China vs Sweden: Sovereign state

China

in 2022

Sweden

in 2022

China rank

1st

Sweden rank

1st

Sovereign state over time

China currently reports 1 against 1 in Sweden, a difference of 0.

Across all 207 years both countries report, Sweden has been ahead every year.

China ranks 1st and Sweden ranks 1st of 194 countries.

Indicator: Sovereign state
Source: Butcher and Griffiths (2020) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 194 places, 40,158 data points, 1816–2022
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The country is identified as a sovereign state by the ISD dataset.