The following are international rankings of Israel:

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Agriculture

The Economist: Global Food Security Index, ranked 19th out of 113 in 2017^[1]

Economy

Main article: Economy of Israel

International Monetary Fund: GDP (nominal) 2022, ranked 28th out of 216 countries^[2]
International Monetary Fund: GDP (nominal) per capita 2022, ranked 14th out of 192 countries^[3]
Bloomberg L.P.: Innovation Index 2019, ranked 5th out of 95 countries^[4]
Observatory of Economic Complexity, MIT: Economic Complexity Index – Trade, 2021, ranked 20th out of 133 countries^[5]
The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation: Index of Economic Freedom 2022, ranked 43rd out of 177 countries^[6]
World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Index2019 ranked 20th out of 141 countries^[7]
Grant Thornton: Global Dynamism Index 2020, ranked 2nd out of 60^[8]^[9]
World Economic Forum: Human Capital Report 2017,^[10] ranked 18th out of 130
World Economic Forum: Inclusive Development Index 2018,^[11] ranked 31st out of 103 countries
World Bank: Ease of doing business index 2020,^[12] (2019 rankings), ranked 35th out of 190 countries
World Bank: Logistics Performance Index 2016,^[13] ranked 28th out of 160

Education

Main article: Education in Israel

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment, ranked 39th of 72 in mathematics, 39th of 72 in science, 37th of 72 in reading. The test does not affect the students' grades.^[14]

Environment

Main article: Environment of Israel

SOPAC: 2012, ranked 210th out of 234 countries^[15]
Yale University/Columbia University: Environmental Performance Index, 2018,^[16] ranked 19th out of 180
Third most dependent in the world on the Population Matters overshoot index after Singapore and Kuwait.

Free Speech

The Economist: Democracy Index, Freedom of Speech and the Media, ranked a shared 11th place out of 167 countries in the world (9 out of 10 points) in 2017.^[17]

Geography

Main article: Geography of Israel

Total area ranked 153rd out of 249 countries (Includes Golan Heights and East Jerusalem, excludes West Bank).

Globalization

Main article: Globalization

KOF Index of Globalization 2018 (2015 data), ranked 37th out of 185^[18]
Maastricht Globalisation Index 2012, ranked 14th out of 117^[19]
Good Country Index v1.2, ranked 53rd out of 163^[20]
Henley & Partners Passport Index, ranked 23rd out of 104 (or 49 out of 199 countries)^[21]

Human development and society

Human Development Index: 0.919, ranked 25th out of 189.
Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index: 0.815, ranked 29th out of 152.
United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index 2016, ranked 19th out of 188^[22]
New World Wealth: Global Wealth Migration Review, Women's Safety 2017, ranked 8th^[23]
World Happiness Report 2022, ranked 9th out of 156^[24]
The Economist: Where-to-be-born Index 2013,^[25] ranked 20th out of 80
State of World Liberty Project: State of World Liberty Index 2016,^[26] ranked 54th out of 185
Global AgeWatch Index 2015, ranked 18th out of 96^[27]
World Economic Forum: Global Gender Gap Report 2017, ranked 44th out of 144^[28]
Legatum Prosperity Index 2017, ranked 38th out of 149^[29]
Y&R BAV Group, Best Countries Report 2018, ranked 30th out of 80^[30]
Social Progress Index 2017, ranked 29th out of 128^[31]
OECD Better Life Index 2017, ranked 24th out of 38^[32]

Media

Main article: Media of Israel

Reporters Without Borders: 2016 Press Freedom Index, ranked 101st out of 180 national entities (includes Israeli-controlled territories)^[33]

Military

Main article: Israel Defense Forces

Institute for Economics and Peace Global Peace Index, 2017, ranked 144th out of 163^[34]
Fund for Peace: Fragile States Index, 2017 (includes West Bank),^[35] 69th out of 178^[36]

Politics

Main article: Politics of Israel

Transparency International: 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index, ranked 28th out of 176 countries^[37]
The Economist: Democracy Index 2020: ranked as a 'Flawed Democracy', 27th out of 167.
Democracy Ranking 2016 (2014–15 data), ranked 26th out of 112^[38]

Technology

Main article: Science and technology in Israel

Economist Intelligence Unit: E-readiness 2008, ranked 27th out of 70 countries
United Nations: E-Government Survey 2016, ranked 20th out of 193^[39]
WIPO: Global Innovation Index 2019, ranked 10th out of 129 countries^[40]
Bloomberg Innovation Index 2015, ranked 5th out of 50^[41]
Futron: Space Competitiveness Index 2012, ranked 9th in the world
Akamai Technologies: State of the Internet Report, Q1 2017, ranked 28–30 out of 74 countries by average connection speed, 6 out of 74 by average peak speed^[42]

Tourism

Main article: Tourism in Israel

World Economic Forum: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2017, ranked 61 out of 136^[43]
UNWTO: World Tourism rankings 2015, ranked 53 out of 141^[44]
InterNations Expat Insider Survey 2019, ranked 14 out of 64^[45]

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^ "These Are the World's Most Innovative Countries". Bloomberg.com. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
^ "Economic Complexity Rankings (ECI) Trade". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
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^ "Global Dynamism Index (GDI) - knoema.com". Knoema.
^ "The Human Capital Report". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
^ 2018 Rankings (PDF). Inclusive Development Index (Report). World Economic Forum. 2018. p. 3. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
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^ "2018 EPI Results". Yale University. Archived from the original on March 15, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
^ "Democracy Index 2017 - Economist Intelligence Unit" (PDF). EIU.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
^ "2018 KOF Globalization Index" (XLSX). Retrieved July 2, 2018.
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^ "Overall Rankings – The Good Country". Archived from the original on April 15, 2017. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
^ "Passport Index" (PDF). Henley & Partners. January 16, 2018. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
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^ "Global Gender Gap Report 2017" (PDF). World Economic Forum. 2017. p. 194. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
^ "The Legatum Prosperity Index" (PDF) (11th ed.). Legatum. 2017. p. 10. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
^ "Overall Best Countries Ranking". U.S. News. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
^ Porter, Michael E.; Stern, Scott. Social Progress Index 2017 (PDF) (Report). Social Progress Imperative. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
^ "How's Life?". OECD. 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
^ "World Press Freedom Index 2016". Reporters Without Borders. 2016. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
^ "Global Peace Index 2017" (PDF). Institute for Economics and Peace. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
^ "Fragile States Index 2017". Fund for Peace. 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
^ Larger number indicates sustainability
^ "2016 official table". January 25, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
^ "The Democracy Ranking of the Quality of Democracy". Association for Development and Advancement of the Democracy Award. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
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^ von Platto, Philipp; Zeeck, Malte (2019). Expat Insider 2019 (PDF) (Report). InterNations. Retrieved September 13, 2019.

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