Russia Says Its Economy Is Reaching Digital Maturity
By 2030, officials expect data-driven decision-making, domestic digital platforms, and analytics to become the backbone of economic and public-sector management.
Russia is positioning itself for a new phase of digital development by 2030, with management decisions increasingly based on data, analytics, and homegrown digital platforms. According to Ministry of Digital Development, the country’s level of “digital maturity” is now tracked on a monthly basis across a wide range of sectors.
The monitoring framework covers five areas of the social sphere—healthcare, secondary and higher education, science, sports, and urban infrastructure—as well as eight branches of the economy, including industry, agriculture, financial services, transportation, and tourism. Public administration is assessed as a separate category.
How Digital Maturity Is Measured
For each sector, officials apply a tailored set of indicators. In the energy sector, for example, metrics include the level of robot adoption across organizations. In public administration, the focus is on how extensively mass public and municipal services have been moved online.
By the end of 2025, the strongest progress was recorded in financial services, healthcare, school education, physical culture, and several other areas. The ministry emphasizes that the use of domestic software and digital platforms plays a central role in these assessments, serving as a cross-cutting indicator of digital maturity.
Progress—With Limits
Experts note that significant barriers remain. Sergey Grishunin, managing director of the rating service at the National Rating Agency, pointed out that Russia still lacks full-fledged domestic equivalents to enterprise management and industrial database systems on the scale of SAP and Oracle—platforms that remain critical for large manufacturing companies.
Felix Gadzaev, director of the Digital School of Public Administration at the Presidential Academy, highlighted other constraints. These include data quality, a shortage of specialists in AI and analytics, and challenges related to software integration and cyber resilience. According to him, around 44 percent of organizations already report a lack of qualified professionals in these areas.
Despite these challenges, officials and analysts agree on one point: the transition to national IT platforms and the development of domestic digital solutions are seen as key drivers of technological sovereignty and sustainable economic growth in the coming years. For younger professionals, the message is equally clear—careers in IT and data-centric fields are increasingly viewed as a safe bet in a rapidly digitizing economy.
