China Competitiveness Rank

China is the 28 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 China averaged 29.17 from 2007 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 34 in 2008 and a record low of 26 in 2012.

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China Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	49.40	50.00	59.20	38.80	Index Points	[+]
Services PMI	53.90	53.80	54.70	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	53.80	53.40	62.20	50.80	percent	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	49.70	50.20	52.30	47.20		[+]
Industrial Production	5.70	5.40	29.40	-21.10	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.36	0.47	1.32	0.13	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	5.60	6.10	11.40	5.60	percent	[+]
New Orders	49.70	50.40	65.10	32.30	Index Points	[+]
Changes in Inventories	14186.00	11054.00	14186.00	3.00	CNY HML	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	2661500.00	2547800.00	3060271.00	88416.00		[+]
Car Production	2054600.00	2122900.00	2669100.00	215533.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	2233100.00	2173500.00	2672300.00	213534.00		[+]
Internet Speed	7583.32	6295.74	7583.32	635.70	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	98862937.00	104032031.00	119094184.00	28818357.00	IP	[+]
Steel Production	77621.00	82552.00	82552.00	4918.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	2.30	3.80	7.90	-3.80	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	76.00	76.50	78.00	72.90	percent	[+]
Competitiveness Index	72.61	71.76	72.61	4.55	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	28.00	28.00	34.00	26.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	52.20	51.90	53.70	48.00		[+]
Cement Production	20521.00	22043.20	23427.00	781.50	Ten Thousands of Tonnes	[+]
Corruption Index	41.00	40.00	41.00	21.60	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	77.00	79.00	100.00	40.00		[+]
Corporate Profits	6116880.00	5521180.00	7518710.00	1617.00	CNY Million	[+]
Ease of Doing Business	46.00	78.00	99.00	46.00		[+]
Electricity Production	533000.00	548300.00	640500.00	41760.00	Gigawatt-hour	[+]

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 - China Competitiveness Rank - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. China Competitiveness Rank - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on January of 2019.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	28.00	28.00	34.00	26.00	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