World Competitiveness Yearbook

The World Competitiveness Yearbook is an annual report published by the Swiss-based International Institute for Management Development on the competitiveness of nations and has been published since 1989.^[1] The yearbook benchmarks the performance of 60 countries based on 333 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)

World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2014

Rank	Country/Territory	Score[2][3]
1	United States	100.000
2	Switzerland	92.423
3	Singapore	90.966
4	Hong Kong	90.329
5	Sweden	85.833
6	Germany	85.782
7	Canada	85.429
8	United Arab Emirates	84.892
9	Denmark	84.040
10	Norway	83.293
11	Luxembourg	82.164
12	Malaysia	82.088
13	Taiwan	81.233
14	Netherlands	81.144
15	Ireland	80.360
16	United Kingdom	79.814
17	Australia	79.599
18	Finland	78.159
19	Qatar	77.116
20	New Zealand	74.943
21	Japan	73.761
22	Austria	73.699
23	China	73.258
24	Israel	73.250
25	Iceland	69.746
26	South Korea	69.649
27	France	67.941
28	Belgium	66.595
29	Thailand	64.976
30	Estonia	64.383
31	Chile	62.589
32	Kazakhstan	62.508
33	Czech Republic	62.213
34	Lithuania	62.014
35	Latvia	61.848
36	Poland	61.767
37	Indonesia	59.548
38	Russia	57.997
39	Spain	57.913
40	Turkey	57.863
41	Mexico	57.283
42	Philippines	54.952
43	Portugal	54.403
44	India	53.919
45	Slovakia	53.302
46	Italy	52.871
47	Romania	52.841
48	Hungary	52.505
49	Ukraine	50.872
50	Peru	50.576
51	Colombia	49.248
52	South Africa	48.245
53	Jordan	47.796
54	Brazil	46.778
55	Slovenia	46.245
56	Bulgaria	45.784
57	Greece	42.244
58	Argentina	39.590
59	Croatia	38.974
60	Venezuela	34.211

World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2013

Rank	Country/Territory	Score[4][5]
1	United States	100.000
2	Switzerland	93.357
3	Hong Kong	92.783
4	Sweden	90.531
5	Singapore	89.857
6	Norway	89.585
7	Canada	89.128
8	United Arab Emirates	88.439
9	Germany	86.197
10	Qatar	85.505
11	Taiwan	85.193
12	Denmark	83.514
13	Luxembourg	83.305
14	Netherlands	83.158
15	Malaysia	83.145
16	Australia	80.513
17	Ireland	79.591
18	United Kingdom	79.150
19	Israel	78.210
20	Finland	78.187
21	China	77.040
22	South Korea	75.169
23	Austria	74.711
24	Japan	74.529
25	New Zealand	73.942
26	Belgium	73.133
27	Thailand	72.966
28	France	71.327
29	Iceland	69.012
30	Chile	67.994
31	Lithuania	66.488
32	Mexico	65.626
33	Poland	65.437
34	Kazakhstan	64.899
35	Czech Republic	64.614
36	Estonia	64.422
37	Turkey	63.611
38	Philippines	63.146
39	Indonesia	61.805
40	India	59.888
41	Latvia	58.678
42	Russia	56.809
43	Peru	56.627
44	Italy	56.328
45	Spain	56.289
46	Portugal	56.225
47	Slovakia	54.485
48	Colombia	54.365
49	Ukraine	54.234
50	Hungary	53.497
51	Brazil	52.996
52	Slovenia	50.996
53	South Africa	50.627
54	Greece	49.986
55	Romania	49.703
56	Jordan	48.802
57	Bulgaria	47.800
58	Croatia	44.114
59	Argentina	42.271
60	Venezuela	31.879

See also

• Global Competitiveness Report
• Competitiveness

References