Vietnam ranks 44th out of 139 countries with the highest innovation index.

On the evening of September 16, at 6:30 p.m. Vietnam time, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a ceremony to announce the GII 2025 Report in Geneva. Accordingly, Vietnam was 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 02 pillars: Knowledge and technology products, Creative products).

Mr. Daren Tang, Director General of WIPO, spoke at the event.

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. In addition, 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 R&D expenditure/GDP. In the ASEAN region, Vietnam surpasses Thailand, ranking 3rd after Singapore and Malaysia.

In the GII 2025 Report of WIPO, Vietnam was recognized by WIPO as one of the 9 middle-income countries that improved their rankings the fastest since 2013 (including China, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, Albania and Iran). Vietnam is also one of 2 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 consistently had higher innovation outcomes than its development level, demonstrating its efficiency in converting input resources into innovative outputs. Vietnam is one of three countries (China, Vietnam, Ethiopia) with the fastest growth in labor productivity in the 2014-2024 period.

Every year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) publishes the Global Innovation Index (GII). This is a prestigious toolkit for assessing national innovation capacity in the world, reflecting the socio-economic development model based on science , technology and innovation of countries. Thereby, countries can see the overall picture as well as their strengths and weaknesses.

Ranking of countries with innovation index growth year by year.

For this reason, the GII is currently used by many governments as an important reference tool for state management of Science, Technology and Innovation, as well as for developing science, technology and innovation policies (India, China, Philippines, Columbia, Brazil, etc.). According to the 2024 WIPO survey results, 77% of member states (an increase of more than 20% compared to the 2022 survey results) use GII results in developing strategies and policies on science, technology and innovation.

In recent times, the Government has used this index as one of the important management 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 position (in 2016) to 44th in 2024/133 countries and economies.

Some notable results of Vietnam's GII 2025

In 2025, there will be 3 indexes that Vietnam will continue to lead the world in, which are index 5.3.2. High-tech imports, 6.3.3. High-tech exports and index 7.2.4. Creative goods exports (this is the first time Vietnam has led the world in this index). There will be 03 indexes in the group of 10 leading countries in the world: 6.2.1. Labor productivity growth rate (ranked 4th); 7.3.3. Number of smartphone applications created (ranked 7th) and 5.1.4. R&D expenditure covered by enterprises/total R&D expenditure (ranked 8th).

Regarding innovation inputs, Vietnam's innovation input indices in GII 2025 have concentrated improvements in Pillar 1. Institutions, Pillar 4. Market development level and Pillar 5. Enterprise development level. Regarding innovation outputs, both Pillar 6. Knowledge and creative products and Pillar 7. Creative products have improved indices.

Some indicators have not improved or are still at low rankings and need further attention: Regarding Institutions, the indicators that need further attention and improvement are 1.2.1. Quality of legal regulations (ranked 95), 1.2.2. Effectiveness of law enforcement (ranked 67).

Regarding Education and Higher Education, index 2.1.1. Education expenditure, % of GDP decreased by 10 places, ranked 116th, index 2.1.5. Secondary school student/teacher ratio decreased by 5 places, ranked 107th; In addition, index 2.2.3. Percentage of foreign students studying in the country continued to decrease by 3 places, ranked 108th, showing that universities in Vietnam today still have not attracted many international students to study and research....

Regarding Creative Products, the creative industry has shown positive signs in recent years, but some low-ranking indicators need to be improved, including index 7.2.1. Exports of cultural and creative services (% of total trade) ranked 95th, down 14 places; index 7.2.2. National feature films produced/1 million people aged 15-69 ranked 87th, down 11 places.

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