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World Competitiveness Center

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge on world competitiveness

World Competitiveness Center

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge on world competitiveness

For over 35 years, the IMD World Competitiveness Center has pioneered research on how nations and enterprises compete to lay the foundations for future prosperity. We are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge on world competitiveness by offering benchmarking services for countries and companies using the latest and most relevant data on the subject.

Latest: World Competitiveness Ranking 2025

Tariff wars: How business leaders can survive and thrive

by Arturo Bris, in I by IMD

The end of corporate passivity: Why business leaders must shape geopolitics, not just react to it

by Arturo Bris, on I by IMD

Featured publication

World Competitiveness Yearbook

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook is the leading annual report on the competitiveness of countries and has been published by IMD since 1989. It benchmarks the performance of 69 economies based on more than 330 criteria measuring different facets of competitiveness.

Report

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Competitiveness Ranking

The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking is based on 341 competitiveness criteria selected as a result of comprehensive research using economic literature, international, national, and regional sources, and feedback from the business community, government agencies, and academics.

Digital Competitiveness Ranking

The IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking assesses the capacity and readiness of an economy to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government, and wider society.

Talent Ranking

The IMD World Talent Ranking assesses the extent to which nations develop, attract, and retain talent for enterprises operating in those economies.

Smart City Index

The Smart City Index offers a balanced focus on the economic and technological aspects of smart cities and the “humane dimensions” of smart cities (quality of life, environment, inclusiveness).

Sustainable Trade Index

The IMD World Competitiveness Center and the Hinrich Foundation combined their expertise in 2022 to build the Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index, to stimulate discussion among policymakers, business executives, and civil society leaders striving to advance sustainable and mutually beneficial global trade.

Publication dates of the 2025 rankings

8th April

Smart City Index

(SCI)

17th June

IMD World Competitiveness Ranking

(WCY)

9th September

IMD World Talent Ranking

(WTR)

14th October

Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index

(STI)

4th November

IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking

(WDCR)

News Stories

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News Stories

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Asian and European cities inspire action for improving urban quality of life

The 2024 IMD Smart City Ranking finds European and Asian cities consistently and increasingly dominating the Top 20

News Stories

The future of the world economy: the price of our values

What does the future of the world economy look like? In his keynote address, Arturo Bris, Professor of Finance and Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC) unpacked the three key trends that have emerged globally; technology, sustain…