Digital Competitiveness Ranking
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Rank 2025

4th of 70

Overall Performance

Peer Group Ranking - Asia - Pacific

CHALLENGES IN 2025

  • Navigating intensifying geopolitical tensions, and shifting global trade and investment flows to capture emerging opportunities.
  • Leveraging Hong Kong’s unique role as a “super connector”.
  • Harnessing innovation to accelerate AI‑driven industrial transformation.
  • Developing the Northern Metropolis to expand the city’s economic capacity and position it as a strategic platform for deeper Greater Bay Area integration.
  • Addressing the aging population by enhancing workforce vitality and productivity.

Provided by:
Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Digital COMPETITIVENESS LANDSCAPE for 2025

Knowledge


5th

Technology


3rd

Future
readiness


10th

OVERALL DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING AND FACTORS

  2021 2022 2023 2024 2025  
Overall Rank 2 9 10 7 4
Knowledge 5 7 6 5 5
Technology 1 2 2 3 3
Future readiness 10 18 17 15 10

Digital Evolution

The following criteria highlight the 15 biggest Improvements and Declines in the performance of the economy.They are determined by the largest percentage change in the value of each criterion from one year to the next.

For aggregated criteria we only show the simple average– these averages are not repeated elsewhere.

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