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KEI and KI Indexes (KAM 2008)

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Rank		Country (click on the name to see basic scorecard)		KEI		KI		Economic Incentive Regime		Innovation		Education		ICT


1		Denmark	9.58		9.55		9.66		9.57		9.80		9.28
2	+4	Sweden	9.52		9.63		9.18		9.79		9.40		9.69
3	-1	Finland	9.37		9.33		9.47		9.66		9.78		8.56
4		Netherlands	9.32		9.36		9.18		9.48		9.26		9.36
5		Norway	9.27		9.27		9.25		9.06		9.60		9.16
6	+4	Canada	9.21		9.14		9.42		9.43		9.26		8.74
7		Switzerland	9.15		9.03		9.50		9.89		7.69		9.52
8		United Kingdom	9.09		9.03		9.28		9.18		8.54		9.38
9	-6	United States	9.08		9.05		9.16		9.45		8.77		8.93
10	+1	Australia	9.05		9.17		8.66		8.72		9.64		9.16
11	+4	Ireland	8.92		8.82		9.23		9.04		9.08		8.33
12		Austria	8.89		8.76		9.30		8.90		8.53		8.85
13	+8	Iceland	8.88		8.87		8.92		7.98		9.44		9.18
14	-1	Germany	8.87		8.83		8.99		9.00		8.46		9.04
15	-6	New Zealand	8.87		9.00		8.48		8.65		9.79		8.56
16	-2	Belgium	8.73		8.70		8.82		8.96		9.14		8.02
17	+7	Taiwan, China	8.69		8.80		8.35		9.24		7.91		9.26
18		Luxembourg	8.65		8.40		9.42		8.91		6.66		9.62
19	-2	Japan	8.56		8.84		7.71		9.15		8.71		8.66
20	-4	France	8.47		8.69		7.82		8.61		9.08		8.38
21	+8	Estonia	8.34		8.22		8.68		7.49		8.27		8.90
22	+4	Slovenia	8.25		8.29		8.11		8.31		8.24		8.33
23	-1	Spain	8.24		8.13		8.58		8.14		8.21		8.04
24	-4	Singapore	8.24		7.75		9.71		9.56		5.19		8.50
25	-6	Israel	8.22		8.24		8.16		9.34		6.72		8.64
26	-3	Hong Kong, China	8.20		7.73		9.60		8.64		5.30		9.26
27	-2	Italy	7.86		8.19		6.84		8.04		7.86		8.68
28	+5	Hungary	7.85		7.67		8.39		8.14		7.62		7.25
29	+2	Czech Republic	7.83		7.70		8.23		7.60		8.11		7.39
30	+14	Lithuania	7.68		7.60		7.94		6.59		8.36		7.84
31	-3	Korea, Rep.	7.68		8.38		5.57		8.47		7.97		8.71
32	+11	Latvia	7.64		7.51		8.04		6.40		8.41		7.73
33	-1	Cyprus	7.55		7.47		7.77		7.65		6.45		8.32
34	-7	Portugal	7.52		7.22		8.44		7.43		6.83		7.39
35	-5	Greece	7.38		7.48		7.08		7.63		8.20		6.62
36	+1	Poland	7.38		7.37		7.39		6.92		7.94		7.25
37	-3	Slovak Republic	7.33		7.12		7.99		6.86		6.98		7.51
38	+2	Barbados	7.25		7.78		5.66		7.51		8.40		7.44
39	+6	Croatia	7.19		7.19		7.16		7.54		6.44		7.61
40	-4	Chile	6.92		6.53		8.11		6.81		6.31		6.46
41	-2	Bulgaria	6.80		6.73		7.01		6.43		7.42		6.33
42	+4	United Arab Emirates	6.66		6.57		6.95		6.74		4.78		8.18
43	+14	Romania	6.37		6.20		6.87		5.66		6.30		6.63
44	-3	Uruguay	6.35		6.31		6.49		5.26		7.18		6.48
45	+5	Qatar	6.15		6.20		5.99		5.77		5.29		7.56
46		Dominica	6.07		5.61		7.46		3.76		6.24		6.82
47	-9	Costa Rica	6.06		5.85		6.70		6.24		5.01		6.30
48		Malaysia	6.06		6.02		6.18		6.83		4.14		7.08
49	-14	Bahrain	6.02		5.75		6.84		4.20		5.82		7.22
