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Capability agenda

Colombia

Generated 2026-10-03

The frame includes 125 countries. Each dimension is scored from 0 to 100, with no overall ranking, and each score shows its confidence beside it. Read the known limits of the data before you quote a score.

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Where Colombia stands

DimensionScoreConfidenceTrend
Anticipation43.60.46+11.5 over 10 years using 2 indicators
Agency65.50.56no trend
Coordination71.10.39no trend
Trust43.20.49no trend
Learning44.30.54no trend
Experimentation32.70.51+0.6 over 10 years using 3 indicators
Adaptability56.10.62no trend
Building29.20.57-3.2 over 10 years using 3 indicators
Shared Purpose46.40.43-2.6 over 10 years using 2 indicators

Score

  • weakNear the floor of the frame. Check the confidence before reading anything into it.0 to 25
  • below middleIn the lower half of the frame.25 to 50
  • above middleIn the upper half of the frame.50 to 75
  • strongNear the top of the frame on this dimension.75 and above

Confidence

  • very thin0.00 to 0.25

    The score rests on one or two indicators. Do not quote it on its own.

  • thin0.25 to 0.45

    A minority of indicators, or evidence old enough to have moved. Read with care.

  • usable0.45 to 0.65

    Enough evidence to compare countries, with known holes.

  • good0.65 and above

    Most indicators observed, recent, from official or intergovernmental sources.

Capability over time

Select a dimension to see how Colombia’s comparable evidence has moved over time. The vertical scale is the current comparison frame, from 0 to 100.

Dimension

Period

Capability position in the current frame0 to 100
025507510020062011201620212026

Experimentation 2006 → 2026: 2.8 to 6.3 (+3.5) over 20 years using 3 indicators

Historical values use today’s frame from 0 to 100 and a matched basket of indicators. They show movement in the available evidence, not an overall development score. Dated agenda items appear on a separate timeline and do not change the score. A missing line means the evidence does not support a comparable trend for that dimension.

What to raise

These are the lowest scores with usable evidence. Thin evidence appears below.

Building

29.20.57

How capable is the country of turning plans and knowledge into functioning systems?

Uses 4 observed indicators. -3.2 over 10 years using 3 indicators.

Highest usable scores: South Korea 85.1, Ireland 80.3, China 77.4.

