Digital Competitiveness Ranking
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Rank 2025

8th of 70

Overall Performance

Peer Group Ranking - Europe - Middle East - Africa

CHALLENGES IN 2025

  • Rent controls are the strictest in the OECD, limiting construction and labour mobility, contributing to overcrowded living and residential segregation.
  • Necessary infrastructure investments are slowed down by planning processes.
  • There is scope to further reduce the labor tax wedge by shifting the tax mix towards property and environmental taxes.

Provided by:
OECD (2026), Foundations for Growth and Competitiveness 2026

Digital COMPETITIVENESS LANDSCAPE for 2025

Knowledge


3rd

Technology


10th

Future
readiness


11th

OVERALL DIGITAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING AND FACTORS

  2021 2022 2023 2024 2025  
Overall Rank 3 3 7 5 8
Knowledge 2 2 5 3 3
Technology 8 5 11 10 10
Future readiness 6 4 8 4 11

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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