Digital Competitiveness Ranking
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Rank 2025

34th of 70

Overall Performance

Peer Group Ranking - Asia - Pacific

CHALLENGES IN 2025

  • Advancing a seamless and coordinated regulatory environment to enhance business efficiency.
  • Accelerating digital transformation and AI readiness across industries to unlock productivity gains.
  • Developing a future-ready workforce through continuous upskilling, reskilling and stronger industry alignment.
  • Strengthening operational resilience and value chain integration for sustained competitiveness.

Provided by:
Malaysia Productivity Corporation, Malaysia

Digital COMPETITIVENESS LANDSCAPE for 2025

Knowledge


29th

Technology


34th

Future
readiness


40th

OVERALL DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING AND FACTORS

  2021 2022 2023 2024 2025  
Overall Rank 27 31 33 36 34
Knowledge 22 25 29 34 29
Technology 26 29 27 35 34
Future readiness 29 31 33 36 40

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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