Related deliveries in other countries: Pix instant payment system (Brazil); GOV.BR federal identity and service platform (Brazil); X-Road national data exchange layer (Estonia); Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana bank accounts (India); Electricity supply rebuilt on renewable sources (Uruguay); Plan Ceibal, one connected laptop per child (Uruguay); Sistema Unico de Saude, universal public health system (Brazil); Programa Nacional de Imunizacoes, and its erosion (Brazil); Luz para Todos, rural electrification (Brazil); Bolsa Familia and the single registry behind it (Brazil); Fully electronic national elections (Brazil); Deepwater and pre-salt oil production (Brazil); Seguro Popular, and its abolition (Mexico); Sure Start children's centres, and their erosion (United Kingdom); Grid power, and load shedding (South Africa); Measles elimination, and its erosion (United States); BNDES, the national development bank (Brazil); Casa da Moeda do Brasil, the national mint (Brazil); Housing and Development Board, public housing at scale (Singapore); AFE passenger rail and network contraction (Uruguay); Flamanville 3 EPR, and the erosion of nuclear new-build delivery (France); Phoenix pay system, and its prolonged failure (Canada); Groningen gas system, and its closure after induced earthquakes (Netherlands); DigiD, a shared digital identity rail for public services (Netherlands); Delta Works, a 43-year national flood-defence programme (Netherlands); Betuweroute, a freight railway that missed its operating promise (Netherlands); MijnOverheid, a shared citizen mailbox and data portal (Netherlands); Fyra V250, a high-speed service withdrawn after a failed launch (Netherlands); OVpay, nationwide contactless transit payments (Netherlands); Omgevingswet and the Digital Environment System (Netherlands); Transantiago, an integrated transport reform with rising subsidy dependence (Chile); GIGA School, one learning device per student (Japan); Monju, a fast-breeder programme ended before commercial operation (Japan); Invierte.pe, a national multi-year investment-management system (Peru); Reconstrucción con Cambios, a delayed recovery portfolio (Peru); ICE and a mostly renewable national electricity system (Costa Rica); CCSS universal health-insurance reach (Costa Rica); Metro de Quito, a cross-administration urban rail delivery (Ecuador); Panama Canal expansion and self-financing operations (Panama); Metro de Panamá network operations (Panama); Mi Teleférico urban cable-car network (Bolivia); Industrial lithium carbonate plant below design capacity (Bolivia); Itaipú binational hydropower operations (Paraguay); Metrobús, an unfinished bus rapid transit project (Paraguay); ARSAT-3 satellite programme suspended before launch (Argentina); DPWH national infrastructure delivery and transparency portal (Philippines); Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a mothballed megaproject (Philippines); Trans-Sumatra toll-road programme, still short of its planned network (Indonesia); National expressway build-out in 2024 (Vietnam); Cat Linh–Ha Dong metro, a delayed and over-budget delivery (Vietnam); MRT Putrajaya Line (Malaysia); Kuala Lumpur–Singapore high-speed rail, terminated before construction (Malaysia); Hopewell elevated road-and-rail concession, and its termination (Thailand); AVE high-speed rail network (Spain); Castor underground gas storage, and its closure (Spain); Ostrołęka C coal block, and its abandonment (Poland); Nya Karolinska Solna public–private hospital project (Sweden); Barsebäck nuclear plant closure and decommissioning (Sweden); New Children's Hospital cost escalation (Ireland); Rural electrification and near-universal grid coverage (Nicaragua); Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela's five-million-home milestone (Venezuela); Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência delivery governance (Portugal); Lisbon–Madrid high-speed rail concession, formally abandoned (Portugal); Delhi Commonwealth Games, and the cost-estimate escalation (India); MeerKAT radio telescope, a delivered national research facility (South Africa); CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (Mexico); New International Airport of Mexico, and its cancellation (Mexico); Marmaray, the Bosphorus rail crossing (Turkey); FATİH education technology infrastructure (Turkey); YEKA RES-1 renewable tender, and its cancellation (Turkey); Gotthard Base Tunnel (Switzerland); Standard Gauge Railway, Mombasa to Naivasha (Kenya); Canadian long-gun registry, its information system overrun and its dismantling (Canada); Tel Aviv light rail Red Line (Israel); National high-speed rail network (China); Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant (United Arab Emirates); Aeropuerto Internacional de Palmerola (Honduras); El Chaparral (3 de Febrero) hydroelectric plant (El Salvador); Programa Ampliado de Inmunizaciones, and its erosion (Venezuela); PetroCaribe-financed public investment programme, and its audited failure (Haiti); Interstate Highway System (United States); Programa Nacional de la Vivienda, and its collapse (Cuba); Punta Catalina thermoelectric plant, and its cost overrun (Dominican Republic); Grand Paris Express (France); Modjo-Hawassa expressway, World Bank-financed Lot 3 (Ethiopia); Línea Rivera rail rehabilitation, and its decay (Uruguay); Gyeongbu high-speed railway (KTX), and its cost and schedule overrun (South Korea); Gasoducto Sur Peruano, a terminated pipeline concession (Peru); Talara refinery modernisation, delivered late and over cost (Peru); Program 35.000 MW power generation programme, and its schedule slip (Indonesia); El Mutún steel complex, inaugurated in 2025 and found never to have operated (Bolivia); Quang Trach to Pho Noi 500kV circuit-3 transmission line (Vietnam); Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant (Ecuador); Puente Héroes del Chaco, Asunción to Chaco'i bridge (Paraguay); Floating LNG import terminals of 2022 (Germany); Atucha II nuclear plant, and its 33-year build (Argentina); Vistula Spit shipping canal (Przekop Mierzei Wiślanej) (Poland); Israel Railways electrification and