The 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) report reveals that Switzerland, Singapore and the United States continue to lead the world in talent competitiveness, while countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa are seeing a progressive erosion of their talent base. The report confirms that talent issues have become a mainstream concern for firms, nations and cities, with talent performance seen as a critical factor to growth and prosperity.

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 reveals that cities rather than countries are developing stronger roles as talent hubs and will be crucial to reshaping the global talent scene. The top-ranked city this year is Washington, DC, followed by Copenhagen, Oslo, Vienna and Zurich.

For the first time, the 2019 GTCI provides a longitudinal analysis of talent competitiveness based on the results of all GTCI editions since 2013. The main finding is that the gap separating the talent champions from the rest of the global community has been growing. Talent competitiveness is strengthening in groups of countries where it is already comparatively high and weakening in those where it is relatively low.

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 Czech Republic ranks 25th overall, gaining the highest scores for technical skills (rank 22) and the lowest scores for general knowledge skills (rank 32). >> More.

Source: GTCI

>> Read full report and use an interactive tool.

>> A summary in Czech by ihned.cz.

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