# Industry and Overall Rankings

## How does an industry ranking differ from the overall ranking? {#how-does-an-industry-ranking-differ-from-the-overall-ranking}

An industry ranking measures a country's competitiveness for one commodity family — a related group of products such as Polymers — by combining the eight Base Pillars (shared structural factors common to all manufacturing) with the six Industry-Specific pillars evaluated for that family. The report publishes seven industry rankings, one per commodity family. The overall ranking is the aggregated picture across all industries, consolidating the Base and Industry-Specific layers into a single competitiveness view. In short, an industry ranking is family-specific, while the overall ranking summarizes performance across families.

## Can a country lead one industry and lag in another? {#can-a-country-lead-one-industry-and-lag-in-another}

Yes. The Base Pillars are shared across every industry, but the Industry-Specific pillars — commodity prices, margins, production, trade, tariffs, and market size — vary by commodity family. A country with abundant, low-cost feedstock for one chemical may rank near the top of that industry, yet sit much lower in another family where its domestic demand is small or its trade position weak. These differences in family-level conditions, not the shared structural base, drive the divergence.

## How is the overall competitiveness view assembled? {#how-is-the-overall-competitiveness-view-assembled}

Pillar scores roll up in four equal-weight averaging stages, all on the same 0-to-100, mean-50 scale. First, the eight Base Pillars average — each contributing equally — into a single Base Pillars Score, computed once and shared across all industries because those factors are structural. Second, for each commodity family the six Industry-Specific pillars average, equally, into an Industry Composite for that family. Third, the shared Base Pillars Score and that family's Industry Composite combine in equal measure into the family's industry score, so structural and industry-specific competitiveness count the same. Fourth, the seven industry scores average, equally, into the overall competitiveness view. No score is re-scaled along the way. The combination logic from the pillar level upward is therefore stated openly — equal averaging at every step — while the weighting applied to the metrics inside each pillar stays proprietary. All positions — industry and overall alike — are ranks within the fixed set of 33 countries the report covers.