Finland

Finland is ranked 4th overall on the Index and achieves the top position for policy making.

Summary chart of Finland's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN AUS DNK NOR NLD SWE KOR USA EST CHE IRL AUT FRA ESP BEL DEU LTU MEX CHL LVA JPN ITA SVN ISR POL ISL CZE PRT TUR SVK HRV BGR ROU GRC HUN FIN InCiSE 0.88 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Finland achieves the maximum score for two policy making metrics which assess strategic planning and coordination themes, plus one more on the quality of policy advice. This suggests a strong all-round capability for this indicator.

Finland’s other strongest scores are for crisis and risk management (ranked 3rd) where it achieves the maximum score for all but 2 metrics, openness (ranked 4th) and capabilities(ranked 5th).

Within the openness indicator, Finland’s metric scores are very high on access to official information, the publication of laws, and the degree of government consultation with citizens on policy issues.

Finland’s capabilities results are noteworthy for its high scores for the readiness to learn and degree of job-related learning metrics, suggesting a strong learning and development ethos relative to other countries.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.12 in the original 2019 publication.