Costa Rica vs Sweden: Common Good Justifications Score

Costa Rica
2.04
in 2025
Sweden
2.04
in 2025
Costa Rica rank
15th
Sweden rank
14th

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Sweden
0.511.522.5190019622025

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 2.04 against 2.04 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.009.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 15th and Sweden ranks 14th of 175 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Common Good Justifications Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
175 places, 20,802 data points, 1900–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which political elites justify their views with the common good for society, either the greatest good for the greatest number of people or as helping the least advantaged people in society when considering important policy changes.