Germany Competitiveness Rank

Germany is the 3 most competitive nation in the world out of 140 countries ranked in the 2018 edition of the Global Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum. Competitiveness Rank in Germany averaged 5.17 from 2007 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 7 in 2007 and a record low of 3 in 2017.

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Germany Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	95.70	97.50	109.80	79.90	Index Points	[+]
Services PMI	54.50	55.80	60.30	41.30	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	43.20	45.00	63.30	32.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	50.90	52.60	59.00	50.20	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	-5.20	-4.40	15.30	-21.80	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-1.50	0.10	4.00	-6.90	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-6.10	-4.90	15.50	-24.10	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	83.90	85.40	88.70	70.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	102.90	100.20	113.50	8.80	Index Points	[+]
Factory Orders	2.50	-2.00	27.10	-15.70	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	-3.37	3.08	10.85	-11.30	EUR Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	1670.00	1689.00	3755.00	416.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	192.10	193.12	202.12	91.05	EUR Billion	[+]
Zew Economic Sentiment Index	-44.10	-24.50	89.60	-63.90		[+]
Car Production	359400.00	374700.00	583399.00	265542.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	332788.00	325231.00	552865.00	43460.00		[+]
Internet Speed	15298.72	14588.37	15298.72	3207.62	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	38794861.00	38344874.00	38794861.00	18134106.00	IP	[+]
Mining Production	-19.30	-15.90	46.60	-30.40	percent	[+]
Steel Production	3405.48	3470.00	4744.00	907.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Competitiveness Index	82.84	82.64	82.84	5.37	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	3.00	3.00	7.00	3.00		[+]
Corruption Index	80.00	81.00	82.70	73.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	11.00	12.00	20.00	10.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	24.00	20.00	27.00	14.00		[+]

Germany Competitiveness Rank

The most recent 2018 edition of Global Competitiveness Report assesses 140 economies. In 2018, the World Economic Forum introduced a new methodology emphasizing the role of human capital, innovation, resilience and agility, as not only drivers but also defining features of economic success in the 4th Industrial Revolution. As a result, the GCI scale changed to 1 to 100 from 1 to 7, with higher average score meaning higher degree of competitiveness. The report is made up of 98 variables organized into twelve pillars with the most important including: institutions; infrastructure; ICT adoption; macroeconomic stability; health; skills; product market; labour market; financial system; market size; business dynamism; and innovation capability. This page provides the latest reported value for - Germany Competitiveness Rank - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Germany Competitiveness Rank - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on August of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	3.00	3.00	7.00	3.00	2007 - 2018		Yearly

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Country	Last		Previous	Range
United States	1.00	Dec/18	1	7 : 1
Singapore	2.00	Dec/18	2	8 : 2
Germany	3.00	Dec/18	3	7 : 3
Switzerland	4.00	Dec/18	4	4 : 1
Japan	5.00	Dec/18	8	10 : 5
Netherlands	6.00	Dec/18	5	11 : 5
United Kingdom	8.00	Dec/18	6	13 : 2
Canada	12.00	Dec/18	10	15 : 9
Australia	14.00	Dec/18	15	22 : 14
South Korea	15.00	Dec/18	17	26 : 11
France	17.00	Dec/18	18	23 : 15
Spain	26.00	Dec/18	25	42 : 25
China	28.00	Dec/18	28	34 : 26
Italy	31.00	Dec/18	31	49 : 31
Saudi Arabia	39.00	Dec/18	41	41 : 17
Russia	43.00	Dec/18	45	67 : 43
Indonesia	45.00	Dec/18	47	55 : 34
Mexico	46.00	Dec/18	44	66 : 44
India	58.00	Dec/18	63	71 : 42
Turkey	61.00	Dec/18	58	63 : 43
South Africa	67.00	Dec/18	62	67 : 35
Brazil	72.00	Dec/18	69	75 : 48
Argentina	81.00	Dec/18	79	106 : 70