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How reliable are police services?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Executive opinion survey; response to the survey question “In your country, to what extent can police services be relied upon to enforce law and order?” [1 = not at all; 7 = to a great extent] \| 2017–2018, weighted average or most recent period available
Year:	2019
Unit:	Standardized Scale
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Report
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Annotation:	World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Report, 2018 and 2019 edition, Dataset: Reliability of police services [EOSQ055] URL: http://reports.weforum.org/g… http://www3.weforum.org/docs… http://reports.weforum.org/g… http://www3.weforum.org/docs…

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	8.495
Minimum:	1.975
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Confidence in Police

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Upper middle group

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Finland

7.5

6.72

Switzerland

7.1

6.43

Iceland

7.1

6.41

Spain

7.0

6.31

Japan

6.9

6.23

New Zealand

6.8

6.21

Austria

6.8

6.16

Luxembourg

6.8

6.16

Australia

6.6

6.05

Estonia

6.5

5.99

Netherlands

6.5

5.99

Denmark

6.3

5.85

Norway

6.3

5.79

Portugal

6.3

5.78

Canada

6.2

5.75

USA

6.1

5.69

Ireland

6.1

5.68

Chile

6.1

5.67

Lower middle group

Belgium

5.9

5.56

Slovenia

5.8

5.46

South Korea

5.6

5.34

France

5.5

5.26

5.4

5.19

Lithuania

5.4

5.17

Sweden

5.4

5.13

Germany

5.3

5.10

Israel

5.3

5.09

Czechia

5.2

4.99

Romania

5.1

4.96

Italy

5.0

4.85

Cyprus

5.0

4.84

Latvia

4.8

4.72

Hungary

4.5

4.54

Turkey

4.3

4.35

Croatia

4.2

4.27

Malta

4.0

4.17

Poland

3.9

4.09

Greece

3.9

4.07

Bulgaria

3.6

3.86

Slovakia

3.0

3.39

Bottom group

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Mexico

1.7

2.48