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Competitiveness Ranking
COMPETITIVENESS RANKING (Ranks 1 - 30)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

100.000 (1) Hong Kong SAR 1

99.664 (2) Switzerland 2

99.488 (4) Singapore 3

98.656 (3) USA 4

96.548 (8) Netherlands 5

95.794 (7) Ireland 6

95.558 (6) Denmark 7

95.059 (11) Luxembourg 8

94.961 (5) Sweden 9

94.084 (15) UAE 10

93.071 (9) Norway 11

92.251 (10) Canada 12

91.585 (12) Germany 13

90.482 (14) Taiwan 14

88.891 (20) Finland 15

88.668 (16) New Zealand 16

88.103 (13) Qatar 17

87.758 (25) China Mainland 18

86.776 (18) United Kingdom 19

86.398 (23) Iceland 20

85.245 (17) Australia 21

85.096 (21) Israel 22

83.905 (22) Belgium 23

83.530 (19) Malaysia 24

83.326 (24) Austria 25

82.267 (26) Japan 26

80.095 (28) Thailand 27

78.958 (27) Czech Republic 28

78.649 (29) Korea Rep. 29

77.759 (31) Estonia 30

(2016 rankings are in parentheses)

COMPETITIVENESS RANKING (Ranks 31 - 63)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

77.677 (32) France 31

76.339 (47) Kazakhstan 32

75.615 (30) Lithuania 33

74.838 (34) Spain 34

74.482 (36) Chile 35

74.333 () Saudi Arabia 36

73.765 () Cyprus 37

73.721 (33) Poland 38

72.169 (39) Portugal 39

71.846 (37) Latvia 40

71.798 (42) Philippines 41

71.116 (48) Indonesia 42

70.749 (43) Slovenia 43

70.539 (35) Italy 44

69.701 (41) India 45

68.852 (44) Russia 46

68.180 (38) Turkey 47

67.300 (45) Mexico 48

65.733 (50) Bulgaria 49

64.744 (49) Romania 50

64.727 (40) Slovak Republic 51

64.420 (46) Hungary 52

62.315 (52) South Africa 53

61.786 (51) Colombia 54

60.982 (54) Peru 55

57.960 (53) Jordan 56

57.764 (56) Greece 57 The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking

presents the 2017 overall ranking for the
57.647 (55) Argentina 58 63 economies covered by the WCY. The
economies are ranked from the most to the
56.519 (58) Croatia 59
least competitive and the results from the
56.126 (59) Ukraine 60 previous years ranking (2016) are shown in
brackets. The Scores shown to the left are
55.820 (57) Brazil 61 actually indices (0 to 100) generated for the
unique purpose of constructing charts and
48.136 (60) Mongolia 62
graphics.
32.742 (61) Venezuela 63

(2016 rankings are in parentheses)