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 | 92.50 | 8 |
2. Handset prices | 70.48 | 15 |
3. Households with internet acccess | 94.72 | 11 |
4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 100.00 | 1 |
5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 92.12 | 31 |
6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 69.75 | 55 |
7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | n/a | n/a |
1. GitHub commits | 84.98 | 3 |
2. Wikipedia edits | 93.45 | 4 |
3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
4. Mobile apps development | 88.66 | 13 |
1. Availability of latest technologies | 96.31 | 5 |
2. Company investment in emerging technology | 91.97 | 3 |
3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 100.00 | 1 |
4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 54.79 | 10 |
5. Robot density | 72.93 | 5 |
1. Medium and high-tech industry | 67.74 | 10 |
2. High-tech exports | 27.61 | 33 |
3. PCT patent applications | 91.27 | 2 |
4. Labour productivity per employee | 69.51 | 14 |
5. Prevalence of gig economy | 72.37 | 18 |
1. Happiness | 92.49 | 8 |
2. Freedom to make life choices | 96.30 | 8 |
3. Income inequality | 88.14 | 16 |
4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 87.36 | 16 |
1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 95.08 | 6 |
2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 66.58 | 15 |
3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 79.24 | 46 |
4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 78.76 | 67 |
5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 100.00 | 1 |
1. Internet users | 92.26 | 13 |
2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 48.39 | 17 |
3. Use of virtual social networks | 73.20 | 17 |
5. Tertiary enrolment | 48.73 | 37 |
5. Adult literacy rate | n/a | n/a |
6. ICT skills | 95.14 | 3 |
1. Firms with website | 93.05 | 6 |
2. Ease of doing business | 91.56 | 10 |
3. Professionals | 72.42 | 2 |
4. Technicians and associate professionals | 79.53 | 8 |
5. Business use of digital tools | 96.36 | 6 |
6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 60.02 | 5 |
1. Government online services | 89.70 | 15 |
2. Publication and use of open data | 69.84 | 15 |
3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 71.71 | 16 |
4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 90.76 | 3 |
1. Secure Internet servers | 81.02 | 24 |
2. Cybersecurity | 86.89 | 34 |
3. Online access to financial account | 93.08 | 4 |
4. Internet shopping | 91.90 | 6 |
1. Regulatory quality | 91.06 | 6 |
2. ICT regulatory environment | 90.35 | 33 |
3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 84.19 | 7 |
4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
5. Privacy protection by law content | 99.35 | 2 |
1. E-Participation | 81.48 | 41 |
2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 97.28 | 7 |
3. Availability of local online content | 100.00 | 1 |
4. Gender gap in internet use | 72.47 | 5 |
5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 75.98 | 24 |