Denmark vs Sweden: Legislative Corruption Score

Denmark
2.98
in 2025
Sweden
2.98
in 2025
Denmark rank
3rd
Sweden rank
3rd

Legislative Corruption Score over time

  • Denmark
  • Sweden
-2024178919072025

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 2.98 against 2.98 in Sweden, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1848 it was Sweden ahead.

Denmark ranks 3rd and Sweden ranks 3rd of 174 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Legislative Corruption Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
174 places, 17,541 data points, 1789–2025
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Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent to which members of the legislature abuse their position for financial gain, such as bribes, government contracts, future employment, or stealing from the state. Higher scores mean less corruption. A score of 0 is approximately the average across all countries and years.