Vietnam ranks 44/139 countries and global economies in innovation index

In 2025, Vietnam will continue to lead the world in three indicators: high-tech import, high-tech export, and creative goods export (this is the first time Vietnam has led the world in this indicator).

According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, on the evening of September 16, in Geneva (Switzerland), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced the Global Innovation Index 2025 (GII 2025).

Accordingly, Vietnam is ranked 44/139 countries and economies , maintaining its ranking in 2024. Vietnam continues to improve its innovation input ranking by 3 places compared to 2023, from 53rd to 50th (innovation input includes 5 pillars: institutions, human resources and research, infrastructure, market development level, business development level). Innovation output still has a better ranking than innovation input, although the ranking decreased by 1 place compared to 2024, from 36th to 37th (innovation output includes 2 pillars: knowledge and technology products, creative products).

Vietnam maintains its 2nd position in the group of lower middle-income countries. The lower middle-income country ranked above Vietnam is India at 38th. There are 3 upper middle-income countries ranked above Vietnam (China ranked 10th, Malaysia ranked 34th, Türkiye ranked 43rd), the rest of the countries ranked above Vietnam are all industrialized countries, in the high-income group, with a high ratio of spending on research and development/GDP. In the ASEAN region, Vietnam surpasses Thailand, ranking 3rd after Singapore and Malaysia.

In the WIPO GII 2025 Report, Vietnam was recognized by WIPO as one of the 9 middle-income countries with the fastest improvement in rankings since 2013 (along with China, India, Turkey, Philippines, Indonesia, Morocco, Albania and Iran).

Vietnam is also one of two countries that hold the record of having outstanding achievements compared to the level of development for 15 consecutive years (including India and Vietnam). For 15 consecutive years, Vietnam has always had higher innovation results compared to the level of development, showing the efficiency in converting input resources into innovation outputs. Vietnam is one of three countries (China, Vietnam, Ethiopia) with the fastest growth rate in labor productivity in the period 2014-2024.

According to the GII 2025 Report, in 2025, there are 3 indexes that Vietnam continues to lead the world in: the index of high-tech imports, high-tech exports and creative goods exports (this is the first time Vietnam has led the world in this index). Along with that, there are 3 indexes in the group of 10 leading countries in the world: labor productivity growth rate (ranked 4th), the number of smartphone applications created (ranked 7th) and the portion of research and development expenditure covered by enterprises/total research and development expenditure (ranked 8th).

The Ministry of Science and Technology said that the annual GII Report of WIPO is a prestigious tool for assessing national innovation capacity in the world, reflecting the socio-economic development model based on science, technology and innovation of countries. Thereby, countries see the overall picture as well as their strengths and weaknesses. For this reason, the GII is currently used by many governments as an important reference tool for state management of science, technology and innovation.

According to WIPO's 2024 survey results, 77% of member states (an increase of more than 20% compared to the 2022 survey results) use GII results in building strategies and policies on science, technology and innovation.

In recent times, the Vietnamese Government has used this index as one of the important management and administration tools and has assigned ministries, agencies and localities to jointly take responsibility for improving the index. In particular, the Ministry of Science and Technology has been assigned to be the focal point for monitoring and general coordination. From 2017 to present, Vietnam's GII index has continuously improved, rising from 59th (in 2016) to 44th (in 2024)/133 countries and economies.

TRAN BINH

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/viet-nam-xep-hang-44139-quoc-gia-nen-kinh-te-toan-cau-ve-chi-so-doi-moi-sang-tao-post813313.html