Tunisia Ranks 5th in Africa in the Global AI Worthiness Index 2025
Tunisia has ranked 5th in Africa in the Global AI Worthiness Index 2025, an international ranking that assesses countries' ability to develop, deploy, and maintain reliable, governable, and public-interest-aligned artificial intelligence systems. With a score of 57.00, the country confirms its position among the most structured African ecosystems in terms of AI, despite limited resources.
About the Global AI Worthiness Index 2025
The ranking is based on the Global AI Worthiness Index 2025, an international report dedicated to evaluating national AI trajectories. The index does not measure raw technological power, but rather a country's ability to build useful, responsible, and sustainable AI, taking into account economic and institutional constraints.
Evaluation Criteria
The evaluation is based on several key pillars:
- Quality of public policies related to AI
- Institutional capacity to execute these policies
- Governance, transparency, and ethical alignment
- Data management and infrastructure reliability
- Depth of skills, including advanced skills
- Ability to transform AI into measurable public value
Focus on Tunisia
With a score of 57.00, Tunisia is part of a tight group that includes Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. In this middle zone of the ranking, the gaps are small, and the ranks are played out on structural details. According to the same report, the next differentiating factor for Tunisia and Morocco will likely reside in the quality of execution: talent retention, transformation of research into public products and services, and consistency in the implementation of reforms within institutions.
Top 10 African Countries in 2025
Here is the African ranking according to the Global AI Worthiness Index 2025:
- South Africa - 65.25
- Egypt - 63.50
- Rwanda - 61.75
- Kenya - 58.75
- Tunisia - 57.00
- Morocco - 56.67
- Nigeria - 56.25
- Ethiopia - 55.25
- Ghana - 53.67
- Mauritius - 51.75
The gap between the first and tenth places is 13.5 points, which shows that continental leadership remains real but still fragile and unconsolidated.
What the African Hierarchy Reveals
The African hierarchy of the Global AI Worthiness Index 2025 reveals highly contrasting national trajectories in terms of artificial intelligence. South Africa dominates with a broad-based approach, slower but more resilient, while Egypt advances through scale and speed of deployment. Rwanda stands out with targeted and effective national coordination, while Kenya progresses driven by the dynamism of its private ecosystem. Tunisia and Morocco display a strategic convergence in North Africa, with similar capabilities whose differentiation will depend mainly on the quality of execution. Nigeria illustrates the paradox of a large market hindered by fragmented governance, while Ghana and Mauritius close the top 10 with strong potential, but capacity constraints that limit their short-term rise to power.
