Singapore maintained its lead in the Global Competitiveness Index for 2020, while the United Arab Emirates advanced Arab countries, and ranked ninth in the world.

Qatar came second in the Arab world after the UAE and the 14th in the world, then the third Saudi Arabia in the Arab world and the 24th in the world, then Jordan ranked fourth in the Arab world and the 58th in the world.

The report measures the performance of the most competitive countries in the world since 1989, and it analyzes 340 sub-indicators to measure different aspects of the competitiveness of the economies of 63 countries in the world