Performance Overview
SWEDEN claims the top spot in the renewed NRI. One of the country’s greatest strengths is its consistency across the pillars: It ranks in the top 10 in all four pillars and in the top 5 in three of them. Sweden’s highest position at the pillar level is with respect to People (2nd), where it is the global leader in terms of Business ICT usage and skills, and it ranks 4th when it comes to the role of Government in ICT usage for People. The country ranks 3rd in the Impact pillar and 4th in the Technology pillar, boosted by strong showings in the Economy (5th) and Quality of Life (6th) sub-pillars in the former case and by impressive performances in the Content (5th) and Future Technologies (3rd) sub-pillars in the latter. One of Sweden’s weakest dimensions relates to the Individuals (14th) sub-pillar, where there is a possibility to raise the skill set of the population.
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 92.5 | 8 |
| 2. Cost of cheapest internet-enable device (% of monthly GDP per capita) | 70.48 | 15 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 94.38 | 11 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 100 | 1 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of totaal subscriptions) | 92.12 | 30 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 69.71 | 54 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | n/a | n/a |
| 1. Digital participation | n/a | n/a |
| 2. Mobile apps development | 87.49 | 13 |
| 3. Receipts for the use of intellectual property | 27.29 | 7 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 96.45 | 5 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 91.3 | 3 |
| 3. Government procurement of advanced technology products | 65.09 | 16 |
| 4. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 92.33 | 2 |
| 5. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 54.55 | 8 |
| 6. Robot density | 72.93 | 5 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 67.74 | 10 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 27.18 | 30 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 92.95 | 2 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 61.6 | 13 |
| 1. Happiness | 89.93 | 8 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 95.67 | 9 |
| 3. Income inequality | 88.95 | 17 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 86.08 | 16 |
| 1. Access to basic services | 99.54 | 19 |
| 2. Pollution | 99.82 | 3 |
| 3. Road safety | 99.69 | 3 |
| 4. Reading proficiency in schools | 98.86 | 6 |
| 5. Maths proficiency in schools | 76.02 | 19 |
| 5. Use of clean fuels and technology | 100 | 1 |
| 1. Internet users | 91.64 | 13 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 47.96 | 17 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 71.93 | 18 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 48.73 | 35 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | n/a | n/a |
| 6. ICT skills | 86.49 | 9 |
| 1. Firms with website | 95.85 | 4 |
| 2. Internet shopping | 91.9 | 6 |
| 3. Professionals | 75.32 | 2 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 81.09 | 9 |
| 5. Extent of staff training | 83.35 | 7 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 59.34 | 5 |
| 1. Government online services | 93.84 | 14 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 69.84 | 15 |
| 3.ICT use and government efficiency | 83.35 | 5 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 89.05 | 3 |
| 1. Rule of law | 96.57 | 4 |
| 2. Software piracy rate | 94.59 | 6 |
| 3. Secure Internet servers | 83.87 | 23 |
| 4. Cybersecurity | 86.73 | 34 |
| 5. Online trust and safety | 66.06 | 45 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 91.06 | 6 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 91.56 | 10 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to digital business models | 85.14 | 6 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100 | 1 |
| 5. Social safety net protection | 85.34 | 14 |
| 6. ICT regulatory environment | 90.35 | 32 |
| 1. E-Participation | 92.99 | 19 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 97.28 | 7 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 91.96 | 5 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 72.47 | 4 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 75.98 | 23 |