Iceland vs Sweden: Equal Access to Power Index

Iceland
0.941
in 2025
Sweden
0.924
in 2025
Iceland rank
4th
Sweden rank
7th

Equal Access to Power Index over time

  • Iceland
  • Sweden
0.20.40.60.81178919072025

How they compare

Iceland currently reports 0.941 against 0.924 in Sweden, a difference of 0.017.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Sweden ahead.

Iceland ranks 4th and Sweden ranks 7th 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.