Fifteen CARICOM states, benchmarked against the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom. Each jurisdiction carries one AI Readiness score, built from its governance standing and its UN E-Government Development Index, with the component measures shown alongside. Sort by any column, and select a jurisdiction for the detail and the source behind every number.
Each jurisdiction is scored from zero to two on six dimensions: a data protection law, a supervisory authority, a national AI policy, a sector cybersecurity framework, a breach notification duty, and a cross-border transfer regime. Two means in force and operating. One means enacted but not yet in force, or only partly so. Zero means none identified. The absence of a law is recorded as a finding, sourced to the trackers that list it.
Two limits to read honestly. For several small states the sector cybersecurity score rests on regional supervisory guidance from the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank rather than a national rule, and it is marked as such. Where a statute is on the books but has never been commenced, the authority it provides for is scored as not established. Scores move only when the underlying legal status changes, so the index is reviewed each month rather than continuously.
The Readiness score blends two measures into one number: sixty per cent the governance score above (normalised to 100) and forty per cent the UN E-Government Development Index (0 to 1, read as 0 to 100). Governance is weighted higher because it is the harder thing to fake and the spine of the tool. The Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness rank and, in each drawer, the Network Readiness Index are shown as context and are not folded into the score, because their coverage is too thin to blend honestly across the region. Where a jurisdiction has no single EGDI value, the European Union as a bloc and Montserrat as a territory, it keeps a governance score but carries no composite, and is marked accordingly. Sort by any column.
Two reference points from the UN process sit behind the review. The Co-Chairs' Summary of the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance (Geneva, 6 to 7 July 2026, published September 2026) named the shift from access to capacity, attention to Small Island Developing States and participation in standards-setting as priorities for the region. The Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, presented at the same Dialogue, is the shared evidence base the process now works from. Neither document changes a score here; scores move only on legal status. The second Dialogue is fixed for New York on 3 and 4 May 2027.