Digital Ranking 2022



Page 2: Factors breakdown & Strengths and Weaknesses

This page shows the country’s performance over time for each of the nine sub-factors composing the three Digital Competitiveness Factors (Knowledge, Technology and Future Readiness) and their 54 criteria rankings for 2022.

1. Factors Breakdown Shows the 5-years evolution of the sub-factors rankings composing the three factors of Knowledge, Technology and Future Readiness. 2. Strengths and Weaknesses This section highlights the economy’s strongest and weakest criteria included in the World Digital Compet - itiveness Ranking. The triangles ( ) identify the five top criteria in which the economy ranks best (strengths – filled triangle) and the five criteria in which its performance is the worst (weaknesses – empty triangle) compared to the other countries included in the WCY sample. The selection of indicators is determined by the standard deviation values (STD) of the country for that specific criteria. In other words, the criteria selected represent the highest STD values and the lowest STD values among the 54 indicators composing the World Digital Competi- tiveness Ranking and can thus be considered the digital competitive advantages and disadvantages of the economy. The full criteria names can be found in the Appendix and the statistical tables are available for subscribers of the IMD World Competitiveness Online. It is important to note that what constitutes a strength or weakness is relative to each economy’s circumstances or development. Also, the ranking position of a country may not necessarily improve or decline as a consequence of its own evolution since it is always relative to the performance of the other economies. Therefore, an improvement may not be reflected by a higher ranking position if other economies have performed better for the criterion in question. The same can be said for any declines in performance – the economy’s ranking position relative to the others may or may not fall, depending on how the other economies have performed.

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ARGENTINA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 47 51 56 62 61 63 62 43 46 49 41 50 55 48 48

Talent Training & education Scientific concentration

Talent

Training & education

Total expenditure on R&D (%) Total R&D personnel per capita Scientific concentration

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math 54

Employee training

62 35

52 43

International experience

52 62 58 57 16

Total public expenditure on education

38 u

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

2

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

22 59 32

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

23 51 58 36

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

u Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 48 49 57 57 61 48 51 62 63 62 53 57 56 56 55

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers Technological framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

38 w

Starting a business Enforcing contracts

60

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

62 52 58 25 57 53

48 w 15 w 62 w 60 w

62 62 62 62 36

u Immigration laws

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Development & application of tech.

Country credit rating

Internet users

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

61

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 49 57 49 50 49 37 48 39 43 37 52 52 52 59 53

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

E-Government IT integration

Rank

Rank

Rank

27 u

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

14 36 57 41 56

29 57 61 58 33 31

39 40 50 61

Public-private partnerships

Agility of companies

Cyber security Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics

Attitudes toward globalization

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity Privacy protection by law content

u

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

8

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