Global Competetiveness Report
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Regional Spread<br />
Resource Intensity<br />
Regional spread<br />
Central America and Western Africa top the<br />
resource intensity ranking, a small margin<br />
before South America. The first two regions<br />
consist mainly of less developed nations in<br />
economic terms or GDP, while South America<br />
consists of fairly and lesser developed nations.<br />
Western Europe (excluding Scandinavia and<br />
Southern Europe) made the fourth spot –<br />
indicating that the methodology applied<br />
indeed is capable of incorporating both<br />
absolute and economic relative resource<br />
intensity. If only absolute intensity, i.e. per<br />
capita consumption of resources, was<br />
incorporated, Westerns Europe most likely<br />
would be found on the bottom of the ranking.<br />
Scandinavia is amongst the lower ranks,<br />
possibly due to the abundant availability of<br />
energy (hydro-energy, oil) that allowed for<br />
efficiency management to be considered a<br />
somewhat marginal consideration in the past.<br />
Average Deviation<br />
52% of all countries are above the World<br />
average (i.e. 48% are below average),<br />
representing a fairly even distribution. The<br />
lowest negative deviation is close to -70%,<br />
whereas the highest deviation is less than<br />
+40%. The equal spread and the diverse<br />
allotment of countries of similar natural<br />
characteristics and regions indicate that<br />
there is no direct correlation between<br />
geography, location and climate to resource<br />
intensity, or economic development level to<br />
natural resource intensity and efficiency. The<br />
only manifestation of a visible correlation<br />
seems to be a correlation of abundant local<br />
availability of resources with low efficiency. In<br />
the absence of rich local resources,<br />
efficiency and intensity are the result of<br />
economic activities, policies, and<br />
investments.<br />
Central America<br />
Western Africa<br />
South America<br />
North-western Europe<br />
Southern Africa<br />
Eastern Africa<br />
Central Asia<br />
Southern Europe<br />
South-east Asia<br />
Eastern Europe<br />
Northern Africa<br />
North America<br />
Scandinavia<br />
Australia & New Zealand<br />
North-east Asia<br />
Middle East<br />
0 10 20 30 40 50 60<br />
-70% -50% -30% -10% 10% 30% 50%<br />
Burma<br />
Nigeria<br />
Equatorial Guinea<br />
Mozambique<br />
Madagascar<br />
Spain<br />
Romania<br />
Uzbekistan<br />
Malawi<br />
Lithuania<br />
Slovenia<br />
South Sudan<br />
Mauritania<br />
Ukraine<br />
Syria<br />
Turkmenistan<br />
Macedonia<br />
Algeria<br />
Bosnia and Herzegovina<br />
Trinidad and Tobago<br />
The <strong>Global</strong> Sustainable Competitiveness Index<br />
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