the Jerusalem express line, and their delays (Israel); Samuel De Champlain Bridge corridor (Canada); Hokuriku Shinkansen Kanazawa to Tsuruga extension, and its overrun (Japan); Botniabanan coastal railway (Sweden); High Speed Two, and the cancellation of Phase 2 (United Kingdom); Crossrail, the Elizabeth line (United Kingdom); Dedicated Freight Corridors, Eastern and Western (India); Olmeca refinery at Dos Bocas (Mexico); Inland Rail, and its consolidation at Parkes (Australia); Kehärata airport rail loop, and its cost overrun (Finland); Chixoy hydroelectric project, and its cost and time overrun (Guatemala); Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano dual carriageway, and the termination of its 2017 contract (Nigeria); Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project, and its shutdown (Pakistan); Tarbela Fourth Extension Hydropower Project (Pakistan); MOSE, the Venice lagoon flood barrier (Italy); Padma Multipurpose Bridge (Bangladesh); Noor-Ouarzazate solar complex (Morocco); Pap-Angren railway and Kamchik tunnel (Uzbekistan); Pro-Routes high-priority road reopening and maintenance (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Karuma Hydropower Project (Uganda); Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (Tanzania); A1 motorway, Bucharest to Nadlac (Romania); South-West Roads: Western Europe-Western China corridor (CAREC 1b and 6b) (Kazakhstan); Reseau Ferroviaire Rapide de Tunis, lines D and E, and its overruns (Tunisia); Southern Expressway (Southern Transport Development Project) (Sri Lanka); Melamchi Water Supply Project, and its erosion after the 2021 flood (Nepal); Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway rehabilitation, behind schedule (Zimbabwe); Solar powered milling plants contract, and its erosion (Zambia); Urban Water Supply Project (PEMU), part of the Kabala programme for Bamako (Mali); Ouagadougou Water Supply Project (Ziga) (Burkina Faso); Jiji and Mulembwe hydropower project (Burundi); Transport Infrastructure Investment Project (national roads, ports and the Northern Railway) (Madagascar); Energy Sector Support Project (substations and distribution lines) (Malawi); Morupule B coal power station, and its underperformance (Botswana); Metolong Dam and Water Supply Programme (Lesotho); B6 Belle Rive to Quartier Militaire road upgrade (Mauritius); Rahad Irrigation Project, and its cost and time overrun (Sudan); Accra bus rapid transit under the Ghana Urban Transport Project, and its cancellation (Ghana); Yabayo-Gagnoa road under the Fourth Highway Project, and its cost and time overrun (Côte d'Ivoire); Fourth Highway Project: paving of the Mamou-Kankan and Dubreka-Kolaboui roads (Guinea); Realignment of the Congo-Ocean Railway through the Mayombe, and its overruns (Republic of the Congo); Banjul Rehabilitation Project (roads, drainage and sewage), and its delay (Gambia); Bissau Port Project, delivered two and a half years late (Guinea-Bissau); Šoštanj thermal power plant unit 6 (TEŠ 6), and its cost overrun (Slovenia); Rail Baltica in Latvia, and its cost and schedule overrun (Latvia); Koralmbahn Graz to Klagenfurt, opened seven years after its contracted completion date (Austria); Fehmarn Belt fixed link, and its cost and schedule overrun (Denmark); Motorway construction by the Road and Motorway Directorate, and its unit cost (Czechia); Pelješac Bridge, the first stage of the road connection to South Dalmatia (Croatia); Decommissioning of the Bohunice V1 nuclear power plant, and its four-year slip (Slovakia); Decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, and its delays (Lithuania); Corridor X motorway sections (E-75 and E-80) (Serbia); Road Sector Development Project on the M-03 and M-12, and its cut scope (Ukraine); M6 Minsk to Grodno transit corridor upgrade (Belarus); Federation Road Sector Modernization Project, and its shrunken rehabilitation scope (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Local Roads Improvement Project, and its halved scope (Moldova); Regional and Local Roads Connectivity Project (Albania); Kicevo to Ohrid motorway, and its cost and time overrun (North Macedonia); Budapest metro line 4, first section, and its cost and time overrun (Hungary); Road Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project, and its cut after the 2009 budget squeeze (Bulgaria); Ain Sokhna supercritical power plant (Egypt); Hartha power station units 2 and 3 rehabilitation, and its halt (Iraq); Greater Beirut Water Supply Project (Awali to Beirut conveyor), and its unfinished delivery (Lebanon); Amman Development Corridor (Amman Ring Road phase 1), and its overrun (Jordan); East-West Highway Corridor Improvement Project (Rikoti Pass sections) (Georgia); North-South Road Corridor Investment Program, Tranche 1 (Armenia); Second National Water Supply and Sanitation Project (rayon centres), and its downsizing (Azerbaijan); National Road Rehabilitation (Osh-Batken-Isfana) Project (Kyrgyzstan); Tehran Sewerage Project (first phase: interceptors, trunk main and southern treatment plant) (Iran); Central Ring Road around Moscow (TsKAD), audited by the Accounts Chamber (Russia); Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Project (Papua New Guinea); Road No. 13 South upgrading under the Third Highway Improvement Project (Laos); Second Energy Sector Project, distribution rehabilitation and the 10 MWp western solar plant (Mongolia); City Rail Link, Auckland, and its cost and time overrun (New Zealand); Rogun hydropower plant (Tajikistan); Kvalitetsfonden hospital building programme (supersygehuse), and its overruns (Denmark); Modernizace dálnice D1 (D1 motorway modernisation, Mirošovice to Kývalka) (Czechia); Lae Port Development Project (Lae Tidal Basin, phase 1) (Papua New Guinea); Second-wave motorway concessions (Central E-65, Olympia Odos, Moreas), and their reset (Greece); Third Highway Project: M4 Baku-Shamakhi and M3 Yenikend-Shorsulu motorways (Azerbaijan); Belene nuclear power plant, and its cancellation (Bulgaria); Belarusian nuclear power plant (BelAES), delivered behind schedule (Belarus); Bishkek-Osh road rehabilitation, third phase (Kyrgyzstan).

