UAE leads Arab region in IMD World Talent Ranking 2022

The UAE was ranked first in the Arab region in the IMD World Talent Ranking (WTR 2022), and 21st globally, advancing two places.

The country was ranked among the top 10 in nearly 30 per cent of the report’s indexes, including 15th as part of Europe, the Middle East and Africa group, topping countries such as France, Portugal, the UK, Spain and Japan.

The UAE is among the best countries in terms of readiness to meet the needs of the labour market for skills and expertise by creating a business-friendly environment that can attract and retain expertise and skilled manpower.

The UAE also secured a place among the top 10 countries in nine indexes, with the readiness factor seeing significant improvement, being ranked 7th globally and first in the Middle East and North Africa.

The UAE topped “Students mobility inbound” and “Collected personal income tax,” indexes, came second in the “Competent senior managers” index and occupied the third slot in the “Foreign highly-skilled personnel.”

The UAE was also ranked 11th globally in the “Quality of life” and made progress in many other indexes in the report.

Data from the 2022 IMD World Talent Ranking (WTR) shows that Switzerland remains the leader among 63 economies in attracting and retaining talent for the sixth consecutive year. It is followed by Sweden, Iceland, Norway and Denmark.

The results of the IMD World Talent Ranking for 2022 are out. This year, economies’ appeal to attracting and retaining local and foreign #talent after the pandemic’s crippling effects on talent’s mobility is the main point of discussion: https://t.co/JcN8A0nR2T #IMDImpact pic.twitter.com/iJhL4g8zHI

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This year’s report measures 64 countries, through three main factors – investment and development, appeal and readiness.