World Competitiveness Yearbook 2018,
International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

• Hong Kong is ranked the second most competitive among 63 economies in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2018.

  Ranking	Economy	Score*
  1	USA	100
  2	Hong Kong	99.2
  3	Singapore	98.6
  4	Netherlands	97.5
  5	Switzerland	97.1

  * on a scale of 0-100, with 100 being the best performance

• The Yearbook measures the competitiveness of a place by using over 300 competitiveness criteria grouped under four main factors, namely Economic Performance, Government Efficiency, Business Efficiency and Infrastructure.
• Hong Kong's ranking of "bribing and corruption" as one of the criteria under the competitiveness factor "Government Efficiency" in 2018 is the 15th.
• Source: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2018