Canada vs Sweden: Free and Fair Elections Index

Canada
0.944
in 2025
Sweden
0.945
in 2025
Canada rank
16th
Sweden rank
13th

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

  • Canada
  • Sweden
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How they compare

Sweden currently reports 0.945 against 0.944 in Canada, a difference of 0.001.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 185 shared years of data; in 1841 it was Sweden ahead.

Canada ranks 16th and Sweden ranks 13th of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Free and Fair Elections Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,402 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of the extent to which registration fraud, systematic irregularities, government intimidation of the opposition, vote buying, and election violence are absent, and the election management body is autonomous and has enough staff and resources.