50	+2	Kuwait	6.01		5.68		7.01		5.05		4.87		7.13
51	+3	Ukraine	5.80		6.38		4.06		5.77		7.91		5.45
52	-5	Trinidad and Tobago	5.64		5.54		5.95		6.02		4.34		6.27
53	+5	Turkey	5.61		5.14		7.02		5.67		4.38		5.38
54	+10	Brazil	5.57		6.00		4.30		6.07		5.84		6.08
55	-6	South Africa	5.55		5.47		5.81		6.92		4.51		4.98
56	+7	Jordan	5.53		5.46		5.77		5.66		5.49		5.21
57	+18	Armenia	5.51		5.44		5.71		6.17		6.32		3.84
58	-16	Argentina	5.49		6.44		2.63		6.85		6.49		5.98
59	-4	Mexico	5.45		5.48		5.38		5.82		4.85		5.77
60	-7	Thailand	5.44		5.41		5.51		5.98		5.27		5.00
61	-5	Russian Federation	5.40		6.69		1.55		6.89		7.09		6.08
62	+10	Oman	5.37		4.72		7.32		4.95		4.30		4.90
63	+5	Macedonia, FYR	5.33		5.23		5.61		4.76		4.87		6.06
64	-2	Mauritius	5.18		4.58		6.95		3.70		4.09		5.96
65	+9	Saudi Arabia	5.15		5.07		5.39		4.04		4.87		6.29
66	-6	Jamaica	5.04		5.40		3.99		5.36		4.10		6.74
67	+10	Moldova	5.04		5.32		4.19		4.39		6.40		5.17
68	+8	Kazakhstan	5.01		5.08		4.82		3.77		7.21		4.25
69	-8	Belarus	4.93		6.39		0.55		5.54		8.00		5.63
70	-4	Lebanon	4.86		4.91		4.70		4.69		4.76		5.27
71	+15	Tunisia	4.73		4.56		5.26		4.58		4.10		5.00
72	-21	Panama	4.69		4.45		5.39		5.45		4.86		3.04
73	-3	Georgia	4.69		5.07		3.54		5.38		5.97		3.85
74	-1	Peru	4.64		4.86		3.98		3.88		5.57		5.12
75	+20	Mongolia	4.50		4.28		5.18		2.06		6.31		4.46
76	-9	Colombia	4.42		4.62		3.83		4.26		4.79		4.80
77	+20	China	4.35		4.46		4.01		5.12		4.11		4.16
78	-19	Guyana	4.31		4.97		2.33		4.47		5.80		4.64
79	-8	Philippines	4.25		4.02		4.95		3.63		4.76		3.66
80	-15	Venezuela, RB	4.23		5.47		0.51		5.73		5.27		5.41
81		Namibia	4.19		3.20		7.14		3.30		2.57		3.74
82	+9	Sri Lanka	4.16		4.07		4.44		4.44		4.91		2.85
83	+10	Albania	4.04		4.08		3.91		3.10		4.94		4.20
84	-1	Egypt, Arab Rep.	4.03		4.19		3.57		4.55		4.35		3.66
85	-7	Botswana	3.96		3.50		5.34		4.34		2.58		3.59
86	+14	Dominican Republic	3.92		3.81		4.24		2.91		4.11		4.42
87	-2	El Salvador	3.91		3.65		4.70		3.19		3.26		4.50
88	-1	Azerbaijan	3.81		3.93		3.42		3.05		5.03		3.73
89	-1	Kyrgyz Rep.	3.74		3.90		3.25		2.70		6.25		2.75
90	-8	Paraguay	3.62		3.87		2.87		3.47		4.20		3.93
91	-12	Ecuador	3.46		4.08		1.58		3.55		3.77		4.93
92		Morocco	3.45		3.33		3.80		3.67		2.00		4.32
93	-13	Bolivia	3.42		3.63		2.78		3.05		4.76		3.09
94	+10	Iran, Islamic Rep.	3.39		4.13		1.18		3.02		3.89		5.48
95	-6	Uzbekistan	3.28		4.03		1.03		3.51		6.17		2.40
96	+12	Algeria	3.25		3.50		2.53		3.48		3.64		3.37
97	-3	Cape Verde	3.24		3.05		3.81		2.25		2.96		3.96
98	-2	Indonesia	3.23		3.19		3.36		3.32		3.42		2.82
99	-1	Honduras	3.21		3.18		3.30		3.30		3.17		3.06
100	+5	India	3.12		2.94		3.67		3.97		2.26		2.59
101	+6	Guatemala	3.11		2.88		3.78		2.47		2.21		3.97
102	+8	Vietnam	3.02		3.08		2.85		2.83		3.32		3.08
