Quantifying the Robustness of Countries’ Competitiveness by Network-Based Methods

Table 1

The main export products of some high fitness countries. The first column is the descending order of the countries by the fitness of countries in FCM. In the table, only the top-10 influential export products are listed here, where the products are ranked according to the product scores by FCM.

Fitness Ranking	Country	Top-10 influential export products
1	USA	Fuel oils. Construction and mining machinery. Non-ferrous base metal waste and scrap. Gasoline and other light oils. Machinery for specialized industries. Parts and accessories of some special instruments. Special transactions and commodities. Crude petroleum and oils from bituminous materials. Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and bituminous mixtures. Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
2	UK	Crustaceans and molluscs, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, etc. Non-ferrous base metal waste and scrap. Petroleum bitumen, petroleum coke and bituminous mixtures. Fish, dried, salted or in brine. Crustaceans and molluscs, prepared or unprepared. Coffee green, roasted. Sheep and lamb skin without the wool. Building and monumental (dimension) stone. Fuel oils. Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons.
3	Germany	Crude petroleum and oils from bituminous materials. Parts and accessories of some special instruments. Surveying, navigational, compasses, etc, instruments. Crustaceans and molluscs, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, etc. Coffee green, roasted. Non-ferrous metal waste and scrap. Fuel oils. Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons. Fuel oils. Diamonds (non-industrial).
9	Italy	Castor oil seeds. True hemp, raw or processed but not spun. Coal gas, water gas and similar gases. Potassium salts, natural, crude. Iron pyrites, unroasted. Roasted iron pyrites. Ores and concentrates of uranium and thorium. Vegetable textile fibres and waste. Rye, unmilled. Mate.
7	China	Non-ferrous base metal waste and scrap. Crude petroleum and oils from bituminous materials. Fuel oils. Construction and mining machinery. Parts of some special machinery and equipment. Machinery for specialized industries. Passenger motor vehicles. Trailers and transports containers. Surveying, navigational, compasses, etc, instruments. Special transactions and commodities.
10	Russia	Coffee green, roasted. Petroleum gases. Building and monumental (dimension) stone. Crude petroleum and oils from bituminous materials. Fish, frozen, excluding fillets. Fish fillets, frozen. Fish, dried, salted or in brine. Crustaceans and molluscs. Non-ferrous metal waste and scrap. Fuel oils.