Missing indicators: Large project delivery, Firm scale-up rate.

Rejected datasets: Logistics infrastructure quality.

How easily can new approaches be attempted, tested, abandoned, and improved?

Uses 6 observed indicators. +0.6 over 10 years using 3 indicators.

Highest usable scores: South Korea 72.6, Switzerland 68.6, United States 50.6.

Related deliveries in other countries: The FCA regulatory sandbox (United Kingdom); Yozma, the venture capital catalyst (Israel); Korean regulatory-sandbox system across eight sectors (South Korea); MAS FinTech Regulatory Sandbox variants (Singapore); British Patient Capital, a public venture-capital catalyst (United Kingdom); ICURe, from university research to spinouts (United Kingdom); Portugal Ventures, a public venture-capital bridge (Portugal); Rede Nacional de Test Beds for company experimentation (Portugal); Zonas Livres Tecnológicas, regulator-supervised experimentation zones (Portugal); Banco Central regulatory sandbox, first cycle (Brazil); Reserve Bank of India regulatory sandbox (India); Capital Markets Authority regulatory sandbox (Kenya); SEC Nigeria Regulatory Incubation Program (Nigeria); ADGM RegLab, the first fintech sandbox in the region (United Arab Emirates); OJK regulatory sandbox for financial-sector technological innovation (Indonesia); Bank Negara Malaysia Fintech Regulatory Sandbox (Malaysia); Bank of Thailand regulatory sandbox (Thailand); Sandbox financiero (Ley 7/2020), and the fall in applications (Spain); IFWG Regulatory Sandbox (South Africa); Project-based regulatory sandbox (new technology demonstration scheme) (Japan); CFPB Compliance Assistance Sandbox, rescinded in 2022 and withdrawn again in 2025 (United States); CSA Regulatory Sandbox, succeeded by the Financial Innovation Hub (Canada); ASIC enhanced regulatory sandbox (Australia); SINTEG-Verordnung, the energy-transition experimentation clause (Germany); Experimenten Elektriciteitswet 2015-2018, and its erosion (Netherlands); Bac à sable réglementaire in the energy sector (France); Italy's FinTech regulatory sandbox, and its contraction (Italy); Bank of Ghana Regulatory Sandbox (Ghana); AFSA FinTech Lab at the Astana International Financial Centre (Kazakhstan); Banque Centrale de Tunisie regulatory sandbox, first cohort (Tunisia); Sandbox Regulatório do Banco de Moçambique (Mozambique); Regulatory Sandbox Licence of the Economic Development Board (Mauritius); Bank of Uganda regulatory sandbox (Uganda); Regulatory Sandbox Framework for Capital Markets, first cohort (Zambia); Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe regulatory sandbox (Zimbabwe); FMA Regulatory Sandbox (Austria); Regulatorisk sandkasse for AI (Datatilsynet and Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) (Denmark); Datatilsynet's regulatory sandbox for privacy-friendly innovation (Norway); Bank of Lithuania regulatory sandbox, with one test in seven years (Lithuania); Narodna banka Slovenska regulatory sandbox (Slovakia); Sandbox for AI and blockchain products, Ministry of Digital Transformation and Ukrainian Startup Fund (Ukraine); Bank of Russia regulatory sandbox (regulativnaya pesochnitsa) (Russia); JoRegBox, the Central Bank of Jordan regulatory sandbox (Jordan); Special regulatory regimes (spetsialnye regulyativnye rezhimy) of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan); SECP Regulatory Sandbox, four cohorts and an open window (Pakistan); Bank of Jamaica FinTech Regulatory Sandbox (Jamaica); Financial Regulatory Commission sandbox regulatory environment (Mongolia); NAMFISA Regulatory Sandbox, microlending cohort (Namibia); Central Bank of Azerbaijan regulatory sandbox (Azerbaijan).

