Statizoid

Denmark vs Sweden: Legislative Checks on Government Index

Denmark
0.977
in 2025
Sweden
0.989
in 2025
Denmark rank
4th
Sweden rank
1st

Legislative Checks on Government Index over time

  • Denmark
  • Sweden
00.20.40.60.81178919072025

How they compare

Sweden currently reports 0.989 against 0.977 in Denmark, a difference of 0.012.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 189 shared years of data; in 1835 it was Sweden ahead.

Denmark ranks 4th and Sweden ranks 1st of 174 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Legislative Checks on Government Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
174 places, 23,601 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which the legislature, including opposition parties, questions executive officials and oversees and investigates the executive.