Denmark vs Sweden: Citizen support for democracy

Denmark
2.35
in 2020
Sweden
2.13
in 2020
Denmark rank
3rd
Sweden rank
4th

Citizen support for democracy over time

  • Denmark
  • Sweden
0123198820042020

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 2.35 against 2.13 in Sweden, a difference of 0.2158.

That makes Denmark's figure about 1.1 times Sweden's.

Across all 25 years both countries report, Denmark has been ahead every year.

Denmark ranks 3rd and Sweden ranks 4th of 144 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Citizen support for democracy
Source
Claassen (2022) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
144 places, 3,104 data points, 1988–2020
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the average extent to which citizens support a democratic political system and reject autocratic alternatives. It combines responses across more than one thousand nationally-representative surveys on how desirable citizens find democracy, how they evaluate undemocratic alternatives (such as a strong unelected leader, the army, or religious authorities), and how they assess democratic and autocratic political systems relative to another.