Alina Shevtsova
The article examines the gap between economies with the highest and lowest growth rates of sectors in terms of the introduction and use of digital technologies and the rates of development of digital transformation processes that exist at the current stage of society's development. The aim of the work is to study the existence of asymmetry in the development of the global economy in the context of its digitalization, both from the point of view of the conditions or potential of digital transformation, and the level of implementation of digital technologies in the economy of individual countries of the world. It is proposed to build a Digital Transformation Index of the Global Economy, which includes two sub-indices - opportunities and results of digital transformation, based on the use of the author's methodological approach, which involves the implementation of the following steps:1) formation of an information base for calculating the Digital Transformation Index and the corresponding sub-indices;2) calculation of sub-indices of potential and results of digital transformation based on collected and standardized data;3) ranking of countries of the world in accordance with the values of the sub-indices of potential and results of digital transformation calculated in the previous step;4) calculation of the Digital Transformation Index of the Global Economy based on previously defined sub-indices of potential and results of digital transformation;5) ranking of countries in the world in accordance with the calculated Digital Transformation Index of the Global Economy.Based on the cluster analysis, three clusters were identified among the 88 countries studied by sub-indices of potential and results of digital transformation and GDP per capita, each of which characterizes countries in the world that are at different stages of digital development in terms of the level of created conditions for further digitalization, the level of maturity of national digital transformation strategies and the results of the implementation of digital technologies:1) countries that are advanced in digital transformation;2) countries that are in the transition stage of digital transformation;3) countries with limited readiness for digital transformation.It is concluded that the study confirms the significant asymmetry of the development of the global economy in the context of its digital transformation, which is manifested in the unevenness of the digital transformation potential of the countries of the world to digital technologies, infrastructure and obtaining significant results of the digital economy.