The 2025 Technology and Innovation Report was issued by United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
India was ranked 36th in 2024 on the ‘Readiness for Frontier Technologies’ index, improving its position from 48th in 2022.
India ranks at 36th out of 170 nations on a global index measuring a country’s readiness for frontier technologies.
India ranks at 99th for ICT, 113th for skills, third for R&D, tenth for industrial capacity and 70th for finance.
The U.S. leads the world in terms of the private investment in AI, at $67 billion in 2023, or 70% of global AI private investment.
The only developing countries with significant investments were China in second position, with $7.8 billion and India in tenth position, with $1.4 billion.
India and China are the only developing countries in the world with significant private investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2023.
The United States has the most GitHub developers, followed by India and China.
There are large talent pools in India, with around 13 million developers, and in Brazil, with four million.
Germany is highly specialised in wind energy, India in nanotechnology, Japan in electric vehicles and the Republic of Korea in 5G technology.