Nigeria Places 72nd in Oxford Insights' 2025 Government AI Index
The Oxford Insights methodology — scoring governments as buyers, enablers, and regulators — offers a comparative lens APS teams may encounter in international benchmarking.
Key points
- Oxford Insights ranked Nigeria 72nd of 195 governments in its 2025 Government AI Readiness Index.
- Nigeria's policy-capacity score (80.50) far outpaces its AI infrastructure score (33.65) — a pattern relevant to benchmarking exercises.
- Limited direct relevance to Australian federal agencies; useful context for comparative AI readiness methodology only.
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Source: Let's Data Science – AI Governance
Published: 29 July 2026
URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/nigeria-rises-to-72nd-in-ai-readiness-dffa0986
Oxford Insights' 2025 Government AI Readiness Index placed Nigeria 72nd among 195 governments, with its January 2026 revised report assessing performance across 69 indicators, 14 dimensions, and six pillars. Nigeria's strongest result was in policy capacity (80.50), while AI infrastructure (33.65) and public-sector adoption (47.46) lagged considerably. The article notes the index's 2025 methodology explicitly broadens coverage to include governments' roles as buyers, enablers, and regulators — not just direct service implementers. The item is primarily of relevance to practitioners working on Nigeria or Sub-Saharan Africa AI ecosystems, not Australian federal agencies.
Retrieved from SIMS, 16 September 2026.