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World Intellectual Property Organization

Global Innovation Index

An economy's capacity to innovate, scored across roughly 80 indicators grouped into inputs (institutions, human capital, infrastructure, market and business sophistication) and outputs (knowledge, technology and creative production).

All world rankings
India’s rank
38 / 139
GII 2025
Ahead of
73%
of the field
GII score
38.2
Published 16 September 2025
India’s rank, 20112025best 38, worst 81
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Global Innovation Index: 2011 ranked 62 of 125; 2012 ranked 64 of 141; 2013 ranked 66 of 142; 2014 ranked 76 of 143; 2015 ranked 81 of 141; 2016 ranked 66 of 128; 2017 ranked 60 of 127; 2018 ranked 57 of 126; 2019 ranked 52 of 129; 2020 ranked 48 of 131; 2021 ranked 46 of 132; 2022 ranked 40 of 132; 2023 ranked 40 of 132; 2024 ranked 39 of 133; 2025 ranked 38 of 139.

Coverage

125-143 economies, fifteen editions from 2011. Comparator countries and scores from 2022, the range WIPO publishes as an annex.

Limitations

WIPO revises indicators and the economy set between editions, and the field has moved between 126 and 143 economies, so a rank move can reflect a change in who is covered rather than in India. Editions before 2022 carry a rank without a score. Several inputs are themselves other indexes rather than direct measurements.

Every stored edition

India’s rank and score in the Global Innovation Index by edition year
YearRankFieldGII score
20253813938.2
20243913338.31
20234013238.11
20224013236.57
202146132
202048131
201952129
201857126
201760127
201666128
201581141
201476143
201366142
201264141
201162125
Edition published
16 September 2025

Data provenance

Edition published
16 September 2025
Coverage
125-143 economies, fifteen editions from 2011. Comparator countries and scores from 2022, the range WIPO publishes as an annex.
Limitations
WIPO revises indicators and the economy set between editions, and the field has moved between 126 and 143 economies, so a rank move can reflect a change in who is covered rather than in India. Editions before 2022 carry a rank without a score. Several inputs are themselves other indexes rather than direct measurements.
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