Norway vs Sweden: Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score)
Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100) (Government score) over time
- Norway
- Sweden
How they compare
Norway currently reports 90 0-100 against 89.54 0-100 in Sweden, a difference of 0.46 0-100.
The two have swapped places 6 times across 27 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Norway ahead.
Norway ranks 8th and Sweden ranks 9th of 206 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Norway averaged higher in 3 and Sweden in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Norway | Sweden | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 90.86 0-100 | 89.45 0-100 | 1.41 0-100 | Norway |
| 2000s | 91.19 0-100 | 92.53 0-100 | 1.34 0-100 | Sweden |
| 2010s | 91.88 0-100 | 91 0-100 | 0.8793 0-100 | Norway |
| 2020s | 90.64 0-100 | 89.79 0-100 | 0.8516 0-100 | Norway |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher government effectiveness - governance score, Norway or Sweden?
- Norway, at 90 0-100 against 89.54 0-100 in Sweden as of 2025.
- What is the difference in government effectiveness - governance score between Norway and Sweden?
- 0.46 0-100, with Norway ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Norway and Sweden?
- 27 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2025.
- How do Norway and Sweden rank globally for government effectiveness - governance score?
- Norway ranks 8th and Sweden ranks 9th of 206 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as Government Effectiveness - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Government Effectiveness (GE) captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government’s decisions. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).