Ukraine is ranked 99th in the global rank of the best countries by The Good Country Index and is leading by 13th place in Science and Technology Section. Great Britain took first place, United States are for some reason 26th, and Russia which is in an overall rating of the countries 95th, – only took 41st place in Science and Technology Section.
Analytics were taking into consideration each country’s contribution to the development of mankind and divided it into seven categories, by science, culture, and health care. In Science and Technology were estimated such parameters as the number of international students, the number of patents and exported technologies, international science publishing and the number of Nobel prize winners.
There were used several sources as information from United Nations, The World Bank, and other international institutes.
The other rating project called Innovation Cities Index put such Ukrainian cities as Kyiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk ,and also Simferopol and Sevastopol in the list of the innovative cities in the world.