The World's Most Innovative Countries

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its 2025 Global Innovation Index. It evaluated innovation levels across 132 economies focusing on a long list of criteria such as human capital, institutions, technology and creative output as well as market and business sophistication, among others.

Switzerland topped the rankings once more this year with a score of 66 out of 100, the 15th time it has been named the world leader in innovation. The United States comes third while Sweden is in second rank.

China is now the world's 10th most innovative nation, up from rank 11 in 2024, 14 in 2020 and 2019 and rank 17 in 2018. China was also named the most innovative upper middle-income country ahead of Malaysia and Turkey, while India (overall rank 38) came first for lower middle-income countries, followed by Vietnam and the Philippines.