Missing indicators: Venture deals, Firms through regulatory sandboxes, University spinouts.

Rejected datasets: Business share of R&D.

Trust

43.20.49

How much cooperation is possible beyond immediate personal networks?

Anticipation

43.60.46

How capable is the country of identifying and preparing for emerging change?

Uses 2 observed indicators. +11.5 over 10 years using 2 indicators.

Highest usable scores: Denmark 98.1, Norway 97.2, Switzerland 93.4.

Related deliveries in other countries: Embrapa, a fifty-year bet on tropical agriculture (Brazil); The Delta Programme and its fund (Netherlands); Lei de Informática, a sectoral industrial policy (Brazil); CGEE, the strategic studies center (Brazil); Centre for Strategic Futures, foresight inside government (Singapore); Legally binding carbon budgets (United Kingdom); Fukushima decommissioning roadmap, a 30–40-year risk-reduction horizon (Japan); National basic-research funding allocation (China); PLANAPP and REPLAN, a centre-of-government foresight network (Portugal); Labour Market Intelligence Programme and forward skills planning (South Africa); Government Report on the Future and the parliamentary Committee for the Future (Finland); Foresight Centre at the Riigikogu (Arenguseire Keskus) (Estonia); Office of Technology Assessment, defunded and closed in 1995 (United States); Rządowe Centrum Studiów Strategicznych, liquidated in 2006 (Poland); Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) (Germany); National Assembly Futures Institute (South Korea); Federal Chancellery situation and environment analysis (Perspektivstab) (Switzerland); Senate foresight delegation (Délégation sénatoriale à la prospective) (France); Senate Commission on Future Challenges, Science, Technology and Innovation (Chile); Policy Horizons Canada, the federal foresight unit, and its 2024 disruption scan (Canada); Framtidskommissionen, the Prime Minister's time-limited future commission (Sweden); National Planning Commission foresight work for Malawi 2063 (Malawi); Bureau National de la Prospective et de la Veille Stratégique and the national prospective studies (Côte d'Ivoire); Teknologiraadet, the Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway); Teknologiraadet, the Danish Board of Technology, abolished in 2012 (Denmark); Bureau federal du Plan (Belgium); Special Secretariat of Foresight (now of Long-term Planning) (Greece); STRATA foresight for the Lietuva 2050 state progress strategy (Lithuania); Institut Royal des Etudes Stratégiques (IRES) (Morocco); Long-term Insights Briefings under the Public Service Act 2020 (New Zealand).

Missing indicators: Government foresight capacity, Long-horizon research commitments.

Learning

44.30.54

How effectively does the country acquire, distribute, and update knowledge?

Uses 3 observed indicators. no trend.

