The UAE leads the region in the digital competitiveness index

The United Arab Emirates ranked first in the Arab world and among the countries of the region as one of the best competitive countries in the world in the Digital Competitiveness Index for 2020, issued by the Global Competitiveness Center, affiliated to the International Institute for Administrative Development, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The UAE ranked 14th in the world in the overall ranking, ahead of countries such as Australia, China, Germany, France, Japan and Belgium, which is considered a remarkable achievement during the period that the repercussions of "Covid-19" are affecting the world's major economies.

In this year's report, the UAE maintained its first place in the Arab world in all three main axes of the report, which is the “technology” axis, with which the country achieved fourth place globally, and the 11th globally in the “readiness for the future” axis, and it jumped 4 ranks in the “knowledge axis” ».

The Global Digital Competitiveness Index for this year monitors the performance of 63 countries through 52 sub-indicators, which converge in 9 sub-axes to collectively form the three main axes of the report.

The Minister of Economy, Abdullah bin Touq Al-Marry, affirmed that “the UAE’s achievement of the first place globally in the (Public Private Partnership Index) is an affirmation of the UAE government's firm confidence in the importance of the partnership between the public and private sectors, which is based on the wise leadership's directives to enhance the role of the sector The private sector is one of the important pillars of the state’s economy, and working on adopting open government policies that enhance the economic performance of the private sector.

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