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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

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.

Ranking and Score of Selected Countries in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY), 2014-2019 

NO. COUNTRY 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE RANK SCORE
1 Singapore 1 100.00 3 98.55 3 99.49 4 97.65 3 95.00 3 91.00
2 Hong Kong 2 97.80 2 99.16 1 100.00 1 100.00 2 96.00 4 90.30
3 USA 3 97.12 1 100.00 4 98.66 3 97.88 1 100.00 1 100.00
4 Switzerland 4 96.01 5 97.14 2 99.66 2 98.02 4 91.92 2 92.42
5 Qatar 10 91.95 14 88.89 17 88.10 13 86.72 13 84.60 19 77.10
6 China 14 88.78 13 89.03 18 87.76 25 79.35 22 77.00 23 73.30
7 Taiwan 16 88.24 17 87.91 14 90.48 14 86.37 11 85.40 13 81.20
8 Germany 17 85.74 15 88.75 13 91.59 12 88.57 10 85.60 6 85.80
9 Australia 18 85.51 19 87.06 21 85.25 17 84.27 18 80.50 17 79.60
10 Malaysia 22 82.54 22 85.17 24 83.53 19 83.05 14 84.10 12 82.10
11 UK 23 81.84 20 85.62 19 86.78 18 83.34 19 79.90 16 79.80
12 Thailand 25 77.23 30 79.45 27 80.10 28 74.68 30 69.80 29 65.00
13 Korea 28 76.50 27 80.12 29 78.65 29 74.20 25 73.90 26 69.70
14 Japan 30 74.63 25 81.31 26 82.27 26 78.72 27 72.80 21 73.80
15 India 43 67.29 44 68.77 45 69.70 41 65.83 44 59.50 44 53.90
16 Philippines 46 64.73 50 64.66 41 71.80 42 65.54 41 60.20 42 55.00

Note: Number of participating countries:63 countries (2019, 2018 & 2017); 61 countries (2016 & 2015); 60 countries (2014)

Summary

The table above shows the position of Malaysia compared to other selected countries in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) during 2014-2019. Malaysia remains at 22nd position in 2019 compared to last year, but the score drop 2.63 points to 82.54 . Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC) is the Partner Institute for this report and MESTECC is one of data contributor (Pillar: Basic Infrastructure and Scientific Infrastructure ).

Framework of The Global Innovation Index (GII), 2022

Carta GII 2022

Summary

The chart above shows the position of Malaysia in all criteria measured in the Global Innovation Index (GII) in 2022. In 2022, Malaysia has maintained its ranked 36th out of 132 countries as the previous year. For the innovation input sub-index, Malaysia was ranked 35th and ranked 37th for the innovation output sub-index.

Summary

The graph above shows a comparison of gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) as compared to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for selected countries. The WCY 2019 report shows that Malaysia was ranked 24th out of 63 countries, remains at the same positions as compared to last year with GERD/ GDP value of 1.44 .

Summary

The graph above shows the Business Expenditure on R&D (BERD) relatives to GDP. WCY 2019 reported that Malaysia moved up 2 spot to 26th position out of 63 countries compared to previous performance with BERD / GDP ratio of 0.81%.

Summary

The graph shows a comparison on Full Time Equivalent (FTE) of R&D personnel for selected countries. FTE indicate the period of time used by R&D personnel to conduct R&D activities. In 2019 report, the FTE of Malaysia was 89.2 thousand and moved up 1 spot to be ranked at 20th out of 63 countries.

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