Highest usable scores: Singapore 84.2, Norway 83.4, New Zealand 83.

Related deliveries in other countries: SkillsFuture Credit (Singapore); The public library system (Finland); Kartu Prakerja, a national lifelong-learning delivery system (Indonesia); Compte personnel de formation (France); Programa Qualifica and Portugal's adult-learning network (Portugal); Novas Oportunidades, and the qualification-policy interruption (Portugal); SWAYAM national online-course platform (India); SETAs and workplace-based learning delivery (South Africa); MEB public lifelong-learning network (Turkey); Kenya's adult education centres, and their halving (Kenya); Rwanda's adult literacy centres, and their decline (Rwanda); Integrated Functional Adult Education, and its erosion (Ethiopia); Instituto Técnico de Capacitación y Productividad (INTECAP) (Guatemala); INFOTEP national technical and vocational training (Dominican Republic); Campaña Nacional de Alfabetización (Cuba); VET FEE-HELP, and its abolition (Australia); Adult education allowance (aikuiskoulutustuki), and its abolition (Finland); INEFOP, the tripartite national training institute (Uruguay); Franquicia Tributaria SENCE, and its erosion (Chile); Employer and in-work training under Employment Insurance, and its erosion (South Korea); TESDA technical-vocational training at national scale (Philippines); INADEH national vocational training (Panama); Yo, sí puedo national literacy campaign and post-literacy programme (Bolivia); Project 1956 vocational training for rural workers (Vietnam); Bildungsprämie training voucher, and its end (Germany); Aufstiegs-BAföG, upgrading training support (Germany); Formación programada por las empresas (FUNDAE training credit) (Spain); Community Education and Training colleges, and their erosion (South Africa); Vocational skills upgrading action, 2019-2021 (China); INA national vocational training, and its contraction (Costa Rica); Kunskapslyftet adult education initiative (Sweden); Springboard+ upskilling programme (Ireland); State-administered adult education under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and its erosion (United States); STAP-budget training grant, abolished in 2024 (Netherlands); INEA adult basic education (Mexico); Hello Training, public vocational training (Japan); Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), and its erosion (Brazil); Government-funded adult further education in England, and its erosion (United Kingdom); Educación Básica Alternativa (EBA), and its erosion (Peru); Upper secondary education for adults in non-stationary study (Estonia); Department of Skill Development skill-upgrading training (Thailand); Adult literacy education under the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (Nigeria); Skills Development under the Labour Market Development Agreements, and its 2024-25 funding cut (Canada); Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional (INFOP) (Honduras); Ministry of Labour Vocational Training Division adult courses (Israel); Educación Permanente para personas jóvenes y adultas (MEC) (Paraguay); National literacy campaigns, 2010-2015 (Haiti); County and city general secondary schools for adults (licea ogólnokształcące dla dorosłych) (Poland); Kolej Komuniti part-time and lifelong-learning (Pembelajaran Sepanjang Hayat) courses (Malaysia); Fondo nuove competenze (Italy); National adult literacy projects of the Bureau of Non-Formal Education, and their erosion (Bangladesh); Functional Adult Literacy programme, and its decline (Uganda); Integrated Community-Based Adult Education (MEMKWA), and its decline (Tanzania); National Functional Literacy Programme, and its erosion (Ghana); Centres d'alphabétisation, and their erosion (Côte d'Ivoire); Adult literacy centres financed through FONAENF, and their erosion (Burkina Faso); National Adult Literacy Programme (Malawi); Mauritius Institute of Training and Development part-time training (Mauritius); NAMCOL secondary education programme for out-of-school learners (Namibia); Alfabetização e Educação de Adultos (public adult literacy and adult primary education), and its decline (Mozambique); Sistema Nacional de Formação Profissional under INEFOP (Angola); Institut National de Préparation Professionnelle (INPP) (Democratic Republic of the Congo); AMS training measures (Schulungen) for jobseekers (Austria); Human Resource Development Authority (HRDA) subsidised training programmes (Cyprus); Arbejdsmarkedsuddannelser (AMU), adult vocational training courses, and their decline (Denmark); Vaučeri za obrazovanje, training vouchers of the Croatian Employment Service (Croatia); Mācības pieaugušajiem, the ESF training programme for employed adults 2017 to 2023 (Latvia); Grunnskoleopplæring for voksne, municipal primary and lower secondary education for adults (Norway); Zručnosti pre trh práce, retraining and training contributions of the labour offices (Slovakia); Upper secondary education for adults (srednješolsko izobraževanje odraslih) (Slovenia); Public vocational training centres of the National Agency for Employment and Skills (Albania); Employment Agency adult training, including the DI-GI digital skills vouchers (Bulgaria); ANOFM voucher-based vocational training for the unemployed (Moldova); ANOFM national vocational training plan, and its fall after 2023 (Romania); National Employment Service labour market training, and its 2025 non-delivery (Serbia); Programme national d'enseignement des adultes (national adult education programme) (Tunisia); Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l'Analphabetisme literacy and post-literacy programmes (Morocco); Federal project Sodeystvie zanyatosti (Employment Promotion) vocational training of adults (Russia); Short-term vocational training of the unemployed in monocentres and district vocational training centres (Uzbekistan); Self-Employment Program business training (Azerbaijan); HEART/NSTA Trust training enrolment (Jamaica); Enhanced Vocational Education and Training (EVENT II) short-term training (Nepal); Adult and community education at tertiary providers, and its halving (New Zealand); NCHD Adult Literacy Programme, and its collapse after 2013 (Pakistan); Youth Training and Employment Partnership Programme (YTEPP), and its shrinking enrolment (Trinidad and Tobago); Bildungskarenz with Weiterbildungsgeld, and its abolition (Austria).

