Saudi Arabia, UAE amongst most talent competitive countries in 2019

The 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) report revealed that Saudi Arabia was ranked the 39th in talent competitiveness.

Also in the GCC region, the UAE was ranked the 19th on the index, Qatar the 24th, Bahrain the 40th, Oman the 48th while Kuwait took the 64th position.

Globally, Switzerland continues to lead the world in talent competitiveness.

Singapore and the United States followed, the UK ranked 9th on the Index, while countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa are seeing a progressive erosion of their talent base.

This year’s report has a special focus on entrepreneurial talent - how it is being encouraged, nurtured and developed throughout the world and how this affects the relative competitiveness of different economies.

The report measures levels of global talent competitiveness by looking at 68 variables.

The 2019 index covers 125 national economies and 114 cities (respectively 119 and 90 in 2018) across all groups of income and levels of development.

The report also reveals that cities rather than countries are developing stronger roles as talent hubs and will be crucial to reshaping the global talent scene. This growing importance of cities is due to their greater flexibility and ability to adapt to new trends and patterns. The top-ranked city this year is Washington, DC, followed by Copenhagen, Oslo, Vienna and Zurich.

The 2019 GTCI report is published by INSEAD, in partnership with the Adecco Group and Tata Communications.