About this site
About GTCI Insights
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GTCI Insights is a reference desk for one question: how do countries compete for talent? It was started for readers who meet a talent-competitiveness ranking in a news story, a policy paper or a company deck and want to know what sits behind the number.
What you will find
15 pages in five sections, built on 39 distinct sources: the index reports themselves, plus publications of the World Economic Forum, the OECD, the ILO and the United Nations, and a few academic and institutional papers where a page needs them.
- How the index works (3 pages) explains what the Global Talent Competitiveness Index counts, how its pillars and sub-indices are built and how a score is assembled.
- Rankings by edition (6) holds the results pages for the 2017, 2021, 2023 and 2025 editions, a table of every edition from 2013 on and the story of who led each one. We track 11 editions, since a rank is meaningless without its year.
- Talent and technology (2) sets the 2017 theme against later evidence on automation and artificial intelligence.
- Skills and mobility (2) covers international migration of skilled workers and the mismatch between skills and jobs.
- Policy and work (2) follows the World Economic Forum's jobs surveys and the ILO's work on the future of work.
Pages appear only when they are written. The navigation lists what exists.
How the pages are written
The editors read the published index reports directly, not summaries of them. A page starts from the table or paragraph that holds the figure, copies the number exactly, and names the edition or release year next to it. Where two editions differ because the model changed, the page flags the break instead of drawing a trend line across it.
Pages are signed by the editors as a group, because the work is checked rather than authored by one voice. Anyone who wants to know how a statement was checked can read the editorial policy; anyone who finds a mistake can use the contact page, and the fix goes into the corrections log.
What this site does not do
It does not sell rankings, consulting or data, run advertising or take affiliate fees. It does not give advice on careers, study or migration to individuals, and it does not publish its own country ranking. The numbers are the reports' numbers; the explanation, the comparisons between editions and the judgement about what a figure can bear are ours.
Using the pages
Quote a figure together with its edition year and cite the source listed at the foot of the page, not this site, when the source is a report. Each page shows when it was last checked; the changes page lists what was added or revised and when.