Tehran – According to the United Nations Technology and Innovation Report on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Iran is classified as countries with higher intermediate income, ranking 72 among 166 countries.
The country’s classification improved a position compared to 2022.
UNCTAD has classified 17 types of technologies as border technologies, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Objects, Megadors, 5G, 3D printing, robotics, drone technology, solar energy, green energy, green hydrogen, electric vehicles, nanotechnology and modification of genes.
The Technology and Innovation Report 2025: Intelligence Intelligence for artificial intelligence for surveys of complex artificial intelligence landscape, aimed at helping decision -makers to design science, technology and innovation policies that promote inclusive technological progress.
The 2025 report calls the AI that places people first and is shaped by global cooperation in which all countries have their say. The report identifies three key leverage – infrastructure, data and skills – offering a wide socio -economic perspective on AI while analyzing requirements and policies to promote sustainable industrialization and innovation.
The sub-indexes of preparing for border technologies in 2025 show that the best ranking of Iran is in the research and development sub-index (35th in the world).
In the finance sub-index, the country’s classification increased from 62 in 2022 to 56 in 2025. In other sub-indexes such as skills, and the establishment of information and communication technology, its classification fell from 74 and 78 in 2022 to 82 and 94 in 2025, respectively.
GII 2024: Iran goes into technological production, commercial sophistication
Depending on the 2024 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, the Iranic Islamic Republic classification in the production of knowledge and technology, as well as commercial sophistication are improved from 55 and 117 in 2023 to 49 and 110 in 2024, respectively.
In addition, the country’s classification in sophistication and market infrastructure increased by two positions from 19 and 97 in 2023 to 17 and 95 in 2024.
However, Iran’s classification in creative production, human research and capital, as well as institutions lowered compared to 2023.
The global innovation index classifies the main global economies according to their innovation capacities.
According to this year’s report, Iran ranks second in the countries of the central region and southern Asia, unchanged from the last two years.
India and Kazakhstan ranked first and third respectively.
Iran class 5 among the 38 economies of lower-lower-lower income groups, which has improved compared to the 2023 classification (6).
However, the country’s classification, among the 133 economies presented in the GII 2024, went from 62 in 2023 to 64 this year.
Switzerland obtained the first row of the GII 2024 report with a score of 67.5 for the 14th consecutive year, followed closely by Sweden and the United States in the second and third positions with scores of 64.5 and 62.4, respectively.
As indicated in the 2024 edition, in the past four years (2020-2024), the statistical confidence interval for Iran ranking in the GII 2024 is between ranks 56 and 80.
Iran has succeeded better in the results of innovation (48) than in innovation entries (85) in 2024.
Published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the report ranks Iran first in market capitalization and brands by Origin.
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