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 2011, Malaysia drop to 16th position from number 10th in 2010.
The table below shows the ranking of 59 countries in 2011 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook.
| Country | Ranking | 2010 Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2010 | ||
| HONG KONG | 1 | 2 | 100 |
| USA | 1 | 3 | 100 |
| SINGAPORE | 3 | 1 | 98.557 |
| SWEDEN | 4 | 6 | 94.063 |
| SWITZERLAND | 5 | 4 | 92.588 |
| TAIWAN | 6 | 8 | 92.011 |
| CANADA | 7 | 7 | 90.782 |
| QATAR | 8 | 15 | 90.219 |
| AUSTRALIA | 9 | 5 | 89.259 |
| GERMANY | 10 | 16 | 87.824 |
| LUXEMBOURG | 11 | 11 | 86.475 |
| DENMARK | 12 | 13 | 86.418 |
| NORWAY | 13 | 9 | 86.313 |
| NETHERLANDS | 14 | 12 | 85.707 |
| FINLAND | 15 | 19 | 84.380 |
| MALAYSIA | 16 | 10 | 84.120 |
| ISRAEL | 17 | 17 | 81.629 |
| AUSTRIA | 18 | 14 | 81.619 |
| CHINA MAINLAND | 19 | 18 | 81.100 |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 20 | 22 | 80.278 |
| NEW ZEALAND | 21 | 20 | 79.799 |
| KOREA | 22 | 23 | 78.499 |
| BELGIUM | 23 | 25 | 77.599 |
| IRELAND | 24 | 21 | 77.101 |
| CHILE | 25 | 28 | 76.827 |
| JAPAN | 26 | 27 | 75.214 |
| THAILAND | 27 | 26 | 74.886 |
| UAE | 28 | N/A | 73.188 |
| FRANCE | 29 | 24 | 71.394 |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | 30 | 29 | 70.990 |
| ICELAND | 31 | 30 | 70.821 |
| INDIA | 32 | 31 | 70.649 |
| ESTONIA | 33 | 34 | 68.264 |
| POLAND | 34 | 32 | 66.860 |
| SPAIN | 35 | 36 | 66.675 |
| KAZAKHSTAN | 36 | 33 | 66.152 |
| INDONESIA | 37 | 35 | 64.610 |
| MEXICO | 38 | 47 | 64.025 |
| TURKEY | 39 | 48 | 63.787 |
| PORTUGAL | 40 | 37 | 63.785 |
| PHILIPPINES | 41 | 39 | 63.291 |
| ITALY | 42 | 40 | 62.748 |
| PERU | 43 | 41 | 62.651 |
| BRAZIL | 44 | 38 | 61.043 |
| LITHUANIA | 45 | 43 | 60.211 |
| COLOMBIA | 46 | 45 | 59.774 |
| HUNGARY | 47 | 42 | 58.918 |
| SLOVAK REPUBLIC | 48 | 49 | 58.593 |
| RUSSIA | 49 | 51 | 58.376 |
| ROMANIA | 50 | 54 | 57.497 |
| SLOVENIA | 51 | 52 | 56.880 |
| SOUTH AFRICA | 52 | 44 | 56.856 |
| JORDAN | 53 | 50 | 55.184 |
| ARGENTINA | 54 | 55 | 54.671 |
| BULGARIA | 55 | 53 | 53.562 |
| GREECE | 56 | 46 | 51.882 |
| UKRAINE | 57 | 57 | 51.454 |
| CROATIA | 58 | 56 | 49.402 |
| VENEZUELA | 59 | 58 | 35.249 |