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/Country
Nepal
43/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 75% of countries
#39 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention43
- Adoption · single source15
- Regulation39
- Problems and attacks28
- Opportunities29
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents20
1 incident in the last 24 months · percentile among countries
AI exposure48
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 14.6% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards69
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.65 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.31 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -0.17 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
37
Exposure to threats
26
as a target 26 · as a cause 26
Closed, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (97 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 25.8 (as a target) + 50% × 25.9 (as a cause) = 25.9
Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation
Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns
What protects
Government access to personal data (V-Dem, expert scale)61
Rule of law (0-100 score)54
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)30
Shown alongside, not subtracted from the exposure
What we cannot see
We count reported cyber attacks, not all those that happened; there is no worldwide measure of threats made with AI; for surveillance and spyware the sources stop at 2022-2024.
Examples
Examples, not a count
Incidents where the state uses AI
/What we cannot see
Incidents never reported by the press · reports of serious incidents sent to the authorities and not published · systems registered in the non-public part of the EU database.
/Incidents by period
in the country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
+ 1 with only the year
/Reported incidents
1 in 24 months2025
Beijing uses AI to suppress Tibetan refugees in Nepal (opens in a new tab)severity: serious · partly estimated from the textBiometrics and surveillanceDecision-making and scoring algorithms
the source gives only the yearaccording to AIAAIC Repositoryorigin: China (China Electronics Technology Group/Hikvision, Huawei, Uniview, Zhejiang Dahua Technology)AI labs pages: Huawei
Also reported by· 2 articles from 2 outlets
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.65
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.31
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-0.17
2025 · World Bank
AI-specific laws and authorities: coming with new sources.
/In the news
how it worksAI news mentioning the country · 7 Nov – 13 Nov
- Symatics unveils new processor architecture designed for faster AI responses (opens in a new tab)manilatimes.net · Philippines · 10 Nov 2026 · and 17 other outlets
- Chimes AI Achieves 2.9x Faster AI Inference with FPT AI Factory (opens in a new tab)aninews.in · India · 10 Nov 2026 · and 16 other outlets
- TECH GLOW 2026 Celebrates Technology, Innovation, AI, Research and Diwali at IEM Kolkata (opens in a new tab)webindia123.com · India · 7 Nov 2026 · and 7 other outlets
- Neural Defend ranked #1 in the world for audio deepfake detection (opens in a new tab)nepalnational.com · Nepal · 13 Nov 2026 · and 6 other outlets
- EkaCare Selected as a Technology Partner for National Health Authority's Ambient AI-enabled Voice Scribe Solution for Doctors (opens in a new tab)bruneinews.net · Malaysia · 13 Nov 2026 · and 5 other outlets
- Altimetrik Accelerates Enterprise AI Transformation with Google Cloud's Gemini for Healthcare (opens in a new tab)thehindu.com · India · 11 Nov 2026 · and 5 other outlets
- COP31 to open in Turkey, with climate goals under pressure from war and AI (opens in a new tab)internazionale.it · Italy · 9 Nov 2026 · and 4 other outlets
- Supermicro Now Shipping Next-Generation Servers Powered by 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 Series CPUs for Cloud, HPC, and Agentic AI Workloads (opens in a new tab)bruneinews.net · Malaysia · 12 Nov 2026 · and 3 other outlets
- IA pode ajudar a responder desastres naturais, dizem cientistas ao G20 (opens in a new tab)ebc.com.br · Brazil · 11 Nov 2026 · and 2 other outlets
- COP31 to open in Turkiye, with climate goals under pressure from war and AI (opens in a new tab)bdnews24.com · Bangladesh · 9 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 90 in total, at most 16 in one day (22 Oct 2026).
90 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 43, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 43, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 43, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 43, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 43, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 47 why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.