Digital Ranking 2022

Notes and Sources by Criteria The source of the survey criteria is always : IMD World Competitiveness Center’s Executive Opinion Survey 2022. Which was conducted from mid-February to early May 2022, with a total number of 6’031 respondents.

Standard notes used in the data tables

When statistical data is not available or is too out-dated to be relevant for a particular economy, the name appears at the bottom of the statistical table and a dash is shown. When the data is older than the reference year, the year of the data is shown next to the criterion value.

Exchange Rate

As most data are expressed in U.S. dollars, you will find the exchange rates used at the begin - ning of the Statistical Tables. The sources for the Exchange Rates are International Financial Statistics Online February 2022 (IMF) and national sources.

Per capita

For all information presented “per capita” the sources for the population are Passport GMID (Euromonitor) and national sources.

% of GDP

For all information presented as a “percentage of GDP” the sources for GDP are the OECD Main Economic Indicators April 2022 and national sources.

Background

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Exchange Rate International Financial Statistics Online February-March 2022 (IMF) National sources

Period average.

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Population - market size World Economic Outlook April 2022 National sources

Mid-year estimates. Croatia: new census in 2011 with a new methodology. India: break in series in 2011. Iceland, Romania as of January 1. Jordan: series have been revised according to the the new Population and Housing Census published in 2016. End of year population for 2019 and 2020. Lithuania: break in series 2011 - census revised population figure downwards by 10% (emigration to EU over past decade). Philippines: Projected population (medium assumption) excluding for 2015, which is based on the 2015 Census. Portugal: methodological change in 2011. Russia: including Crimea as of 2015. UAE: re-estimation of the national population was made by the National Bureau of Statistics in 2010 (consequent increase as of 2008).

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GDP per capita OECD (2022), Main Economic Indicators - complete database National sources

Provisional data or estimates for most recent year. Malaysia: Data for 2021 is sum of 4 quarters. Taiwan, China: 2019 and 2020 data are revised according to the annual revisions released by DGBAS in November 2021.

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