The UAE continues to shine and harvest the first places in the 2025 global competitiveness race

In the year 2025, the UAE continues to achieve distinguished results in the global competitiveness race, by winning the first positions in many relevant international and regional indicators and reports.

The results achieved by the UAE during the current year embodied the effectiveness and efficiency of the comprehensive development strategy it adopts, the pioneer of its experience in managing government work, the strength and attractiveness of its economy, the security and stability it enjoys, and the characteristic of the quality of life system that it provides for citizens and residents on its soil.

The UAE has reserved its position on the list of the major five in the annual competitiveness report 2025 issued by the Global Competitiveness Center of the International Institute for Administrative Development (IMD), When she scored 96.09 points out of 100, ahead of two positions for the year 2024, and also maintained the first place regionally for the ninth year in a row.

According to the report, the UAE has advanced in the axis of business efficiency with 7 centers, which placed it in the third place globally, and preserved its distinguished performance in the axis of economic performance and government efficiency, to occupy the second and fourth ranks globally, respectively.

The UAE topped 113 global indicators within the report, as it ranked first globally in 22 indicators such as employment, the absence of bureaucracy, the availability of global experiences, digital transformation in companies, investment capital, the transfer of higher education students to the country, the partnership between the public and private sectors, the energy infrastructure, and women in Parliament, ranked second globally in the social cohesion index, the social cohesion index, the social cohesion index, the social cohesion index, the social cohesion index, the index of social cohesion The flexibility of residence laws, the ability of government policy to adapt, and the third globally in the science graduate index, the use of digital tools, technology, and health infrastructure.

The UAE ranked tenth globally in the 2025 global power index, which was announced last February during the annual soft power conference in the British capital “London”, and the value of the state’s national media identity was announced from one trillion US dollars to more than one trillion, two hundred and twenty -three billion dollars for the year 2025.

The UAE ranked first in the world in the national media identity performance index, and the fourth place globally in the chances of future growth, in generosity and giving, and the global sixth in the strength of the national media identity, and the seventh globally in the power and stability of the economy, and the eighth globally in the general index of international influence, and the ninth globally in both international relations, and the influence in the diplomatic circles, technology and innovation, and came in the tenth position in the world in the world Investing in space exploration, and in following the global audience for its affairs.

The UAE has achieved qualitative achievements in the field of gender balance by reaching 13th in the world and maintaining first place regionally in the gender equality index 2025 issued by the United Nations Development Program.

In September, the UAE has achieved a new achievement by entering the list of the 10 best countries in the world in the global talent report issued by the International Institute for Administrative Development in Lausanne for the year 2025, reaching the ninth place in the world ahead of 8 ranks compared to its classification last year.

According to the report, the UAE balance reached 77.86 points, achieving the first ranks in the world in 5 competitive indicators, and within the top ten in 15 competitive indicators at the main axes level, as the UAE ranked first regionally and globally in the axis International competencies, 6 centers from the 2024 classification in the Axis of Investment and the Development of National Talents.

The UAE has maintained its top in the region within the very high human development countries, in the report of the Human Development Index 2025, issued by the United Nations Development Program, advanced in the global ranking with eleven ranks compared to its classification in the report 2021 – 2022.

The UAE ranked 15th in the world among 193 countries included in the report, and the Arab country was the only one in the list of the best 20 countries.

The UAE topped the first rank in the world in health awareness programs, community participation in health policies, and the advancement of the quality of life, according to the “Health Inclusion Index” launched by Halion, in cooperation with “Economist Impact” last July during a discussion session held in Abu Dhabi.

The importance of the “health inclusion index” is highlighted as an international evaluation tool that compares the performance of 40 countries through 58 sub -indicators in the fields of health culture, awareness, inclusion and justice.

The UAE ranked second in the world in the application of the comprehensive health system, and was among the five best health care countries centered around individuals, as it came in the tenth position globally in health culture.

The second edition of the report of the digital transformation in the UAE revealed that the state is issued in important government indications at the global level, as it occupied the first rank in the world in the communications infrastructure index, the institutional framework of the digital government, the digital content index, and the digital knowledge index issued by the United Nations, while it achieved the first position globally in the index of the digital capacity of the government issued by the government issued On the “Oxford Insights”, it ranked third in the government services provision index, and the fourth in the maturity of government digital transformation issued by the World Bank, and the eleventh in each of the digital competitiveness index issued by the International Institute for Administrative Development and the UN digital development index.

The UAE has strengthened its position as one of the most prominent countries in the world, attracting and attracting those wishing to live and work in a safe and stable environment, as it topped the list of the safest countries around the world in the middle of 2025, according to the Global Statistics website “Nomio”.

The UAE scored a safety degree of 85.2 out of 100 points in the report, which depends on several criteria for measuring the level of safety, including crime rates, public safety, quality of security services, in addition to social and economic stability.

At the level of economics and business, the UAE renewed its superiority in many specialized international reports, as it ranked first in the world for the fourth year in a row in the “World Entrepreneurship Report for 2024/2025 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ,GEMAnd, which classified the UAE as the best place for entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises, out of 56 economies that included it for this year.

The UAE won the first place, within the group of high -income countries in 11 major indicators out of 13 indicators, in which the report is based on experts’ evaluation of the institutional frameworks supporting the Entrepreneurial Environment.

According to the Global Investment Report 2025 for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development “Onctad”, the UAE ranked tenth globally as the largest destination for flowing foreign investment received in the world, as the country recorded an unprecedented level in foreign direct investment flows received at a value of 167.6 billion dirhams (45.6 billion US dollars) in 2024.

A report issued by the FDI Intestanis Foundation showed that the UAE assumed the first place in the world in the performance of the new foreign direct investment 2025, in relation to the size of its economy, as the state came second in the world as the most preferred destination for foreign direct investment in terms of expatriate projects.