Ranking Industrial Competitiveness Worldwide

Here is how 150 economies worldwide ranked in UNIDOs Competitive Industrial Performance Index, which measures manufacturing sectors along three dimensions: (1) capacity to produce and export manufactured goods, (2) technological deepening and upgrading, and (3) world impact.

The map shows both the score from 0-1 per country (higher score indicating higher competitiveness) as well as the country ranking in 2021.

Top 10 in 2021:

1. Germany
2. China
3. Ireland
4. Republic of Korea
5. United States
6. China, Taiwan
7. Switzerland
8. Japan
9. Singapore
10. Netherlands

For comparison, these were the top 10 in 1990:

1. Germany
2. Japan
3. United States of America
4. Italy
5. Switzerland
6. France
7. United Kingdom
8. Canada
9. Netherlands
10. Belgium

Notably, the CIP Index currently focuses only on economic competitiveness, with UNIDO working towards incorporating social and environmental impacts into broader measures of industrial performance.

Read more about the CIP index and access individual country profiles here: https://stat.unido.org/cip/.