Overview performance

With a score of 2.72, China climbs three places to finish 14th amongst the resource and efficiency-driven economies on the Connectivity Scorecard 2011 In 2010, China finished 17th, but with a higher score of 3.14. The rise in the ranking accompanied by a fall in the actual score suggests that the use of additional metrics in the Connectivity Scorecard this year had the effect of creating significantly more inequality in the scores between countries.  In particular, this was true of the “business usage” component where certain countries were very well ahead of the rest of the pack on some of the indicators.

China Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component