The SGI provide the most comprehensive survey of sustainable governance in OECD and EU countries. Advocating the exchange of good practices, we offer full access to our data set and enable comparisons that generate future innovations in governance.

SGI DATA

Survey Structure


Explore the SGI’s three dimensions to dive straight into the underlying components. Select your area of interest to discover how countries are performing.

Democratic Government

Vertical Accountability
Diagonal Accountability
Horizontal Accountability

Governing with Foresight

Coordination
Consensus-Building
Sensemaking

Sustainable Policymaking

Economic Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability

Democratic Government
Ranking

1
Sweden
9.5
2
Norway
9.4
3
Denmark
9.3
 
Finland
9.3
5
Germany
8.9
SGI average
7.6
25
Netherlands
6.7
27
Israel
6.6
28
Japan
6.1
29
Poland
4.5
30
Hungary
4.1

Governing with Foresight
Ranking

1
Denmark
8.3
 
Finland
8.3
3
Sweden
7.9
4
New Zealand
7.8
5
Norway
7.7
SGI average
6.5
26
Israel
5.5
27
Italy
5.3
28
Poland
4.3
29
Hungary
4.2
 
Slovakia
4.2

Sustainable Policymaking
Ranking

1
Sweden
8.0
2
Denmark
7.8
 
Norway
7.8
4
Finland
7.7
5
Germany
7.4
SGI average
6.4
26
Greece
5.5
27
Slovakia
5.3
28
Israel
5.2
29
Poland
5.0
30
Hungary
4.6

Create your own rankings by changing
component’s relative weighting

SGI PUBLICATIONS

SGI Studies

Our studies offer comprehensive examinations of key aspects and region-specific challenges in sustainable governance. Our deep dives identify promising governance innovations that are essential for successful transformation

SGI Policy Briefs

Our policy briefs examine specific policy challenges, providing summaries of current interventions and good practices for policymakers, while considering their key impacts.

SGI Country Reports

Our country reports examine developments across all 64 indicators, providing detailed explanations for the numerical assessments in our key focus areas: sustainable policymaking, foresight in governance, and democratic governance.

SGI COUNTRIES

The SGI examines 30 member states of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU), focusing on their performance in democratic governance, foresight- driven leadership and sustainable policymaking.

results

SGI ANALYSIS

Our new Analysis section allows you correlate individual results. You can plot each dimension, category, criterion and indicator on the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) axes.


Higher scores are represented further to the right and top.



Trendline

Trendlines can be added to the graph, making it easier to spot significant correlations between selected variables.



Z-Axis

Add a third indicator to your analysis.

Quadrants

Two medians divide the
graph into four
quadrant groups:


Above-median perfor-
mances on both axes.


Below-median perfor-
mance on the X-axis,
above-median on the
Y-axis.


Above-median perfor-
mance on the X-axis,
below-median on the
Y-axis.


Below-median perfor-
mance on both axes.

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