Wednesday, September 5, 2012


  • Competitiveness gap widening among European countries
  • US remains world’s innovation powerhouse despite decline in overall ranking
  • People’s Republic of China most competitive among large emerging markets; India, Russia fall
  • Download the full report profiling 144 economies, highlights, rankings and more at http://www.weforum.org/gcr
  • Watch the video interviews on the results of the report
Geneva, Switzerland, 5 September 2012 – Switzerland, for the fourth consecutive year, tops the overall rankings in The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013, released today by the World Economic Forum. Singapore remains in second position and Finland in third position, overtaking Sweden (4th). These and other Northern and Western European countries dominate the top 10 with the Netherlands (5th), Germany (6th) and United Kingdom (8th). The United States (7th), Hong Kong (9th) and Japan (10th) complete the ranking of the top 10 most competitive economies.

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