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Winning in a polycentric world:
globalization and the changing world of business The Globalization Index 2010 summary

The Globalization Index was created to measure the extent to which the 60 largest countries (by GDP) are connecting to the rest of the world. This table provides a breakdown by country (or, where applicable, territory).

Overall   Country 2010 composite   1995 composite  
1 Hong Kong (SAR)   7.48 5.45
2 Ireland 7.43 4.93
3 Singapore 6.78 5.91
4 Denmark 5.93 4.20
5 Switzerland 5.86 3.99
6 Belguim 5.82 4.50
7 Sweden 5.90 4.04
8 Netherlands 5.59 4.57
9 Hungary 5.35 4.39
10 Finland 5.29 3.85
11 Slovakia 5.16 3.25
12 Taiwan 5.15 3.90
13 Israel 5.11 4.71
14 Austria 5.10 4.38
15 United Kingdom 5.00 4.14
16 Germany 4.89 3.78
17 Canada 4.89 4.07
18 France 4.71 3.80
19 Norway 4.67 3.50
20 Czech Republic 4.67 3.47
21 Spain 4.61 3.65
22 Portugal 4.49 4.15
23 Bulgaria 4.48 3.56
24 New Zealand 4.48 3.67
25 Poland 4.48 3.01
26 Australia 4.43 3.66
27 Malaysia 4.43 3.88
28 United States 4.41 3.57
29 Chile 4.32 3.51
30 Romania 4.32 2.65
31 Italy 4.32 3.40
32 Saudi Arabia 4.21 3.30
33 South Korea 4.17 2.81
34 Vietnam 4.15 2.73
35 Greece 4.08 3.79
36 Mexico 3.81 3.03
37 Thailand 3.77 2.99
38 Philippines 3.74 2.90
39 China 3.63 2.69
40 Colombia 3.61 2.94
41 Peru 3.58 2.93
42 Japan 3.57 2.73
43 Ukraine 3.49 2.42
44 Turkey 3.43 2.98
45 Egypt 3.39 3.16
46 Brazil 3.37 2.77
47 Sri Lanka 3.36 3.27
48 Eucador 3.28 2.69
49 Argentina 3.18 3.15
50 Pakistan 3.14 2.69
51 Russia 3.13 2.55
52 Azerbaijan 3.11 3.07
53 Kazakhstan 3.09 2.49
54 South Africa 3.04 2.69
55 Nigeria 3.03 2.57
56 Indonesia 3.00 2.70
57 India 2.96 2.60
58 Venezuela 2.85 2.62
59 Algeria 2.62 2.51
60 Iran 2.27 1.87

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