WDC 2020

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SAUDI ARABIA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 22 38 20 16 39 38 61 49 59

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

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

Rank

Rank

Rank

Educational assessment PISA - Math

-

Employee training

32

43

u International experience

u

11 14 29 20 41

Total public expenditure on education

1

-

u Foreign highly-skilled personnel

50 51 38 46

49 33

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

-

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

Net flow of international students

51 54

High-tech patent grants

w

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 48 50 39 36 31 13 41 56 54

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

w Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

61 43 37

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

-

31 56 28 47 51 59

w

22 20 27 25 10

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development and application of technology18

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

29 34

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

u

w

Investment in Telecommunications

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 29 43 50 38 48 36 31 33 30

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

49 45 44 41 29

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

42 52 27 22 28

43 14

w

Public-private partnerships

u

Agility of companies

Cyber security Sofware piracy

7

Use of big data and analytics

Smartphone possession

38

Knowledge transfer

Attitudes toward globalization

139

IMD WORLD DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING 2019