Recently the NHK News on-line reported the following:
日本の国際競争力９位に後退 政府債務や女性社会進出遅れで
9月27日 7時38分
世界の国別の競争力に関する調査で、日本は多額の政府債務や女性の社会進出の遅れなどから、去年に続いて順位を下げ９位に後退しました。
「ダボス会議」で知られる「世界経済フォーラム」は、毎年、経済やインフラ、それに教育水準などの観点から各国の競争力を順位づけていて、２７日、ことしの報告書を発表しました。
それによりますと、調査対象となった１３７の国と地域のうち、日本の総合評価は９位で、去年の８位から２年連続で順位を下げました。調査の中で、日本はインフラの質や教育水準が高く、技術革新も進んでいると評価された一方で、「政府債務」の項目で最下位だったのをはじめ、「女性の社会進出」も７７位と低い水準にとどまっています。
世界各国ではスイスが技術の革新力や教育水準などがすぐれているとして９年連続で１位となったほか、アメリカが２位、シンガポールが３位となっています。またアジア地域では、香港が日本を抜いて６位だったほか、韓国が２６位、中国が２７位などとなっています。
My translation
In an investigation about competitive power among countries
in the world, Japan due to its large amount of government debts and delays in
female’s social advancement, continued with its dropping trend last year, stood
at the 9th place in ranking in an investigation about competitive
power among countries in the world.
The "World Economic Forum" often known as the “Davos
meeting" each year ranked the order of each country based on economy and competitive power, and also on the
infrastructure from the angle of the standard of education etc., released this
year's report on the 27th.
According to that report, among the 137 countries and areas which
became investigation objects, Japan’s comprehensive assessment ranking was 9th
which was a continuing of a two-year drop from last year's 8. Regarding Japan
in this survey, while the quality of infrastructure and standard of education
were high, on assessments regarding advancing technical innovation, the item on
"government debt" reached the lowest point for the first time. Also, "female social advancement" was
staying at a low level of 77.
Switzerland’s technological innovation and education level were
excellent among all the countries and stood at first continuously for 9 years; for
other countries United States was at second and Singapore at third. In Asia region Hong
Kong replaced Japan to stand at 6, Korea stood at 26 while China at 27.
It is interesting to note that in this
ranking, Hong Kong is doing better than Japan.
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