Latvia

Latvia is a new addition to the Index and is ranked 23rd overall.

Summary chart of Latvia'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 DEU LTU MEX CHL JPN ITA SVN ISR POL ISL CZE PRT TUR SVK HRV BGR ROU GRC HUN LVA InCiSE 0.46 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Latvia’s highest score is for digital services where it is ranked 3rd overall. Latvia also achieves above average scores for policy making, inclusiveness and tax administration.

On digital services, Latvia’s metric results are all above average and it achieves the maximum score for the metric which assesses the extent to which technical advances (“key enablers”) are helping to improve online services for businesses and employment support. It also does well on the availability of cross-border services.

Latvia’s tax administration results are on or above average and include very high scores for the metrics assessing the volume of online corporate tax and VAT returns.

On attributes, Latvia performs well on inclusiveness (ranked 13th), with all metrics scoring above average.

The main indicators where Latvia’s scores are below average are fiscal and financial management and regulation where metric scores vary widely.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.24 in the original 2019 publication.