Global Competitiveness Index

(GCI) 4.0
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Report generated on: May 17, 2025

Project type: timeseries-db

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Database description
Title statement

Primary ID
WEF_GCI

Title
Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 4.0

Description

Authoring entity
Name URL
World Economic Forum (WEF) https://www.weforum.org/

Abstract
The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) 4.0, developed by the World Economic Forum, tracks the
performance of 140 countries across 12 pillars of competitiveness: Institutions, Infrastructure, ICT
Adoption, Macroeconomic Stability, Health, Skills, Product Market, Labor Market, Financial System, Market
Size, Business Dynamism, and Innovation Capability. A country’s performance on the overall GCI and each
of its components is reported as a ‘progress score’ on a 0-to-100 scale, where 100 represents the
‘frontier’—an ideal state where an issue no longer constrains productivity growth. The GCI 4.0 framework
was introduced in the 2018 edition of the Global Competitiveness Report.

Version
Version Date
1.0 2025-03-07

Update frequency
Archived

Topics
ID Topic Parent ID Vocabulary URL
WB Practice
P3 Prosperity https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/codelist/WB.DATA360/CL_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Groups
WB Practice
P4 Infrastructure https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/codelist/WB.DATA360/CL_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Groups
Trade,
Data360
P3_000006 Investment and P3 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L1
Competitiveness
Data360
P3_000003 Institutions P3 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L1
Data360
P3_000001 Economic Policy P3 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L1
Data360
P4_000003 Transport P4 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L1
Energy & Data360
P4_000001 P4 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Extractives Topic L1
Data360
P4_000023 Air Transport P4_000003 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2

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 Economic and
Data360
P3_000014 Sociopolitical P3_000003 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
Governance
Data360
P3_000007 Growth and Jobs P3_000001 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
Investment and
Data360
P3_000022 Business P3_000006 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
Climate
Data360
P3_000008 Fiscal Policy P3_000001 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
Highway Asset
Management Data360
P4_000026 P4_000003 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
and Rural Topic L2
Access
Macro-financial Data360
P3_000009 P3_000001 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Policies Topic L2
Markets,
Data360
P3_000023 Competition, P3_000006 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
and Technology
Public Finance Data360
P3_000015 P3_000003 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Management Topic L2
Public Data360
P3_000016 P3_000003 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Institutions Topic L2
Regional
Connectivity Data360
P4_000030 P4_000003 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
and Transport Topic L2
Corridors
Trade Policies
Data360
P3_000024 and Enabling P3_000006 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
Factors
Data360
P3_000028 Trade Outcomes P3_000006 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Topic L2
Utility Data360
P4_000015 P4_000001 https://fmr.worldbank.org/FMR/sdmx/v2/structure/hierarchy/WB.DATA360/H_D360_TOPICS/1.0
Performance Topic L2

Geographic coverage

Countries
Name Code
Angola AGO
Albania ALB
United Arab Emirates ARE
Argentina ARG
Armenia ARM
Australia AUS
Austria AUT
Azerbaijan AZE
Burundi BDI
Belgium BEL
Benin BEN
Burkina Faso BFA
Bangladesh BGD
Bulgaria BGR
Bahrain BHR
Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH
Bolivia BOL

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Brazil BRA
Barbados BRB
Brunei Darussalam BRN
Botswana BWA
Canada CAN
Switzerland CHE
Chile CHL
China CHN
Côte d’Ivoire CIV
Cameroon CMR
Congo, Dem. Rep. COD
Colombia COL
Cabo Verde CPV
Costa Rica CRI
Cyprus CYP
Czechia CZE
Germany DEU
Denmark DNK
Dominican Republic DOM
Algeria DZA
Ecuador ECU
Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
Spain ESP
Estonia EST
Ethiopia ETH
Finland FIN
France FRA
Gabon GAB
United Kingdom GBR
Georgia GEO
Ghana GHA
Guinea GIN
Gambia, The GMB
Greece GRC
Guatemala GTM
Hong Kong SAR, China HKG
Honduras HND
Croatia HRV
Haiti HTI
Hungary HUN
Indonesia IDN
India IND

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Ireland IRL
Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN
Iceland ISL
Israel ISR
Italy ITA
Jamaica JAM
Jordan JOR
Japan JPN
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kenya KEN
Kyrgyz Republic KGZ
Cambodia KHM
Korea, Rep. KOR
Kuwait KWT
Lao PDR LAO
Lebanon LBN
Sri Lanka LKA
Lesotho LSO
Lithuania LTU
Luxembourg LUX
Latvia LVA
Morocco MAR
Moldova MDA
Madagascar MDG
Mexico MEX
North Macedonia MKD
Mali MLI
Malta MLT
Montenegro MNE
Mongolia MNG
Mozambique MOZ
Mauritania MRT
Mauritius MUS
Malawi MWI
Malaysia MYS
Namibia NAM
Nigeria NGA
Nicaragua NIC
Netherlands NLD
Norway NOR
Nepal NPL
New Zealand NZL

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Oman OMN
Pakistan PAK
Panama PAN
Peru PER
Philippines PHL
Poland POL
Portugal PRT
Paraguay PRY
Qatar QAT
Romania ROU
Russian Federation RUS
Rwanda RWA
Saudi Arabia SAU
Senegal SEN
Singapore SGP
El Salvador SLV
Serbia SRB
Slovak Republic SVK
Slovenia SVN
Sweden SWE
Eswatini SWZ
Seychelles SYC
Chad TCD
Thailand THA
Tajikistan TJK
Trinidad and Tobago TTO
Tunisia TUN
Türkiye TUR
Taiwan, China TWN
Tanzania TZA
Uganda UGA
Ukraine UKR
Uruguay URY
United States USA
Venezuela, RB VEN
Vietnam VNM
Yemen, Rep. YEM
South Africa ZAF
Zambia ZMB
Zimbabwe ZWE

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Time coverage and periodicity

Time coverage
Start End
2017 2019

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