Data suppliers
We rely on a number of international organizations and private institutions to supply us with the most up-to-date and accurate hard data available before we compile each edition of the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. We are grateful for their support and permission to reproduce their statistical material.
| Company name | Location |
| BMI Research | London, UK |
| Computer Industry Almanac Inc. | Arlington Heights, USA |
| Cushmam & Wakefield | Office Space Across the World Report, London, UK |
| Educational Testing Service (The TOEFL® Test) | Princeton, USA |
| Euromonitor International | London, UK |
| Eurostat | Luxembourg |
| Fitch | London, UK |
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN | Rome, Italy |
| Global Footprint Network | Oakland, USA Geneva, Switzerland |
| GMI Ratings | New York, USA |
| HCM Compensations Insights & Technology AG | Geneva, Switzerland |
| International Civil Aviation Organization | Montreal, Canada |
| International Energy Agency | Paris, France |
| International Labour Office (ILO) | Geneva, Switzerland |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, USA |
| International Union of Railways | Paris, France |
| Mercer HR Consulting | Geneva, Switzerland |
| M-Labs and cable.co.uk | London, UK |
| MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, USA |
| Moody's | New York, USA |
| MSCI | New York, USA |
| National Science Foundation | Arlington, USA |
| OECD, Environmental data | Paris, France |
| OECD, Statistics Department | Paris, France |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | Lausanne and Basel, Switzerland |
| Standard and Poor's | New York, USA |
| The Nobel Foundation | Stockholm, Sweden |
| The Conference Board | New York, USA |
| The World Justice Project | Washington DC, USA |
| Thomson Reuters | London, UK |
| Times Higher Education: World University Ranking | London, UK |
| UNCTAD | Geneva, Switzerland |
| UNESCO Institute for Statistics | Montreal, Canada |
| Union Bank of Switzerland, Economic Research Department | Zurich, Switzerland |
| US Department of Agriculture | Washington DC, USA |
| WIFO Austrian Institute of Economic Research | Vienna, Austria |
| World Bank, WDI Database | Washington, D.C., USA |
| World Health Organization | Geneva, Switzerland |
| World Intellectual Property, WIPO Statistics Database | Geneva, Switzerland |
| World Tourism Organization | Madrid, Spain |
| World Trade Organization | Geneva, Switzerland |
