Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BAHRAIN

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 - - - - 13 - - - - 48 - - - - 31

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

25 61 34 49 58 03

-

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

- -

Educational assessment PISA - Math

07 08 17 13 29

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

w

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

19

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

- -

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

w

Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

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

41 -

u

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 - - - - 32 - - - - 34 - - - - 17

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

26 28 18 59 38 06

33 42 04 15 33 33

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

14 04 10 04 34 58

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

u

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

u Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

w

u

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 - - - - 23 - - - - 29 - - - - 46

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

34

40 41 01 24 13

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

34 17 11 46 51 60

E-Participation

-

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

30 32 25

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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