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MACHINE ECONOMY INDEX · MEI

The Machine Economy Index

A composite 0–100 health score for the machine economy — the geometric mean of four components, recomputed every day from normalized rail metrics and the Legal Rail Readiness Score.

33.7
/100
ROBUSTNESS BAND [30–38]
0 · NOT READYREADY · 100
33.7
GEOMETRIC · MEI
36.8
ARITHMETIC
3.0
BALANCE GAP

The gap is computed from the unrounded scores.

Updated 2026-11-06 17:33 UTC v1.3 14 METRICS 4 COMPONENTS

7-DAY CHANGE

Tap any component to open its live metrics in the Data dashboard.

PAYMENT 37 no change PHYSICAL 51 50 a week ago · 51 now · no directional claim (kept in 82.4% of draws) LEGAL · LRRS 16 ↑ +5 MACRO 43 no change

An arrow means the component's direction over 7 days holds in at least 90% of the methodology's sensitivity draws (Legal: under all three of its category weightings — rank-sum, equal and rank-order-centroid). Otherwise both values are shown and no direction is claimed. Legal links to the LRRS breakdown below.

HOW THE INDEX IS BUILT

Four components, weighted equally — combined as a geometric mean.

Each component scores on a 1–100 scale. The geometric mean sits at or below the simple average — and the weaker the worst component, the harder it pulls the whole index down.

37
51
16
43
avg 36.8
MEI 33.7
PAYMENTPHYSICALLEGALMACRO

The MEI is an equal-weighted geometric mean across four components (three rails plus realized demand). Each component is normalized from its constituent metrics on a 1–100 scale. See the Methodology for the full derivation.

MEI SCORE HISTORY

Oct 8 – Nov 6methodology:v1.3

The axis runs from 28 to 35, not 0 to 100.

Hover the line to read any day. Dashed markers show where the methodology version changed.

LEGAL RAIL READINESS SCORE · LRRS

How far the law has caught up — weighted by each jurisdiction's share of world GDP.

16GDP-WEIGHTED
COVERAGE

Coverage is concentrated in sandbox frameworks — led by 智能网联汽车道路测试与示范应用管理规范（试行）(MIIT, MPS, MOT; 工信部联通装〔2021〕97号): road testing admitted by provincial and city authorities under it. No jurisdiction in scope yet has an operational legal-identity, free-zone, or multilateral framework. The dashed 89.1% line marks the combined GDP of every jurisdiction in scope — the ceiling coverage can't rise above.

PER-JURISDICTION STATUS

Each jurisdiction in scope, colored by its strongest legal status. Switch the view to see a single category, or hover a country for its full breakdown.

Each jurisdiction's status is listed in the cards below.

OPERATIONAL · IN FORCE

ENACTED · NOT YET LIVE

No jurisdiction in scope yet has an operational legal-identity, free-zone, or multilateral framework.

See the full LRRS methodology →

ON BEING OPINIONATED

A reference index is a set of deliberate, published choices — not a claim to be above judgment.

The MEI is transparently opinionated — like every major reference index, its metric selection, normalization bounds, and aggregation rules are deliberate editorial choices, published in full and versioned when changed. Credibility comes from consistency and transparency, not from pretending to be above judgment.

Read the full case for equal weights and geometric aggregation →

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CITATION

Machine Economy Index (MEI), methodology 1.3: 33.7 [30–38], 6 Nov 2026. MachineEconomy.ai, https://machineeconomy.ai/mei