IMD World Competitiveness Center

The IMD World Competitiveness Center is delighted to present its IMD World Talent Report 2018, which includes a talent ranking for all countries that are part of the IMD World Competitiveness.The data are gathered from the Center’s extensive database, which encompasses 20 years of competitiveness-related data. In some sections of this report, we present a detailed discussion of the data (at the indicator level) from 2005 to 2018. In the indicator tables, however, we only present the 2018 data. All criteria employed in the development of this report can be accessed through the World Competitiveness Online website. The objective of the IMD World Talent Ranking is to assess the extent to which countries develop, attract and retain talent to sustain the talent pool available for enterprises operating in those economies. While the hard data used in this report have been gathered from various sources (see Appendix), the survey data were obtained from the Center’s executive opinion survey, designed for the World Competitiveness Yearbook.

The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook analyzes and ranks the ability of a country to facilitate an environment in which enterprises can generate sustainable value.