Hong Kong rankings
Hong Kong has achieved impressive progress as Asia’s world city, which is reflected in various international rankings covering a range of areas.
Economy and business
- World’s freest economy: World No.1 since 1996 (Canada-based Fraser Institute)
- World No.1 for investment environment; Asia-Pacific No.1 and World No.2 for enterprise conditions (Legatum Institute: Legatum Prosperity Index 2023)
- World No.2 for emerging ecosystem (US-based Startup Genome: The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2022)
Finance
- Leading investment hub: World No.3 and World No.7 for foreign direct investment inflows and outflows respectively in 2021 (UNCTAD: World Investment Report 2022)
- World’s 7th largest and Asia’s 4th largest stock market by market capitalization among exchanges at end-2022 (US$4,568 billion)
- World’s largest offshore RMB hub with total deposits of RMB 981.7 billion (end-December 2022)
Innovation and Technology
- Asia-Pacific’s No.3 and World No.9 for digital competitiveness (IMD: World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2022)
- World No.4 and Asia-Pacific No.2 data center market (Cushman & Wakefield: 2023 Global Data Center Market Comparison)
- World No.1 lowest taxed data center market (Cushman & Wakefield: 2023 Global Data Center Market Comparison)
Transport and infrastructure
- Airport of the Year 2022 (Air Cargo Week: World Air Cargo Awards 2022)
- World No.4 international maritime center (Xinhua and Baltic Exchange: 2022 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index)
- World No.1 public transit system (Oliver Wyman Forum in partnership with University of California, Berkeley: Urban Mobility Readiness Index 2022)
Education and talent
- 5 universities in World Top 100: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023/Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2023: HKU (31st/21st), CUHK (45th/38th), HKUST (58th/40th), PolyU (79th/65th) and CityU (99th/54th)
- World and Asia No.1 hotel and tourism school: PolyU's School of Hotel and Tourism Management ranked top for the sixth consecutive year (ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022); and 1st in Asia (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022).
- World No. 2 and Asia No.1 for dentistry: HKU’s Faculty of Dentistry ranked 2nd in the world and 1st in Asia in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022.
Safety, security, rule of law
- Asia No.2 and World No.13 for Control of Corruption, Asia No.3 for Rule of Law and Regulatory Quality (The World Bank Group: Worldwide Governance Indicators 2022)
- World No.6 for order and security and World No.9 for absence of corruption (2022 World Justice Project Rule of Law Index)
- Asia-Pacific No.2 and World No.12 least corrupt place among 180 countries/territories (Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index 2022)
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