103	-19	Swaziland	2.93		3.05		2.56		4.55		1.73		2.88
104	+2	Syrian Arab Republic	2.90		3.34		1.55		3.44		2.91		3.68
105	-3	Nicaragua	2.87		2.64		3.57		1.99		2.93		3.02
106	+7	Kenya	2.82		2.65		3.31		3.87		1.49		2.60
107	-8	Tajikistan	2.79		2.93		2.37		2.33		5.34		1.10
108	+4	Senegal	2.63		2.15		4.07		2.77		0.92		2.75
109	-8	Zimbabwe	2.51		3.25		0.29		4.09		2.38		3.29
110	+7	Ghana	2.50		2.00		3.97		2.08		1.80		2.13
111	+11	Uganda	2.46		1.93		4.04		2.72		1.16		1.92
112	+15	Madagascar	2.37		1.51		4.93		2.54		0.76		1.25
113	+17	Mauritania	2.35		1.83		3.89		1.75		0.94		2.80
114	+9	Tanzania	2.28		1.72		3.98		2.39		1.05		1.70
115	+4	Pakistan	2.24		2.18		2.43		2.75		1.07		2.72
116	-5	Lesotho	2.15		1.99		2.65		2.70		1.73		1.53
117	+1	Benin	2.10		1.80		3.00		2.33		1.14		1.93
118	+6	Nigeria	2.04		2.33		1.16		2.72		1.87		2.41
119	+10	Yemen, Rep.	1.80		1.83		1.72		1.68		1.83		1.99
120	+5	Mali	1.78		1.18		3.58		1.69		0.66		1.19
121	+11	Mozambique	1.71		1.20		3.24		1.86		0.33		1.41
122	+15	Angola	1.70		1.67		1.76		2.44		0.88		1.70
123	+3	Cameroon	1.69		1.85		1.20		2.49		1.36		1.70
124	+4	Burkina Faso	1.64		1.11		3.24		2.15		0.26		0.93
125	-10	Nepal	1.61		1.46		2.06		2.04		1.50		0.84
126	-6	Malawi	1.55		1.17		2.71		2.11		0.87		0.53
127	+9	Lao PDR	1.53		1.68		1.08		1.43		2.01		1.59
128	+5	Bangladesh	1.49		1.63		1.10		1.71		1.52		1.66
129	+2	Myanmar	1.48		1.52		1.35		1.17		2.58		0.82
130	+9	Rwanda	1.34		0.85		2.80		1.47		0.35		0.74
131	+7	Ethiopia	1.18		0.93		1.95		1.57		0.73		0.48
132	-23	Djibouti	1.15		1.14		1.19		1.29		0.49		1.63
133	-12	Eritrea	1.07		1.20		0.68		1.56		0.81		1.22
134		Sierra Leone	0.91		0.92		0.87		1.70		0.67		0.39
		Bosnia and Herzegovina	n/a		n/a		4.24		3.29		n/a		5.33
		Serbia and Montenegro	n/a		n/a		3.46		4.85		n/a		5.59
		Haiti	n/a		n/a		1.29		1.15		n/a		1.57
		Cote d'Ivoire	n/a		n/a		0.57		2.52		n/a		2.30
		Sudan	n/a		n/a		0.61		1.97		n/a		3.84
		Zambia	n/a		n/a		2.97		2.37		n/a		2.03
Regions
1		G7	8.76		8.93		8.24		9.19		8.73		8.89
2		Western Europe	8.72		8.73		8.69		9.23		8.16		8.80
3		East Asia and the Pacific	6.59		6.88		5.71		8.44		5.26		6.94
4	+1	Europe and Central Asia	6.35		6.65		5.44		6.88		6.74		6.33
5	-1	World	5.92		6.17		5.18		8.01		4.16		6.34
6		Middle East and North Africa	5.38		5.63		4.63		7.22		3.69		5.97
7		Latin America	5.07		5.19		4.70		5.94		4.39		5.23
8		Africa	2.80		2.81		2.80		4.31		1.46		2.65
9		South Asia	2.53		2.47		2.72		3.34		1.89		2.17
Income Groups
1		High Income	8.31		8.41		8.03		9.05		7.60		8.58
2		Upper Middle Income	6.21		6.35		5.78		6.76		5.89		6.41
3		Lower Middle Income	4.10		4.33		3.41		4.95		3.61		4.43
4		Low Income	2.08		2.15		1.88		2.63		1.71		2.10

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