World Competitiveness Yearbook

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:

• 2/3 hard statistical data (international/national sources)
• 1/3 survey data (Executive Opinion Survey)

Ranking of countries in 5-year periods

World Competitiveness Yearbook, in period of 5 years, with latest year reported.[2][lower-alpha 1]

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

See also

• Global Competitiveness Report
• Competition (companies)

Notes

1. Search Criteria: Competitiveness ranking, Consolidated rankings, Overall competitiveness, All countries, All years
2. Latest year reported.

References

1. "IMD International". IMD. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
2. "IMD World Competitiveness Online - Custom Search". IMD World Competitiveness Online. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
3. "World Competitiveness Ranking 2020". IMD business school. Retrieved 2020-06-17.