The World Competitiveness Yearbook is an annual report published by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on the competitiveness of nations and has been published since 1989.[1] The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 63 countries based on 340 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness. It uses two types of data:

Ranking of countries from 1997

World Competitiveness Yearbook, from 1997, with latest year reported in 2023.
Nation/Territory 1997 2002 2007 2012 2017 2019[a] 2020[2] 2021[3] 2022[3] 2023[4]
 Singapore 2 8 2 4 3 1 1 5 3 4
 Hong Kong 3 13 3 1 1 2 5 7 5 7
 United States 1 1 1 2 4 3 10 10 10 9
  Switzerland 12 5 6 3 2 4 3 1 2 3
 United Arab Emirates - - - 16 10 5 9 9 12 10
 Netherlands 4 4 8 11 5 6 4 4 6 5
 Ireland 10 9 14 20 6 7 12 13 11 2
 Denmark 13 6 5 13 7 8 2 3 1 1
 Sweden 19 12 9 5 9 9 6 2 4 8
 Qatar - - - 10 17 10 14 17 18 12
 Norway 5 14 13 8 11 11 7 6 9 14
 Luxembourg 8 2 4 12 8 12 15 12 13 20
 Canada 6 7 10 6 12 13 8 14 14 15
 China 27 28 15 23 18 14 20 16 17 21
 Finland 7 3 17 17 15 15 13 11 8 11
 Taiwan 18 20 18 7 14 16 11 8 7 6
 Germany 16 17 16 9 13 17 17 15 15 22
 Australia 15 10 12 15 21 18 18 22 19 19
 Austria 20 15 11 21 25 19 16 19 20 24
 Iceland 21 11 7 26 20 20 21 21 16 16
 New Zealand 11 18 19 24 16 21 22 20 31 31
 Malaysia 14 24 23 14 24 22 27 25 32 27
 United Kingdom 9 16 20 18 19 23 19 18 23 29
 Israel 25 26 21 19 22 24 26 27 25 23
 Thailand 31 31 33 30 27 25 29 28 33 30
 Saudi Arabia - - - - 36 26 24 32 24 17
 Belgium 23 19 25 25 23 27 25 24 21 13
 South Korea 30 29 29 22 29 28 23 23 27 28
 Lithuania - - 31 36 33 29 31 30 29 32
 Japan 17 27 24 27 26 30 34 31 34 35
 France 22 25 28 29 31 31 32 29 28 33
 Indonesia 38 47 54 42 42 32 40 37 44 34
 Czech Republic 33 32 32 33 28 33 33 34 26 18
 Kazakhstan - - - 32 32 34 42 35 43 37
 Estonia - 21 22 31 30 35 28 26 22 26
 Spain 26 23 30 39 34 36 36 39 36 36
 Slovenia - 35 40 51 43 37 35 40 38 42
 Poland 43 45 52 34 38 38 39 47 50 43
 Portugal 32 33 39 41 39 39 37 36 42 39
 Latvia - - - - 40 40 41 38 35 51
 Cyprus - - - - 37 41 30 33 40 45
 Chile 24 22 26 28 35 42 38 44 45 44
 India 41 41 27 35 45 43 43 43 37 40
 Italy 39 34 42 40 44 44 44 41 41 41
 Russia 46 44 43 48 46 45 50 - - -
 Philippines 29 40 45 43 41 46 45 52 48 52
 Hungary 37 30 35 45 52 47 47 42 39 46
 Bulgaria - - 41 54 49 48 48 53 53 57
 Romania - - 44 53 50 49 51 48 51 48
 Mexico 40 43 47 37 48 50 53 55 55 56
 Turkey 35 49 48 38 47 51 46 51 52 47
 Colombia 45 42 38 52 54 52 54 56 57 58
 Slovakia - 38 34 47 51 53 57 50 49 53
 Ukraine - - 46 56 60 54 55 - - -
 Peru - - - 44 55 55 52 58 54 55
 South Africa 42 39 50 50 53 56 59 62 60 61
 Jordan - - 37 49 56 57 58 49 56 54
 Greece 36 36 36 58 57 58 49 46 47 49
 Brazil 34 37 49 46 61 59 56 57 59 60
 Croatia - - 53 57 59 60 60 59 46 50
 Argentina 28 48 51 55 58 61 62 63 62 63
 Mongolia - - - - 62 62 61 60 61 62
 Venezuela 44 46 55 59 63 63 63 66 63 64
 Bahrain - - - - - - - - 30 25
 Botswana - - - - - - - 61 58 59
 Kuwait - - - - - - - - - 38

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ Latest year reported.

References

  1. ^ "IMD International". IMD. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  2. ^ "World Competitiveness Ranking 2020". IMD business school. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. ^ a b "World Competitiveness Rankings - IMD". IMD business school. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  4. ^ "World Competitiveness – IMD business school for management and leadership courses". www.imd.org. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference نمتمئمنئم was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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