Norway

Norway is ranked 7th overall on the Index. It achieves the top position for openness.

Summary chart of Norway's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN FIN AUS DNK 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 NOR InCiSE 0.83 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Norway’s scores are above average for all indicators. Other high rankings are 4th for tax administration, 5th for integrity, 6th for digital services and 8th for policy making.

Norway’s top position for openness reflects a consistently strong performance across most metrics, including maximum scores for the degree of public access to information and government consultation with citizens on policy issues.

Norway’s tax administration scores are high for all but one metric, namely the volume ofonline personal tax returns. Its highest scores are for an efficiency metric (total tax debt as a proportion of net revenue), and the volume of online VAT returns.

On integrity, Norway’s scores are mostly above average and include the maximum score for the existence of post-employment cooling-off systems, plus high scores on public perceptions of corruption in the civil service. Norway’s digital services scores are mostly above average.

The main indicator where Norway’s performance is less strong relative to other countries is procurement where metric scores vary widely.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.27 in the original 2019 publication.