United States of America

The USA is ranked 11th overall on the Index. It performs very strongly on capabilities (ranked 2nd) and crisis and risk management (ranked 4th).

Summary chart of United States of America's scores in the 2019 InCiSE index. GBR NZL CAN FIN AUS DNK NOR NLD SWE KOR 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 USA InCiSE 0.76 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 capabilities indicator, almost all the USA’s metric scores are above average. It achieves very high scores for the metrics assessing influencing skills and readiness to learn.

The USA also does well on all crisis and risk management metrics and achieves the maximum score for half of them. The USA’s maximum score for the effectiveness of public spending within the fiscal and financial management indicator is noteworthy.

The main area where the USA’s performance is less strong relative to other countries is policy making, where scores vary widely. It achieves the maximum score for one of the policy coordination metrics but does less well on the policy monitoring theme.

Cross-referencing note

This content was presented as section 4.38 in the original 2019 publication.