataobserved | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 80.5 | 8.96 | 9.17 | 6.06 | 9.09 | 7.00 | 1 to 2 | 100% |
| 2 | France | 75.3 | 7.49 | 5.83 | 5.89 | 8.45 | 10.00 | 1 to 11 | 100% |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 73.7 | 7.03 | 8.33 | 6.53 | 7.46 | 7.50 | 2 to 7 | 100% |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 73.3 | 7.71 | 8.33 | 5.61 | 9.48 | 5.50 | 3 to 7 | 100% |
| 5 | Japan | 72.8 | 7.14 | 10.00 | 4.54 | 8.24 | 6.50 | 2 to 11 | 100% |
| 6 | Singapore | 72.1 | 6.93 | 10.00 | 6.42 | 9.45 | 3.25 | 2 to 15 | 100% |
| 7 | Canada | 71.8 | 6.54 | 8.33 | 5.38 | 8.67 | 7.00 | 4 to 9 | 100% |
| 8 | Germany | 70.3 | 7.13 | 5.83 | 4.93 | 8.77 | 8.50 | 3 to 14 | 100% |
| 9 | Australia | 68.9 | 7.19 | 8.33 | 5.17 | 8.75 | 5.00 | 6 to 12 | 100% |
| 10 | Switzerland | 68.9 | 7.53 | 8.33 | 5.03 | 9.54 | 4.00 | 4 to 13 | 100% |
| 11 | Portugal | 67.0 | 6.29 | 5.83 | 4.01 | 7.85 | 9.50 | 6 to 21 | 100% |
| 12 | Spain | 65.7 | 7.05 | 5.83 | 5.35 | 7.63 | 7.00 | 8 to 19 | 100% |
| 13 | Malaysia | 65.4 | 7.02 | 8.33 | 3.90 | 6.94 | 6.50 | 9 to 20 | 100% |
| 14 | Ireland | 64.9 | 5.23 | 5.83 | 5.34 | 8.03 | 8.00 | 9 to 20 | 100% |
| 15 | Sweden | 64.6 | 7.32 | 5.83 | 4.72 | 9.45 | 5.00 | 10 to 21 | 100% |
| 16 | South Korea | 63.8 | 7.27 | 5.83 | 5.32 | 9.46 | 4.00 | 10 to 23 | 100% |
| 17 | Finland | 62.8 | 7.51 | 5.83 | 4.68 | 9.35 | 4.00 | 12 to 26 | 100% |
| 18 | Brazil | 62.2 | 5.65 | 8.33 | 3.34 | 6.27 | 7.50 | 13 to 24 | 100% |
| 19 | Malta | 62.1 | 4.50 | 5.83 | 3.60 | 7.12 | 10.00 | 14 to 28 | 90% |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia | 61.8 | 6.39 | 8.33 | 4.29 | 7.36 | 4.50 | 15 to 24 | 100% |
United States
France
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Japan
Singapore
Canada
Germany
Australia
Switzerland
Portugal
Spain
Malaysia
Ireland
Sweden
South Korea
Finland
Brazil
Malta
Saudi ArabiaScores are shown to one decimal and calculated with three. Where two countries tie, the one that’s easier to move to ranks higher. The CSV also lists the 22 countries we scored outside the top 20.
What the five pillars measure
Four pillars are about the place. The fifth is about you getting in, scored for someone of any nationality, so a country with a strong industry and no realistic way to live there can’t top the list.
Weights
- Compute and infrastructure
- 20%
- Rules, training-data law and model access
- 20%
- Adoption
- 20%
- Talent and research capital
- 20%
- Can you move there?
- 20%
- Compute and infrastructure
- Running AI compute tracked by Epoch AI (log scale), plus Oxford Insights’ infrastructure score and the Global Innovation Index infrastructure rank.
- Rules, training-data law and model access
- Three tests read from the statute (no general AI law, the law on training with copyrighted work, no licence before launch), plus whether the OpenAI API, Anthropic’s Claude and the Gemini API are offered there.
- Adoption
- Oxford Insights’ development and diffusion score, and Microsoft’s estimate of the share of working-age people using generative AI.
- Talent and research capital
- Global Innovation Index ranks for tertiary education, knowledge workers, research and development, knowledge creation and investment.
- Can you move there?
- Whether someone of any nationality can get the right to live there, how hard it is, and where it leads.
Known limits of Edition 1
We publish what the index can’t see, so you can weigh it. Corrections go in the next edition’s notes; we don’t quietly revise a published edition.
- A country where none of the three leading model services is offered ranks below every country where at least one is. That puts Hong Kong and China at the bottom, whatever their other scores.
- Epoch AI tracks the largest clusters, not every server room. A country with no tracked cluster scores 0 on that indicator.
- Epoch AI’s last read of Stargate UAE is from 16 November 2025. Its first 200 MW counts once Epoch logs it as running.
- Microsoft models AI use from anonymised usage data; it’s an estimate, not a survey, and some countries have none.
- Gaps in our mobility asset database can lower a country’s score for getting in.
This index is general information, not legal, tax or immigration advice. Governments decide every application and change their rules often.
See where you could live, and what it would take
Answer a few questions about your citizenship, income, work and family. The free Mobility Match shows the mobility assets you fit, each with its own live price shown before you buy.
