Liberia scores 0.47 out of 4 on the composite, which places it in the Nascent tier at rank 50 of 54. The eight pillar scores are fellow-assigned values from the Regional Summary, and the indicators are not scored. The composite is below the West Africa mean of 1.27 and the Africa mean of 1.33. Regional Integration is the strongest pillar at 0.80. Innovation and Ecosystem and Implementation and Impact are the weakest at 0.20 each. All eight pillars sit in the Nascent tier. Desk research in October 2026, which did not inform the scores, found no national artificial intelligence strategy, no data protection law and no data protection authority.
P1Strategy & Vision0.67 / 4Nascent
Strategy and Vision scores 0.67 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 left all 10 indicators not determined. It found no national artificial intelligence strategy or policy. A November 2025 commentary, written after a United Nations Development Programme workshop on 'AI in Governance', calls for Liberia to develop one. The MPT's 'Digital Liberia' strategic action plan for 2025 to 2029, dated February 2026, and the September 2025 ICT policy review do not mention the subject in the coverage reviewed (S1.1). The research found no ministerial or presidential statement (S1.3), no budget (S1.4) and no information on alignment with the African Union Continental AI Strategy (S1.5). Consultations in September 2026 concerned a university MSc programme, not a strategy (S1.6).
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P2Governance & Regulation0.70 / 4Nascent
Governance and Regulation scores 0.70 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 found that Liberia has no data protection law. On 10 June 2025 the House of Representatives referred the President's personal information bill to its Post and Telecommunication Committee, and no enactment was found (G2.2). The bill would cover personal data of any resident in Liberia, the Economic Community of West African States region or beyond (G2.9). The research confirmed three absences. Liberia has no data protection authority, and so no authority staff or budget (G2.3, G2.4). The African Union status list dated 2 February 2026 records no Malabo Convention signature, ratification or deposit (G2.7). Artificial intelligence legislation and a regulatory body were not determined (G2.1, G2.5).
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P3Infrastructure & Data0.30 / 4Nascent
Infrastructure and Data scores 0.30 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 found 1 submarine cable landing point, at Monrovia, served by the ACE cable only (I3.3). Section 9(c) of the Central Bank of Liberia E-Payment Regulation provides for local hosting of payment systems, with an exception for offshore hosting (I3.7). Liberia has no national law on transfers, and Article 36 of the Economic Community of West African States Supplementary Act on Personal Data Protection is relied on as a secondary source of law (I3.8). The research confirmed that no hyperscaler region is located in the country (I3.5). The data centre count, international bandwidth and computing capacity for research were not determined (I3.1, I3.4, I3.6).
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P4Human Capital0.30 / 4Nascent
Human Capital scores 0.30 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 found evidence on 2 of the 10 indicators. The CSET Country Activity Tracker, via Our World in Data, counts 6 artificial intelligence scholarly publications for Liberia in 2024 and 3 in 2023 (H4.4). None of Liberia's main indigenous languages, and not Liberian Kreyol, appears in Meta NLLB-200 or the Google Translate list checked (H4.10). The other 8 indicators were not determined. A June 2026 WAIFEM regional course in Monrovia covered AI-assisted tools for public officials, but no government reskilling programme was confirmed (H4.7). No source was opened on university programmes or school computer science education (H4.3, H4.6), and no labour transition framework was found (H4.8).
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P5Innovation & Ecosystem0.20 / 4Nascent
Innovation and Ecosystem scores 0.20 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 found evidence on none of the 10 indicators. It confirmed one absence: the Liberia Standards Authority, established by a 2022 Act and operational in 2024, is an ISO correspondent member, but Liberia is absent from the member lists of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 and no artificial intelligence committee was found (N5.8). The other 9 indicators were not determined. No company count could be read (N5.1). Partech's 2025 report implies that Liberia received less than US$50M in tech equity in 2025, with no country figure (N5.2). No regulatory sandbox, safety evaluation facility or risk assessment framework was identified in the sources opened (N5.4, N5.6, N5.9).
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P6Ethics & Inclusion0.50 / 4Nascent
Ethics and Inclusion scores 0.50 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 confirmed five absences. GIRAI 2026 records no framework on impact assessments, on fairness and non-discrimination or on transparency and explainability, each with a score of 0 (E6.1, E6.2, E6.3). With no data protection law and no authority, Liberia has no right against automated decisions and no complaint route (E6.4). GIRAI 2026 also scores Liberia 0 on civil society inclusion (E6.8). The research found that Liberia is a member state of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, whose 193 Member States adopted the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI in 2021 (E6.7). A judicial remedy and an advisory body were not determined (E6.5, E6.6).
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P7Regional Integration0.80 / 4Nascent
Regional Integration scores 0.80 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 found Liberia on the official signatory list of the Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, done at Kigali on 4 April 2025, with no national implementation step citing the Declaration (R7.1, R7.2). It also found one documented election incident: a deepfake video, fact-checked on 24 October 2023 during the presidential run-off period (R7.7). The other indicators were not determined. The Economic Community of West African States Parliament called for a regional legal framework in July 2025, but no Liberia-specific participation was documented (R7.3). Liberia does not appear on the United Nations list of national statements from the Geneva dialogue of 6 to 7 July 2026 (R7.9).
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P8Implementation & Impact0.20 / 4Nascent
Implementation and Impact scores 0.20 (Nascent), a fellow-assigned value. Desk research in October 2026 left all 10 indicators not determined. It found no artificial intelligence governance budget, and an April 2026 report on a youth forum mentions no national policy (M8.1). No monitoring and evaluation report was found, and no national strategy was identified (M8.5). The research found no health regulation (M8.2), no data on approved health devices (M8.3), no government system registry (M8.4) and no agriculture provisions (M8.6). It found no guidance from the Central Bank of Liberia (M8.7) or the education ministry (M8.8), and no documented protective outcome (M8.9).
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