# List of national quality awards

This list of national quality awards is an index to articles about notable national awards for quality, typically associated with business and manufacturing.

## Background

A national quality award is typically part of a larger effort by a government to make its country's businesses more competitive in the world economy. The awarding institutions are generally either government departments or ministries or not-for-profit organizations with government ties. In many countries, however, the awarding institutions are consortia of businesses. Candidate companies compete in award-specific assessments of business quality and excellence criteria. The assessments are annual and firms who wish to be considered for the awards file applications with the organization that conducts the competition in their home country. Competitors are evaluated by teams of examiners who are volunteers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and possibly elsewhere. Several examiners separately evaluate company submissions against award criteria after which they meet to discuss their findings and to agree on a consensus score. The highest scoring firms advance to the next phase where examiners perform site visits to compare actual practices against those reported in the company submission and finally, awards are given to companies whose practices best fulfill the criteria of the award models.
While each nation's awards programs only consider businesses within its national borders, there are two notable exceptions: The EFQM Excellence Award is a transnational award open to businesses operating in one or more European countries and the Deming Prize, which began as the Japan Quality Medal, became the first (and as of 2014 the only) global quality award in 1984.
The most widely recognized quality awards are the Deming Prize (the first of its kind) and the EFQM Excellence and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards (due to their size). The national quality award phenomenon grew out of the Total Quality Management movement of the 1980s.

## Awards

National quality awards :
| Name | Region | Country | Administering organization | Began |
| Australian Business Excellence Awards | Oceania | Australia | SAI Global | 1988 |
| Belgian Business Excellence Award | Europe | Belgium | Flemish Quality Management Center | 1990 |
| Canada Awards for Excellence | North America | Canada | Excellence Canada | 1989 |
| China Quality Award | Asia | China | China Association for Quality | 2001 |
| Deming Prize | Asia | Japan | Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers | 1951 |
| Dubai Government Excellence Award | Middle East | UAE | Dubai Government Excellence Program | 1997 |
| Dutch Quality Assessment | Europe | Netherlands | Instituut Nederland Kwaliteit | 1990 |
| EFQM Excellence Award | Europe | Europe | EFQM | 1992 |
| Egypt Government Excellence Award | Africa | Egypt | Ministry of Planning | 2018 |
| Fiji Business Excellence Awards | Oceania | Fiji | National Training and Productivity Centre | 1998 |
| ESPRIX Swiss Award for Excellence | Europe | Switzerland | Stiftung ESPRIX | |
| Government Excellence Model | Middle East | UAE | Sheikh Khalifa Government Excellence Program | 2009 |
| Indonesian Quality Award | Asia | Indonesia | Indonesian Quality Award Foundation | |
| Iran National Quality Award | Asia | Iran | Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran | |
| National Quality and Excellence Prize | Asia | Israel | Standards Institute of Israel | 1989 |
| King Abdulaziz Quality Award | Asia | Saudi Arabia | Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization | |
| King Abdullah II Award for Government Excellence Award | Middle East | Jordan | King Abdullah II Center for Excellence | 2006 |
| Korean National Quality Management Award | Asia | South Korea | Korean Standards Association | |
| de:Ludwig-Erhard-Preis (ILEP) | Europe | Germany | de:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität and Verein Deutscher Ingenieure | 1997 |
| Luxembourgish Award for Quality and Excellence | Europe | Luxemburg | MLQE | 2004 |
| Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award | North America | United States | National Institute of Standards and Technology | 1988 |
| Prime Minister Quality Award | Asia | Pakistan | National Productivity Organization | 2006 |
| Philippine Quality Award | Asia | Philippines | Center for Industrial Competitiveness | 1998 |
| pl:Polska Nagroda Jakości | Europe | Poland | Sekretariat Polskiej Nagrody Jakości | 1995 |
| es:Premio Colombiano a la Calidad de la Gestión | South America | Colombia | es:Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia | 1992 |
| Premio Nacional a la Calidad | South America | Argentina | Fundación Premio Nacional a la Calidad | 1992 |
| Premio Nacional a la Calidad | South America | Chile | es:Confederación de la Producción y del Comercio | |
| pt:Prêmio Nacional da Qualidade | South America | Brazil | pt:Fundação Nacional da Qualidade | 1992 |
| es:Premio Nacional de Calidad | North America | Mexico | Instituto para el Fomento a la Calidad Total | 1990 |
| Premio Qualità Italia | Europe | Italy | Associazione Premio Qualità Italia | 1997 |
| es:Premios Príncipe Felipe a la Excelencia Empresarial | Europe | Spain | es:Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo | 1993 |
| Prime Minister's Quality Award | Asia | Malaysia | Prime Minister of Malaysia | |
| Prix France Qualité Performance | Europe | France | Association France Qualité Performance | 2000 |
| Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award | Asia | India | Bureau of Indian Standards | 1992 |
| IMC Ramkrishna Bajaj National Quality Award | Asia | India | IMC Chamber of Commerce & Industry | 1997 |
| Russian Government Quality Award | Europe | Russia | Secretariat of the Russian Government Quality Award Board | 1997 |
| Singapore Business Excellence Awards | Asia | Singapore | SPRING Singapore | 1995 |
| Thailand Quality Award | Asia | Thailand | Thailand Productivity Institute (FTPI) | 1996 |
| TÜSİAD-KalDer National Quality Awards | Asia | Turkey | Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association | |
| UK Business Excellence Award | Europe | United Kingdom | British Quality Foundation | 1994 |
| Utmärkelsen Svensk Kvalitet | Europe | Sweden | SIQ Institutet för Kvalitetsutveckling | 1992 |
| India 5000 Best MSME Awards | Asia | India | India 5000 Business Awards | 2016 |