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KEI and KI Indexes (KAM 2009)

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


1	+1	Singapore	8.44		8.03		9.68		9.58		5.29		9.22
2	+6	Denmark	9.52		9.49		9.61		9.49		9.78		9.21
3	+1	Hong Kong, China	8.32		7.92		9.54		9.04		5.37		9.33
4	+22	Iceland	8.95		8.76		9.54		8.07		9.41		8.80
5	+15	Norway	9.31		9.25		9.47		9.06		9.60		9.10
6	+16	Canada	9.17		9.08		9.45		9.44		9.26		8.54
7	+4	Luxembourg	8.64		8.37		9.45		9.00		6.61		9.51
8	+7	Sweden	9.51		9.57		9.33		9.76		9.29		9.66
9	-6	Austria	8.91		8.78		9.31		9.00		8.48		8.85
10		Finland	9.37		9.39		9.31		9.67		9.77		8.73
11	+1	Ireland	9.05		8.98		9.26		9.08		9.14		8.71
12	-7	United Kingdom	9.10		9.06		9.24		9.24		8.49		9.45
13	-6	Netherlands	9.35		9.39		9.22		9.45		9.21		9.52
14	-1	Germany	8.96		8.92		9.06		8.94		8.36		9.47
15	-6	United States	9.02		9.02		9.04		9.47		8.74		8.83
16		Belgium	8.80		8.77		8.87		8.93		9.14		8.25
17	-11	Switzerland	9.01		9.09		8.79		9.90		7.68		9.68
18	-17	New Zealand	8.92		8.97		8.79		8.66		9.78		8.46
19	+22	Malta	7.58		7.18		8.78		7.95		5.86		7.74
20	+5	Estonia	8.42		8.31		8.76		7.56		8.32		9.05
21	+8	Chile	7.09		6.53		8.76		6.85		6.48		6.27
22	-5	Australia	8.97		9.08		8.66		8.88		9.69		8.67
23	-4	Spain	8.28		8.18		8.60		8.14		8.33		8.07
24	-6	Portugal	7.61		7.34		8.42		7.41		6.95		7.66
25	+14	Hungary	8.00		7.88		8.35		8.21		7.73		7.70
26	-12	Israel	8.01		7.93		8.24		9.40		6.86		7.54
27	+1	Czech Republic	7.97		7.90		8.17		7.78		8.23		7.70
28	+8	Slovenia	8.15		8.17		8.10		8.31		8.31		7.88
29	+20	Latvia	7.65		7.52		8.03		6.63		8.35		7.58
30	+20	Mauritius	5.48		4.63		8.01		3.63		4.03		6.23
31	+9	Lithuania	7.77		7.70		7.98		6.70		8.40		7.99
32	-9	Japan	8.42		8.63		7.81		9.22		8.67		8.00
33	+9	Slovak Republic	7.47		7.37		7.78		6.89		7.26		7.95
34		Aruba	7.38		7.26		7.74		7.73		7.03		7.01
35	-14	France	8.40		8.64		7.67		8.66		9.02		8.26
36	-5	Cyprus	7.50		7.47		7.60		7.81		6.65		7.95
37	+10	Poland	7.41		7.38		7.48		7.03		8.02		7.09
38	-8	Taiwan, China	8.45		8.79		7.42		9.27		7.97		9.13
39	+28	Croatia	7.28		7.28		7.26		7.67		6.56		7.62
40	+4	Oman	5.36		4.77		7.15		4.94		4.47		4.90
41	+12	Bulgaria	6.99		6.94		7.14		6.43		7.65		6.74
42	+13	Qatar	6.73		6.63		7.05		6.45		5.37		8.06
43	+41	Namibia	4.28		3.37		7.01		3.14		2.65		4.34
44	+1	Turkey	5.55		5.07		6.98		5.83		4.46		4.92
45	+9	Romania	6.43		6.25		6.98		5.74		6.47		6.55
46	-22	Greece	7.39		7.58		6.82		7.57		8.21		6.94
47	-14	United Arab Emirates	6.73		6.72		6.75		6.69		4.90		8.59
48	-14	Bahrain	6.04		5.80		6.75		4.29		5.82		7.30
49	-22	Italy	7.79		8.18		6.62		8.00		7.96		8.59
50	-18	Costa Rica	6.03		5.84		6.60		6.25		5.19		6.07
51	-5	Kuwait	5.85		5.63		6.50		4.98		4.93		6.96
52	+41	Armenia	5.65		5.37		6.48		6.25		6.36		3.52
53	-16	Uruguay	6.49		6.54		6.35		5.37		7.79		6.45
