Sweden

Sweden is ranked 10th overall on the Index. Its strongest scores are for crisis and risk management and fiscal and financial management (both ranked 2nd), as well as integrity (ranked 4th).

Summary chart of Sweden's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN FIN AUS DNK NOR NLD 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 SWE InCiSE 0.78 0.52 Capabilities Crisis and risk management Digital services Fiscal and financial management HR management Inclusiveness Integrity Openness Policy making Procurement Regulation Tax administration

Sweden achieves the maximum score for over half of the crisis and risk management indicators, with risk planning being the main theme where scores are lower but still above average. Within the fiscal and financial management indicator Sweden’s metric scores are all above average. Its highest scores are for open budgeting as well as performance budgeting. On integrity, Sweden achieves the maximum score for the metric on the degree of whistle-blower protection.

Sweden is ranked 6th for policy making. It achieves the maximum score for metrics assessing the extent to which external academic expertise influences policy decisions.

Sweden achieves above average scores for all indicators apart from procurement. Sweden’s HRM management and inclusiveness scores are around the average.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.34 in the original 2019 publication.