The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) is the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analysis of how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises.
IMD analyze the countries based on four main criteria namely Economic Performance, Government Efficiency, Business Efficiency and Infrastructure.
Each of these factors is divided into 5 sub-factors which highlight every facet of the areas analyzed.
In 2010, Malaysia managed to to emerge as the 10th most competitive country in the world from number 18th.
The table below shows the ranking of 58 countries in 2010 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook.
| Country | Ranking | 2010 Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2009 | ||
| Singapore | 1 | 3 | 100 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 2 | 99.357 |
| USA | 3 | 1 | 99.091 |
| Switzerland | 4 | 4 | 96.126 |
| Australia | 5 | 7 | 92.172 |
| Sweden | 6 | 6 | 90.893 |
| Canada | 7 | 8 | 90.459 |
| Taiwan | 8 | 23 | 90.441 |
| Norway | 9 | 11 | 89.987 |
| Malaysia | 10 | 18 | 87.228 |
| Luxembourg | 11 | 12 | 86.867 |
| Netherlands | 12 | 10 | 85.65 |
| Denmark | 13 | 5 | 85.587 |
| Austria | 14 | 16 | 84.085 |
| Qatar | 15 | 14 | 83.828 |
| Germany | 16 | 13 | 82.73 |
| Israel | 17 | 24 | 80.327 |
| China | 18 | 20 | 80.182 |
| Finland | 19 | 9 | 80.002 |
| New Zealand | 20 | 15 | 78.531 |
| Ireland | 21 | 19 | 78.144 |
| UK | 22 | 21 | 76.808 |
| Korea | 23 | 27 | 76.249 |
| France | 24 | 28 | 74.372 |
| Belgium | 25 | 22 | 73.586 |
| Thailand | 26 | 26 | 73.233 |
| Japan | 27 | 17 | 72.093 |
| Chile | 28 | 25 | 69.669 |
| Czech Republic | 29 | 29 | 65.443 |
| Iceland | 30 | – | 65.067 |
| India | 31 | 30 | 64.567 |
| Poland | 32 | 44 | 64.482 |
| Kazakhstan | 33 | 36 | 63.418 |
| Estonia | 34 | 35 | 62.641 |
| Indonesia | 35 | 42 | 60.745 |
| Spain | 36 | 39 | 58.752 |
| Portugal | 37 | 34 | 57.096 |
| Brazil | 38 | 40 | 56.531 |
| Philippines | 39 | 43 | 56.526 |
| Italy | 40 | 50 | 56.32 |
| Peru | 41 | 37 | 54.178 |
| Hungary | 42 | 45 | 54.124 |
| Lithuania | 43 | 31 | 54.098 |
| South Africa | 44 | 48 | 54.092 |
| Colombia | 45 | 51 | 53.89 |
| Greece | 46 | 52 | 52.304 |
| Mexico | 47 | 46 | 51.481 |
| Turkey | 48 | 47 | 51.119 |
| Slovak Republic | 49 | 33 | 51.092 |
| Jordan | 50 | 41 | 49.642 |
| Russia | 51 | 49 | 49.318 |
| Slovenia | 52 | 32 | 48.689 |
| Bulgaria | 53 | 38 | 47.756 |
| Romania | 54 | 54 | 47.481 |
| Argentina | 55 | 55 | 46.935 |
| Croatia | 56 | 53 | 40.056 |
| Ukraine | 57 | 56 | 39.948 |
| Venezuela | 58 | 57 | 27.97 |