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Competitiveness Source: IMD International Ranking as of April 2001   Rankings Country 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 USA 1 1 1 1 1 Singapore 2 2 2 2 2 Finland 3 4 5 6 7 Luxembourg 4 6 3 3 8 Netherlands 5 3 4 4 4 Hong Kong 6 12 6 5 3 Ireland 7 5 8 7 10 Sweden 8 14 14 16 19 Canada 9 8 10 8 6 Switzerland 10 7 7 9 12 Australia 11 10 11 12 15 Germany 12 11 12 15 16 Iceland 13 9 13 18 21 Austria 14 15 18 24 20 Denmark 15 13 9 10 13 Israel 16 21 22 25 25 Belgium 17 19 21 23 23 Taiwan 18 20 15 14 18 U.K. 19 16 19 13 9 Norway 20 17 16 11 5 New Zealand 21 18 17 17 11 Estonia 22 - - - - Spain 23 23 20 26 26 Chile 24 25 25 27 24 France 25 22 23 22 22 Japan 26 24 24 20 17 Hungary 27 26 26 28 37 Korea 28 28 41 36 30 Malaysia 29 27 28 19 14 Greece 30 34 32 33 36 Brazil 31 31 34 35 34 Italy 32 32 30 31 39 China 33 30 29 21 27 Portugal 34 29 27 29 32 Czech Rep. 35 40 37 37 33 Mexico 36 33 35 34 40 Slovak Rep. 37 - - - - Thailand 38 35 36 41 31 Slovenia 39 36 39 - - Philippines 40 37 31 32 29 India 41 39 42 38 41 South Africa 42 43 43 42 42 Argentina 43 41 33 30 28 Turkey 44 42 38 39 35 Russia 45 47 46 43 46 Colombia 46 45 45 45 45 Poland 47 38 40 44 43 Venezuela 48 46 44 46 44 Indonesia 49 44 47 40 38

This page of Competitiveness rankings of countries is based on figures from IMD International. The Competitiveness data used to rank the countries is as of April, 2001.





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