Sworn Score
Country profile
Iceland
Europe · Capital: Reykjavik
Score 83.6 ± 5 · Rank #1 of scored countries in 1998.
Based on 109/123 indicators, avg data age 1.4 years.
Category breakdown
How Iceland scores across the 7 dimensions
Weight-normalized averages over the indicators that have data. Categories below 70% coverage of their own indicators are suppressed.
Health
96.6
Economy
67.5
Governance
94.5
Education
85.5
Infrastructure
98.1
Environment
56.6
Rights
81.1
Promises
Latest promise updates
14 achieved · 1 on track · 2 failing · 3 tracking
History
Iceland — Sworn Score over time
Each year is a snapshot using that year's methodology (trimmed-bounds over the trailing 5-year value pool). Click a column header to sort.
Change since 1971: -4.5 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — |
| 1967 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | 78.5 | 1 |
| 1972 | 77.5 | 2 |
| 1973 | 77.0 | 1 |
| 1974 | 77.4 | 1 |
| 1975 | 78.2 | 1 |
| 1976 | 66.3 | 13 |
| 1977 | 67.7 | 10 |
| 1978 | 68.4 | 11 |
| 1979 | 68.7 | 11 |
| 1980 | 70.8 | 14 |
| 1981 | 73.5 | 12 |
| 1982 | 74.8 | 11 |
| 1983 | 72.5 | 18 |
| 1984 | 69.7 | 9 |
| 1985 | 70.1 | 12 |
| 1986 | 81.3 | 5 |
| 1987 | 81.1 | 4 |
| 1988 | 79.8 | 5 |
| 1989 | 80.0 | 8 |
| 1990 | 74.5 | 9 |
| 1991 | 77.2 | 5 |
| 1992 | 78.5 | 3 |
| 1993 | 78.8 | 2 |
| 1994 | 79.2 | 4 |
| 1995 | 79.2 | 3 |
| 1996 | 81.5 | 4 |
| 1997 | 81.6 | 4 |
| 1998 | 83.6 | 1 |
| 1999 | 82.1 | 5 |
| 2000 | 82.3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 82.8 | 4 |
| 2002 | 83.6 | 3 |
| 2003 | 84.6 | 2 |
| 2004 | 84.5 | 1 |
| 2005 | 85.1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 84.3 | 1 |
| 2007 | 83.9 | 1 |
| 2008 | 81.3 | 5 |
| 2009 | 79.4 | 5 |
| 2010 | 78.5 | 7 |
| 2011 | 78.9 | 6 |
| 2012 | 78.9 | 7 |
| 2013 | 78.6 | 8 |
| 2014 | 78.4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 78.8 | 5 |
| 2016 | 79.3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 78.8 | 7 |
| 2018 | 78.7 | 6 |
| 2019 | 78.4 | 7 |
| 2020 | 77.4 | 8 |
| 2021 | 78.0 | 8 |
| 2022 | 77.7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 77.0 | 8 |
| 2024 | 76.3 | 8 |
| 2025 | 74.9 | 9 |
| 2026 | 74.1 | 12 |