What is not sustainable is not competitive, and what is not competitive is not sustainable.
The most comprehensive measurement of country competitiveness and sustainability. Based on 239 quantitative indicators from trusted international organizations, providing bias-free evaluation of country performance.
The GSCI is now officially used by governments to benchmark their progress on the path to sustainability and competitiveness, providing a comprehensive alternative to GDP for tracking ESG country performance.
GDP ("Gross Domestic Product") – the most widely used metric to measure country "success" – has serious limitations. It only counts what is exchanged in the market against money, but excludes everything else: environment, health, education, security, governance, and quality of living.
The GSCI serves as a comprehensive alternative to GDP, assessing country-specific and issue-specific risks for operators and investors, and verifying progress for countries on their path to sustainability and competitiveness.
Sustainable competitiveness is the ability to generate and sustain inclusive wealth without diminishing the future capability of sustaining or increasing current wealth levels.
— Core Definition
The indicators of the GSCI are grouped into 6 sub-indexes: Natural Capital, Resource Efficiency & Intensity, Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, Economic Sustainability, and Governance Capital. Taken together, these pillars define a national performance and future outlook.
The given natural environment, including the availability of resources, and the level of the depletion of those resources
The efficiency of using available resources as a measurement of operational competitiveness in a resource-constraint World
Health, security, freedom, equality and life satisfaction within a country
The capability to generate wealth and jobs through innovation and value-added industries in the globalised markets
Economic Sustainability & Competitiveness reflects the ability to generate wealth through sustainable economic development
Results of core state areas and investments – infrastructure, market and employment structure, the provision of a framework for sustained and sustainable wealth generation
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Scandinavia keeps dominating the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index: The Index is topped by Finland, followed by Sweden and Denmark, with Iceland ranked 8th and Norway 9th
Northern European countries dominate GSCI rankings: Japan is the only non-European nation in the top 20, Korea follows on 23. All Baltic countries are also listed in the top 20
Asian nations (China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore) lead the Intellectual Capital Index – the basis of future competitiveness in a World dominated by technology
The Social Capital Index ranking is headed by Northern European (Scandinavian) countries, the result of very high growth combined with a commonly accepted social consensus
China tops the Intellectual Capital Index for the first time. However, the overall ranking (34) is evidence of underlying problems in Natural Capital and Resource Efficiency - albeit with encouraging signs of efficiency improvements
The USA is ranked 42, performing comparatively poor in both resource efficiency and social capital, reflecting a decline that could potentially undermine the global status of the US in the future
Countries in Africa show a combination of poor scores across several dimensions which are difficult to overcome, minimising the potential for real improvements in the short-term
The global gap to a perfect sustainable competitive World is 56.1. We are far from an inclusive and circular society that lives in balance with the environment
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