Iceland vs Norway: Equal Access to Power Index

Iceland
0.941
in 2025
Norway
0.975
in 2025
Iceland rank
4th
Norway rank
1st

Equal Access to Power Index over time

  • Iceland
  • Norway
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How they compare

Norway currently reports 0.975 against 0.941 in Iceland, a difference of 0.034.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Norway ahead.

Iceland ranks 4th and Norway ranks 1st of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Equal Access to Power Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,486 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of the extent to which access to power is equal across socioeconomic position, social group, and gender.