Denmark vs Sweden: Democracy
Denmark
9
in 2025
Sweden
9
in 2025
Denmark rank
1st
Sweden rank
1st
Democracy over time
- Denmark
- Sweden
How they compare
Denmark currently reports 9 against 9 in Sweden, a difference of 0.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Sweden ahead.
Denmark ranks 1st and Sweden ranks 1st of 176 countries.
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About this data
Political regime of a country using the Regimes of the World classification by political scientists Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg and Staffan Lindberg, including ambiguous categories.