IMD’s Digital Competitiveness Rankings: Uae’s Rank From 2018-2022
The United Arab Emirates has consistently been ranked as a country in the top 20 on the IMD’s Digital Competitiveness Rankings for the past five years.
In 2021, the UAE broke into the Top 10 list, though it slipped a few places to 13th in 2022.
The UAE, alongside South Korea and China, have been the overall top gainers in the World Digital Competitiveness rankings in 2021, highlighting the UAE’s commitment to continuous improvement and development of its knowledge intensive economy that is able to explore, adopt and produce digital technologies at scale.
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