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| World Competitiveness Scoreboard |
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| Country | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 |
| USA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Singapore | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Finland | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Luxembourg | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 6 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| Ireland | 7 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 10 |
| Sweden | 8 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 19 |
| Canada | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 |
| Switzerland | 10 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 12 |
| Australia | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 15 |
| Germany | 12 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 16 |
| Iceland | 13 | 9 | 13 | 18 | 21 |
| Austria | 14 | 15 | 18 | 24 | 20 |
| Denmark | 15 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 13 |
| Israel | 16 | 21 | 22 | 25 | 25 |
| Belgium | 17 | 19 | 21 | 23 | 23 |
| Taiwan | 18 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 18 |
| U.K. | 19 | 16 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
| Norway | 20 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 5 |
| New Zealand | 21 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 11 |
| Estonia | 22 | - | - | - | - |
| Spain | 23 | 23 | 20 | 26 | 26 |
| Chile | 24 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 24 |
| France | 25 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 22 |
| Japan | 26 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 17 |
| Hungary | 27 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 37 |
| Korea | 28 | 28 | 41 | 36 | 30 |
| Malaysia | 29 | 27 | 28 | 19 | 14 |
| Greece | 30 | 34 | 32 | 33 | 36 |
| Brazil | 31 | 31 | 34 | 35 | 34 |
| Italy | 32 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 39 |
| China | 33 | 30 | 29 | 21 | 27 |
| Portugal | 34 | 29 | 27 | 29 | 32 |
| Czech Rep. | 35 | 40 | 37 | 37 | 33 |
| Mexico | 36 | 33 | 35 | 34 | 40 |
| Slovak Rep. | 37 | - | - | - | - |
| Thailand | 38 | 35 | 36 | 41 | 31 |
| Slovenia | 39 | 36 | 39 | - | - |
| Philippines | 40 | 37 | 31 | 32 | 29 |
| India | 41 | 39 | 42 | 38 | 41 |
| South Africa | 42 | 43 | 43 | 42 | 42 |
| Argentina | 43 | 41 | 33 | 30 | 28 |
| Turkey | 44 | 42 | 38 | 39 | 35 |
| Russia | 45 | 47 | 46 | 43 | 46 |
| Colombia | 46 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Poland | 47 | 38 | 40 | 44 | 43 |
| Venezuela | 48 | 46 | 44 | 46 | 44 |
| Indonesia | 49 | 44 | 47 | 40 | 38 |