Philippines lags in national technological strength list
The Philippines fell by two notches to 63rd out of 65 countries in the 2023 edition of by international magazine . The report ranks a country鈥檚 technological strength across four metrics: internet users as a percentage of a country鈥檚 population; LTE users as a percentage of the population; IMD World Competitiveness Center鈥檚 Digital Competitiveness Score; and share of a country鈥檚 research and development spending to its economic output. Among 11 East and Southeast Asian countries included in the report, the Philippines ranked the lowest with a composite score of -5.77.
