Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SAUDI ARABIA

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 38 20 34 32 28 39 38 34 34 24 49 59 62 64 58

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

14 03 28 43 40 34

56 08 10 26 07 36

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

50

w Educational assessment PISA - Math

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

- -

u

u International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

13 54 46 53

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

w

u Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants Robots in Education and R&D

Net flow of international students

w

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 50 39 25 30 25 31 13 05 15 22 56 54 47 35 34

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

50 14 20 34 09 19

22 36 38 10 25 26

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

13 31 18 10 46 61

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 43 50 37 46 33 48 36 28 35 32 33 30 24 24 33

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

20 50 20 23 23 46

50 48 31 20 15

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

38 09 02 38 21 61

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

u

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

u

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

w

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