IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook

IMD is one of the world’s leading business schools with over 50 years’ experience in developing the leadership capabilities of international business executives at every stage of their careers. The majority of our program participants come from medium to large corporations and all have an international orientation to their businesses. Many companies, who begin by sending their managers to IMD programs, go on to develop their relationship with the institute to a closer level and become part of the IMD Learning Network, which provides still further learning advantages.

The World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises.

·       Features 60 national and regional economies.

·       Overall ranking; rankings by population size; rankings by peer group and regional rankings.

·       Includes 314 different criteria, grouped into four Competitiveness Factors.

·       Hard data are taken from international and regional organizations and private institutes.

·       Survey data are drawn from the Executive Opinion Survey (4,000 respondents).

·       Aggregates data over a 5-year period.

·       Ensures accuracy through collaboration with 57 Partner Institutes worldwide.

·       Published without interruption since 1989.

Downloads:

 

WORLD COMPETITIVENESS YEARBOOK 2005

 Press Release  (eng.) [PDF, 2 pp, 37 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Executive Summary  (eng.) [PDF, 6 pp, 94 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Methodology  (eng.) [PDF, 9 pp, 1036 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Fundamentals (eng.) [PDF, 12 pp, 475 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Ranking 2005  (eng.) [PDF, 1 pp, 86 Kb, 12/05/05]

 List of Countries. Sample Country Profile: Chile (eng.) [PDF, 6 pp, 194 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Competitiveness Factors (eng.) [PDF, 2 pp, 49 Kb, 12/05/05]

 List of Criteria (eng.) [PDF, 10 pp, 68 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Sample Criteria (eng.) [PDF, 1 pp, 75 Kb, 12/05/05]

 Frequently Asked Questions (eng.) [PDF, 3 pp, 57 Kb]

 WCY Brochure  (eng.) [PDF, 6 pp, 480 Kb]

 WCY Online Tour (eng.) [PDF, 20 pp, 1297 Kb]

 

 

 

WORLD COMPETITIVENESS YEARBOOK 2004

Innovations for 2004:

·    1 new region: Scotland

·    Overall ranking; rankings by population size; rankings by peer group and regional rankings

·    Online database providing access to the WCY database including 5-year time series

 Press Release  (eng.) [PDF, 2 pp, 127 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Executive Summary  (eng.) [PDF, 7 pp, 268 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Methodology  (eng.) [PDF, 10 pp, 571 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Fundamentals (eng.) [PDF, 12 pp, 765 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Ranking 2004  (eng.) [PDF, 1 pp, 864 Kb, 4/05/04]

 List of Economies. Sample Country Profile: India (eng.) [PDF, 8 pp, 280 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Competitiveness Factors (eng.) [PDF, 2 pp, 185 Kb, 4/05/04]

 List of Criteria (eng.) [PDF, 10 pp, 91 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Sample Criterion: Real GDP Growth (eng.) [PDF, 1 pp, 16 Kb, 4/05/04]

 Frequently Asked Questions (eng.) [PDF, 3 pp, 214 Kb]

 WCY Brochure  (eng.) [PDF, 4 pp, 871 Kb]

 WCY Book Tour (eng.) [PDF, 20 pp, 642 Kb]

 WCY Online Tour (eng.) [PDF, 20 pp, 1475 Kb]