IMD WORLD COMPETITIVENESS YEARBOOK 2003
FACTOR RANKINGS (1999 - 2003) - GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
Group I : Population greater than 20 million
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Argentina	16	20	20	26	29
Australia	1	1	1	2	1
Brazil	15	14	17	14	22
Canada	3	3	3	3	4
China Mainland	10	11	11	10	9
Colombia	23	24	21	20	11
France	12	13	18	19	14
Germany	8	8	4	8	12
India	17	16	15	16	19
Indonesia	25	21	24	23	27
Italy	21	22	19	18	23
Japan	13	12	14	17	17
Korea	22	17	12	11	18
Maharashtra (India)	0	0	0	0	20
Malaysia	6	7	9	4	3
Mexico	14	9	8	13	16
Philippines	11	18	16	15	21
Poland	24	23	26	24	28
Romania	0	0	0	0	24
Russia	26	26	25	21	25
Sao Paulo (Brazil)	0	0	0	0	13
South Africa	19	15	13	12	15
Spain	2	5	5	6	7
Taiwan	5	6	7	9	6
Thailand	9	10	10	7	5
Turkey	18	19	22	22	26
United Kingdom	7	4	6	5	8
Usa	4	2	2	1	2
Venezuela	20	25	23	25	30
Zhejiang (China)	0	0	0	0	10
Group II : Population less than 20 million
Austria	10	13	7	9	12
Bavaria (Germany)	0	0	0	0	25
Belgium	17	16	17	19	20
Catalonia (Spain)	0	0	0	0	18
Chile	11	12	13	12	11
Czech Republic	20	20	22	17	19
Denmark	9	8	9	5	5
Estonia	0	0	12	8	9
Finland	4	3	4	3	1
Greece	19	19	20	22	28
Hong Kong	1	2	2	4	3
Hungary	16	17	18	18	22
Iceland	13	10	10	15	7
Ile-de-France (France)	0	0	0	0	23
Ireland	5	5	6	7	10
Israel	18	18	16	20	27
Jordan	0	0	0	0	17
Lombardy (Italy)	0	0	0	0	26
Luxembourg	3	6	3	2	4
Netherlands	6	4	8	11	15
New Zealand	8	11	14	10	8
Norway	12	9	15	14	14
Portugal	14	15	19	16	16
Rhone-Alps (France)	0	0	0	0	21
Singapore	2	1	1	1	2
Slovak Republic	0	0	21	21	24
Slovenia	21	21	23	23	29
Sweden	15	14	11	13	13
Switzerland	7	7	5	6	6