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Top 10 Countries in Infocomm Rankings

Data from Jan 2016 to Dec 2020Updated 11 months ago

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)

Summary of the top 10 countries in international infocomm/digital benchmarking reports based on latest available rankings. Reports included are: (i) International Institute for Management Development World Digital Competitiveness Ranking (IMD WDCR); (ii) World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report – Networked Readiness Index (WEF GITR NRI); (iii) International Telecommunication Union ICT Development Index (ITU IDI); (iv) International Institute for Management Development World Competitiveness Yearbook (IMD WCY); (v) World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report (WEF GCR).

Note: WEF GCR ICT Adoption Pillar is a new revision introduced in the 2018 GCR. It was previously called the Technological Readiness pillar. Rankings for WEF GITR NRI are from 2016 and ITU IDI are from 2017.

Data explorer

Top10CountriesinInfocommRankings.csv (121 rows, 3.4 KB)

Rank
Text
Latest year
Year (YYYY)
Report
Text
Country
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
12018imd_wdcrUSA
22018imd_wdcrSingapore
32018imd_wdcrSweden
42018imd_wdcrDenmark
52018imd_wdcrSwitzerland
62018imd_wdcrNorway
72018imd_wdcrFinland
82018imd_wdcrCanada
92018imd_wdcrNetherlands
102018imd_wdcrUnited Kingdom

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
RankrankText--
Latest yearlatest_yearYear (YYYY)--
ReportreportText--
CountrycountryText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_aafdcbb3739798c3506d5eb49b6d6335"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Info-communications Media Development Authority. (2019). Top 10 Countries in Infocomm Rankings (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 29, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_aafdcbb3739798c3506d5eb49b6d6335/view

About this dataset

Contact

info@imda.gov.sg

Created on

12 Feb 2019

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)