Germany

Germany is ranked 19th overall on the Index and its strongest score is for fiscal and financial management (ranked 5th).

Summary chart of Germany's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN FIN AUS DNK NOR NLD SWE KOR USA EST CHE IRL AUT FRA ESP BEL LTU MEX CHL LVA JPN ITA SVN ISR POL ISL CZE PRT TUR SVK HRV BGR ROU GRC HUN DEU InCiSE 0.50 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Within the fiscal and financial management indicator Germany’s highest scores are for the effectiveness of public spending theme and the metric assessing medium term budgeting practices. Germany also performs well on regulation (ranked 6th overall) and it achieves the maximum score for the metric assessing the quality of regulatory impact assessments.

Germany is ranked 9th for integrity and some metric scores are noteworthy. For example, Germany achieves the maximum score for the existence of a post-employment cooling-off period. It also attains a high score for the metrics measuring the extent to which official follow rules.

The main indicators where Germany’s performance is less strong relative to other countries are crisis and risk management and procurement where metric scores vary widely, and tax administration.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.8 in the original 2019 publication.