Ranking and Score: Malaysia and other Selected Countries in Global Innovation Index (GII), 2016-2022
COUNTRY / ECONOMY |
INCOME |
2022 |
2021 |
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
2016 |
RANK |
SCORE |
RANK |
SCORE |
RANK |
SCORE |
RANK |
SCORE |
RANK |
SCORE |
RANK |
SCORE |
RANK |
SCORE |
(0-100) |
(0-100) |
(0-100) |
(0-100) |
(0-100) |
(0-100) |
(0-100) |
Switzerland |
HI |
1 |
64.62 |
1 |
65.50 |
1 |
66.08 |
1 |
67.24 |
1 |
68.40 |
1 |
67.69 |
1 |
66.28 |
USA |
HI |
2 |
61.78 |
3 |
61.30 |
3 |
60.56 |
3 |
61.73 |
6 |
59.81 |
4 |
61.40 |
4 |
61.40 |
Sweden |
HI |
3 |
61.56 |
2 |
63.10 |
2 |
62.47 |
2 |
63.65 |
3 |
63.08 |
2 |
63.82 |
2 |
63.57 |
United Kingdom |
HI |
4 |
59.73 |
4 |
59.80 |
4 |
59.78 |
5 |
61.30 |
4 |
60.13 |
5 |
60.89 |
3 |
61.93 |
Netherlands |
HI |
5 |
58.04 |
6 |
58.60 |
5 |
58.76 |
4 |
61.44 |
2 |
63.32 |
3 |
63.36 |
9 |
58.29 |
Republic of Korea |
HI |
6 |
57.78 |
5 |
59.30 |
10 |
56.11 |
11 |
56.55 |
12 |
56.63 |
11 |
57.70 |
11 |
57.15 |
Singapore |
HI |
7 |
57.25 |
8 |
57.80 |
8 |
56.61 |
8 |
58.37 |
5 |
59.83 |
7 |
58.69 |
6 |
59.16 |
Germany |
HI |
8 |
57.23 |
10 |
57.30 |
9 |
56.55 |
9 |
58.19 |
9 |
58.03 |
9 |
58.39 |
10 |
57.94 |
Finland |
HI |
9 |
56.88 |
7 |
58.40 |
7 |
57.02 |
6 |
59.83 |
7 |
59.63 |
8 |
58.49 |
5 |
59.90 |
Denmark |
HI |
10 |
55.93 |
9 |
57.30 |
6 |
57.53 |
7 |
58.44 |
8 |
58.39 |
6 |
58.70 |
8 |
58.45 |
China |
UM |
11 |
55.26 |
12 |
54.80 |
14 |
53.28 |
14 |
54.82 |
17 |
53.06 |
22 |
52.54 |
25 |
50.57 |
France |
HI |
12 |
54.96 |
11 |
55.00 |
12 |
53.66 |
16 |
54.25 |
16 |
54.36 |
15 |
54.18 |
18 |
54.04 |
Japan |
HI |
13 |
53.57 |
13 |
54.50 |
16 |
52.70 |
15 |
54.68 |
13 |
54.95 |
14 |
54.72 |
16 |
54.52 |
Hong Kong, China |
HI |
14 |
51.76 |
14 |
53.70 |
11 |
54.24 |
13 |
55.54 |
14 |
54.62 |
16 |
53.88 |
14 |
55.69 |
Israel |
HI |
16 |
50.23 |
15 |
53.40 |
13 |
53.55 |
10 |
57.43 |
11 |
56.79 |
17 |
53.88 |
21 |
52.28 |
Malaysia |
UM |
36 |
38.72 |
36 |
41.90 |
33 |
42.42 |
35 |
42.68 |
35 |
43.16 |
37 |
42.72 |
35 |
43.36 |
Thailand |
UM |
43 |
34.86 |
43 |
37.20 |
44 |
36.68 |
43 |
38.63 |
44 |
38.00 |
51 |
37.57 |
52 |
36.51 |
Vietnam |
LM |
48 |
34.25 |
44 |
37.00 |
42 |
37.12 |
42 |
38.84 |
45 |
37.94 |
47 |
38.34 |
59 |
35.37 |
Philippines |
LM |
59 |
30.68 |
51 |
35.30 |
50 |
35.19 |
54 |
36.18 |
73 |
31.56 |
73 |
32.48 |
74 |
31.83 |
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Source: Global Innovation Index | Tracking Innovation through the COVID-19 Crisis
Summary
The table above shows the achievement of several countries in the Global Innovation Index for 2016-2022. Malaysia is categorised as an Upper Middle (UM) income country based on its gross national income (GNI) per capita. In 2022, Malaysia maintained its ranked 36th as the previous year.