54		Dominica	5.65		5.47		6.19		3.67		6.40		6.34
55	-20	Malaysia	6.07		6.06		6.11		6.82		4.21		7.14
56	-18	Korea, Rep.	7.82		8.43		6.00		8.60		8.09		8.60
57	+2	Jordan	5.54		5.39		5.99		5.59		5.62		4.95
58	+13	Saudi Arabia	5.31		5.10		5.94		3.97		4.89		6.43
59	+6	Barbados	7.16		7.58		5.92		7.63		8.09		7.00
60	+4	Trinidad and Tobago	5.59		5.49		5.88		6.10		4.43		5.95
61	+22	South Africa	5.38		5.33		5.55		6.85		4.68		4.45
62	-6	Botswana	3.88		3.37		5.38		4.06		2.65		3.41
63	+44	Georgia	5.21		5.15		5.36		5.22		6.46		3.78
64	-12	Panama	5.16		5.10		5.35		5.35		4.90		5.06
65	+21	Macedonia, FYR	5.58		5.66		5.34		4.67		5.42		6.88
66	-23	Thailand	5.52		5.66		5.12		5.76		5.58		5.64
67	-7	Mexico	5.33		5.42		5.06		5.82		4.88		5.56
68	+2	El Salvador	4.06		3.74		5.02		3.29		3.37		4.56
69	+22	Mongolia	4.72		4.67		4.86		3.21		6.43		4.37
70	+54	Kazakhstan	5.05		5.17		4.70		3.68		7.07		4.76
71	-3	Sri Lanka	4.17		4.04		4.56		4.13		5.00		2.98
72	+46	Kyrgyz Rep.	4.29		4.23		4.49		2.93		6.35		3.40
73	+6	Peru	4.79		4.88		4.49		3.87		5.61		5.16
74	+58	Madagascar	2.21		1.47		4.45		2.11		1.11		1.18
75	-13	Lebanon	4.81		4.93		4.42		4.53		4.92		5.35
76	+23	Moldova	5.07		5.30		4.38		4.79		6.05		5.08
77	-1	Philippines	4.12		4.03		4.37		3.80		4.69		3.60
78	+17	Cape Verde	3.35		3.01		4.37		2.16		3.03		3.85
79	-10	Brazil	5.66		6.11		4.31		6.19		6.02		6.13
80	+29	Ukraine	6.00		6.58		4.27		5.83		8.15		5.77
81	-15	Colombia	4.84		5.02		4.27		4.48		5.09		5.50
82	+12	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.58		4.68		4.26		3.11		5.70		5.24
83	-1	Uganda	2.36		1.76		4.18		2.33		1.18		1.76
84	-6	Mali	2.06		1.37		4.16		1.79		0.83		1.48
85	-8	Morocco	3.54		3.35		4.12		3.72		1.95		4.37
86	-14	Albania	3.96		3.92		4.09		2.82		4.97		3.96
87	+27	Dominican Republic	3.85		3.77		4.09		2.91		4.39		4.03
88	+10	Tanzania	2.17		1.54		4.05		2.10		1.17		1.36
89	-16	Tunisia	4.42		4.54		4.04		4.65		4.08		4.88
90	-32	Jamaica	4.90		5.19		4.01		5.03		4.13		6.41
91	+45	Serbia	5.74		6.32		4.01		6.15		5.83		6.99
92	+18	Ghana	2.46		1.97		3.93		2.02		1.78		2.12
93	+12	China	4.47		4.66		3.90		5.44		4.20		4.33
94	+17	Senegal	2.57		2.16		3.79		2.85		1.00		2.63
95	-10	Indonesia	3.29		3.17		3.66		3.19		3.59		2.72
96	+21	Mauritania	2.36		1.94		3.64		2.24		0.89		2.68
97	+6	Honduras	3.21		3.09		3.59		3.16		2.97		3.13
98	-9	Egypt, Arab Rep.	4.08		4.24		3.59		4.44		4.35		3.92
99	-7	Burkina Faso	1.71		1.09		3.58		1.78		0.31		1.18
100	-37	Paraguay	4.00		4.15		3.56		3.90		4.25		4.29
101	+5	Guatemala	2.89		2.69		3.50		2.01		2.75		3.31
102	-2	India	3.09		2.95		3.50		4.15		2.21		2.49
103	-6	Nicaragua	2.81		2.60		3.46		2.09		3.09		2.61
104	-17	Fiji	4.20		4.47		3.40		5.03		4.25		4.12
105	-48	Guyana	4.57		4.97		3.34		4.78		5.94		4.21
106	+17	Azerbaijan	3.83		4.05		3.18		3.64		5.01		3.49
107	-19	Malawi	1.69		1.19		3.17		2.00		0.92		0.67
