Globalization Index - top 50 countries 2022

In the 2022 edition of the globalization index, Switzerland had the highest index score at 90.61.The Netherlands followed behind, with Belgium in third. Overall, globalization declined in 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

About the index

The KOF Index of Globalization aims to measure the rate of globalization in countries around the world. Data used to construct the 2020 edition of the index was from 2019. The index is based on three dimensions, or core sets of indicators: economic, social, and political. Via these three dimensions, the overall index of globalization tries to assess current economic flows, economical restrictions, data on information flows, data on personal contact, and data on cultural proximity within surveyed countries.

Defining globalization

Globalization is defined for this index as the process of creating networks of connections among actors at multi-continental distances, mediated through a variety of flows including people, information and ideas, capital and goods. It is a process that erodes national boundaries, integrates national economies, cultures, technologies and governance and produces complex relations of mutual interdependence.