#41
Current official reading
UN E-Government Development Index rank in 2024.
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Priority lens
Can the Omani state actually deliver on its own promises?
This priority is the anti-friction file of the whole strategy. If institutions coordinate better, everything else on the site gets easier to deliver.
Top 20
2030 target
Published public milestone for 2030.
#26
Projected 2030
Editorial projection based on the recent official pace and the broader delivery context.
Live tracker
UN e-government rank
This chart uses rank because it is the clearest public way to compare Oman with the long-run top-20 and top-10 ambitions, while the detail cards also show the 2024 UN score.
ActualProjectedTarget path
Current
#41
UN E-Government Development Index rank in 2024.
2030 target
Top 20
Published public milestone for 2030.
2040 target
Top 10
Second milestone carried in the official public material.
Projected 2030
#26
Editorial projection from the recent official pace and broader delivery context.
Supporting signals
The numbers sitting underneath the headline
UN EGDI score
0.8576
The official UN technical appendix shows Oman in the very-high EGDI group in 2024.
Government procedures simplified
2,680 / 2,869
Simplification is the better operational signal because it speaks to process redesign, not just digitisation counts.
Government services digitised
1,700 / 2,523
Digitisation is moving, but the service backlog is still big enough that execution quality matters more than headlines.
Analysis
What the official data says
- Oman improved nine places in the UN E-Government Development Index between 2022 and 2024, moving from 50th to 41st.
- The official UN technical appendix puts Oman's 2024 EGDI value at 0.8576, firmly inside the very-high group.
- Operationally, the government's own reporting shows 2,680 procedures simplified and 1,700 services digitised by 2024, which means this priority is now visible through real administrative outputs as well as international benchmarks.
Analysis
Inference and caveats
- This is one of the clearer positive stories on the site. Oman is not just launching strategies; it is moving on digital architecture and process redesign.
- At the same time, ranking gains are not the same thing as lived ease of doing business. Residents and investors care less about gross digitisation counts than about completion time, once-only data sharing, and whether friction truly disappears.
- Governance is also the most leveraged priority in the system. If it improves meaningfully, almost every economic tracker on the homepage becomes easier to move.
Analysis
What could move next
- If Oman keeps the current direction, a top-20 position by the 2030 window is plausible, but it still requires faster movement than the current curve suggests.
- The next credibility jump would come from publishing more user-centred outcome data: approval time, completion rates, user satisfaction and agency-level delays.
- Watch for whether the unified national portal, open-data work, and service integration begin reducing repeat-document requests and manual handoffs across ministries.
Evidence table
Historical data points used in this chart
| Year | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | #50 | Oman Vision 2040 Annual Report 2021 |
| 2022 | #50 | Oman Vision 2040 Report 2022-2023 |
| 2024 | #41 | Oman Vision 2040 Report 2024-2025 |
Target frame
What Oman is trying to do
- Improve the quality and speed of state administration, project execution, and resource use.
- Strengthen public accountability and performance monitoring across ministries and agencies.
- Reduce regulatory drag on citizens, firms, and investors through better processes and digital delivery.
Current read
The shorter editorial read
- Oman has more real machinery in this file than it did a few years ago: the performance follow-up unit, open-data policy, Ejada implementation, service digitization, and service simplification are all concrete signals.
- The current read is positive but incomplete. Oman is showing work, but it still does not publish the kind of regular service-quality and agency-performance transparency that would make the story harder to dispute.
- For investors and operators, this priority may be the single biggest swing factor between good strategy and real execution.
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