IMD 2025年世界数字竞争力排名

Reconfiguring digital strategiesamid trade fragmentation Preface Secondly, while talent remains mobile, people are not enteringcertain countries in the same numbers due to geopoliticalinstability. This affects digital competitiveness when domesticpolicies and regional instability combust into a situation wheremore talent is leaving the country than entering it. Several of theeconomies we assess are victims of this and have fallen in ourrankings, as my colleagues’ analysis will expose. The IMD World Competitiveness Center has long played a rolein improving nations’ abilities to generate sustainable value andimprove the quality of life for its citizens, through in-depth dataand analysis. In 2017, we bolstered our ability to do this by creating a digitalranking. That year, blockchain technology was sparking greatinterest, and voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and GoogleAssistant were starting to bring AI technology into the homeand workplace. Fast forward eight years, and the digitaleconomy now accounts for 15% of world GDP, with AI integratedat scale into healthcare, finance, education, and manufacturing. Thirdly, in a fragmented world, regulatory advantages arebecoming a key determinant of digital competitiveness.Regulatory clarification and safety enable companies andgovernments to incorporate the technology available asefficiently and effectively as possible. We have the EU, the US,and Southeast Asia recognizing this with certain regulatoryimprovements. November 2025 IMD World DigitalCompetitiveness Ranking 2025 The digital economy might not seem dependent on traditionaltrade flows due to its intangibility. But this year’s ranking fi ndsthat trade wars are affecting it –and in turn dictating digitalcompetitiveness at both national and firm levels. In addition,the 2025 ranking takes a microscopic lens to industry trendsin today’s digital geopolitical sphere, using data from the IMDExecutive Opinion Survey. Readers can therefore not onlyunderstand their country’s mechanisms, but those of theirsector on a global level. This year, we’ve added data on AI-related patent publications(from the WIPO Statistics Database) and on annual privateinvestment in artificial intelligence (from Quid, via the StanfordAI Index Report). Namibia, Kenya, and Oman are welcomenewcomers. Copyright © 2025IMD –International Institute for Management Development23, Ch. de BelleriveP.O. Box 915CH-1001 LausanneSwitzerland Our thanks go to our partner institutes for their continuedcommitment to facilitating this publication, and especiallytheir support in disseminating our survey and supporting ourstatistical data collection, enabling us to ensure accuracy andlocal relevance. Global trade fragmentation is affecting the digitalcompetitiveness of nations in three main ways: firstly, it’screating winners and losers in digital infrastructure (the winnershave been investing more in recent years than others, building abetter framework, say, for telecoms, internet, or the applicationof technologies, enabling domestic reliance). e-mail: wccinfo@imd.orgInternet: www.imd.org/wcc Choose the productthat meets your needs Visit our eShop:www.wcceshop.org Arturo BrisDirectorIMD World Competitiveness Center Profiles Table of contents The IMD WorldCompetitiveness Center For more than thirty-five years, the IMD World CompetitivenessCenter has pioneered research on how countries and companiescompete to lay the foundations for sustainable value creation.The competitiveness of nations is probably one of the mostsignificant developments in modern management and IMD iscommitted to leading the field. The World CompetitivenessCenter conducts its mission in cooperation with a network of 73Partner Institutes in 60 countries to provide the government,business and academic communities with the following services: The IMD World CompetitivenessCenter Team Professor Arturo BrisDirectorJean-François KaeserIT Consultant (KAESCO Consulting) José CaballeroSenior Economist Competitiveness Special Reports IMD World Digital CompetitivenessRanking Odete MadureiraWCC Coordinator Competitiveness PrognosticReports William MilnerAssociate DirectorChristos CabolisChief Economist & Head of Operations IMD World Talent Ranking Fabian GrimmResearch Specialist Chinar SharmaProjects Analyst Workshops/Mega Dives oncompetitiveness Hinrich-IMD Sustainable TradeIndex Madeleine HedigerData Research and Online ServicesSpecialist IMD World CompetitivenessYearbook Smart City Index Matisse GrafIntern We also have the privilege of collaborating with a unique networkof Partner Institutes, and other organizations, which guaranteesthe relevance of the data gathered. Contact Database:https://worldcompetitiveness.imd.org e-mail: wccinfo@imd.orgInternet: www.imd.org/wcc Partner Institutes We would like to express our deep appreciation for the contributionof our Partner Institutes, enabling an extensive coverage ofcompetitiveness in their home countries. The follo