108	-6	Mozambique	1.58		1.08		3.06		1.67		0.30		1.27
109	-61	Bolivia	3.46		3.61		3.01		2.95		4.81		3.08
110	+10	Kenya	2.77		2.69		2.99		3.83		1.83		2.41
111	-37	Zambia	2.12		1.85		2.92		2.02		1.69		1.84
112	+32	Tajikistan	3.22		3.33		2.88		2.01		5.53		2.46
113	-5	Benin	2.05		1.78		2.87		2.73		1.01		1.59
114	+5	Vietnam	3.51		3.74		2.79		2.72		3.66		4.85
115	-64	Argentina	5.57		6.50		2.78		6.89		6.64		5.96
116	+13	Yemen, Rep.	2.20		2.04		2.66		2.67		1.79		1.67
117	-4	Lesotho	2.05		1.89		2.54		2.76		1.76		1.15
118	-57	Swaziland	2.78		2.87		2.51		4.17		1.97		2.45
119	+20	Ethiopia	1.30		0.91		2.48		1.39		0.59		0.75
120	-24	Haiti	n/a		n/a		2.41		1.54		n/a		3.16
121	+7	Algeria	3.22		3.57		2.18		3.59		3.66		3.46
122	-18	Nepal	1.74		1.62		2.11		2.27		1.79		0.80
123	+18	Rwanda	1.14		0.85		2.02		1.22		0.67		0.64
124	-44	Djibouti	1.47		1.30		1.99		1.68		0.88		1.32
125	-50	Ecuador	3.90		4.55		1.94		4.00		4.52		5.12
126	-1	Pakistan	2.34		2.48		1.91		2.88		1.17		3.39
127	-12	Russian Federation	5.55		6.82		1.76		6.88		7.19		6.38
128	+14	Angola	2.00		2.11		1.69		3.62		0.79		1.91
129	-3	Syrian Arab Republic	3.09		3.57		1.65		3.17		3.10		4.43
130		Cambodia	1.56		1.54		1.63		2.07		1.93		0.62
131	-30	Lao PDR	1.94		2.09		1.47		2.00		2.25		2.03
132	-5	Cote d'Ivoire	1.65		1.75		1.37		2.28		1.09		1.87
133	-17	Cuba	4.36		5.37		1.31		5.14		8.36		2.61
134	-3	Bangladesh	1.48		1.55		1.28		1.60		1.53		1.53
135	-2	Sierra Leone	0.96		0.87		1.22		1.47		0.58		0.55
136	-55	Eritrea	1.27		1.29		1.18		2.03		0.71		1.13
137	-16	Belarus	4.93		6.19		1.15		5.79		8.02		4.74
138	+2	Uzbekistan	3.25		3.95		1.13		3.35		6.15		2.35
139	-2	Cameroon	1.71		1.91		1.12		2.65		1.38		1.68
140	-5	Nigeria	1.84		2.12		0.99		2.29		1.83		2.23
141	-7	Iran, Islamic Rep.	3.75		4.67		0.99		4.56		3.80		5.65
142	-30	Guinea	1.07		1.22		0.62		1.51		1.09		1.05
143	-53	Venezuela, RB	4.18		5.41		0.48		5.46		5.33		5.46
144	-1	Sudan	1.78		2.22		0.48		1.86		1.28		3.52
145	-7	Myanmar	1.34		1.69		0.31		1.30		3.06		0.70
146	-24	Zimbabwe	2.25		2.96		0.12		3.55		2.38		2.94
Regions
1	+1	Western Europe	8.76		8.78		8.71		9.27		8.29		8.78
2	-1	G7	8.72		8.91		8.15		9.19		8.75		8.80
3	+4	Europe and Central Asia	6.45		6.69		5.71		6.99		6.62		6.46
4	-1	East Asia and the Pacific	6.41		6.71		5.52		8.49		5.00		6.64
5		All Countries	5.95		6.19		5.21		8.11		4.24		6.22
6		Middle East and North Africa	5.47		5.68		4.86		7.57		3.75		5.71
7	-3	Latin America	5.21		5.37		4.71		5.80		5.05		5.27
8	+1	Africa	2.71		2.72		2.68		4.31		1.38		2.45
9	-1	South Asia	2.58		2.55		2.65		3.29		1.92		2.45
Income Groups
1		High Income	8.23		8.30		8.02		9.02		7.47		8.42
2		Upper Middle Income	5.66		5.85		5.08		6.03		5.63		5.89
3		Lower Middle Income	3.78		4.04		3.01		4.96		3.32		3.85
4		Low Income	2.00		1.98		2.05		2.52		1.61		1.82

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