Missing indicators: Adult learning participation.

What to measure first

The evidence is too thin to manage these dimensions confidently.

What to keep watching

These dimensions score at least 50 with usable evidence.

DimensionScoreConfidence
Agency65.50.56
Adaptability56.10.62

Missing data

18 requested indicators have no comparable dataset, and each one lowers confidence. A gap can become an indicator when a comparable series covers at least two countries.

DimensionMissing indicatorWhat it asks
AnticipationGovernment foresight capacityExistence, mandate and continuity of a national strategic foresight function.
AnticipationLong-horizon research commitmentsNew competitively awarded public research grants that run for five years or longer, as a share of all new competitive public research grants awarded in the year.
AgencyAdults doing digital tasksShare of adults who carried out a named digital task in the last three months, such as sending a message with an attached file, moving a file between devices or using a spreadsheet formula, counted one task at a time and never as a skill level.
CoordinationUniversity-industry collaborationIntensity of research collaboration between universities and firms.
CoordinationPublic-private collaborationFrequency and scale of joint public-private delivery of national objectives.
TrustTrust in public institutionsConfidence in national government, courts and civil service.
TrustCourt case clearance rateCivil and commercial cases resolved in a year as a share of cases filed in the same year.
LearningAdult learning participationShare of adults in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months.
ExperimentationVenture dealsFirst venture capital rounds closed by companies based in the country in the year, per million people, counted by deal and never by amount.
ExperimentationFirms through regulatory sandboxesFirms admitted to, and firms completing, a regulatory sandbox or controlled trial regime in the year, per million people, summed across every regulator in the country.
ExperimentationUniversity spinoutsCompanies formed to commercialise university research, per million people.
AdaptabilityDisaster preparedness and recoveryDemonstrated capacity to prepare for and recover from major shocks.
AdaptabilityInstitutional responsivenessSpeed at which rules and public programmes are changed in response to new conditions.
BuildingLarge project deliveryCost and schedule performance of major public infrastructure projects.
BuildingFirm scale-up rateShare of young firms reaching significant employment or turnover thresholds.
Shared PurposeSense of national belongingReported identification with and attachment to the national community, as distinct from pride in the nation.
Shared PurposeVolunteeringShare of adults who volunteered time to an organisation in the last month.
Shared PurposePolitical polarisationDegree to which political differences run along a single hostile divide.

What Colombia built that no indicator counts

These are documented institutional changes in Colombia that the framework records as evidence. They appear beside the score and do not change it or its confidence.

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