Network Readiness Index
How ready a country is to make use of networked technology, across four pillars: the technology itself, the people using it, the governance around it, and the economic and social impact it produces.
Network Readiness Index: 2019 ranked 79 of 121; 2020 ranked 88 of 134; 2021 ranked 67 of 130; 2022 ranked 61 of 131; 2023 ranked 60 of 134; 2024 ranked 49 of 133; 2025 ranked 45 of 127.
What the publisher changed
- 2019: The index was redesigned in 2019 after moving from the World Economic Forum to the Portulans Institute.
Coverage
India only; 121-134 economies, seven editions from 2019, the first year of the redesigned index.
Limitations
The index only exists in this form since the 2019 redesign, so 2019 is the earliest edition there is; the pre-2019 Networked Readiness Index was a different measure published by the World Economic Forum and is deliberately excluded. The economy count moves between editions, from 134 down to 127, so part of any rank change reflects a different field. The 2022 and 2023 country reports publish a rank but no extractable score.
Every stored edition
| Year | Rank | Field | NRI score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | 127 | 54.43 |
| 2024 | 49 | 133 | 53.63 |
| 2023 | 60 | 134 | — |
| 2022 | 61 | 131 | — |
| 2021 | 67 | 130 | 49.74 |
| 2020 | 88 | 134 | — |
| 2019 | 79 | 121 | — |
- Edition published
- 4 February 2026
- Coverage
- India only; 121-134 economies, seven editions from 2019, the first year of the redesigned index.