EQx2026

Rankings & Data

Explore 151 country scores, global ranks, Power and Value views, interactive maps, and download-ready EQx research materials.

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EQx2026 Countries Score and Global Rank

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Rank EQx26	Country	EQx26 Score	Power Rank/151	Power Score	Value Rank/151	Value Score
#1	🇸🇬Singapore	66.1	#17	63.5	#1	67.4
#2	🇺🇸United States	65.0	#1	75.1	#16	60.0
#3	🇯🇵Japan	64.8	#14	64.0	#2	65.1
#4	🇨🇭Switzerland	64.0	#20	62.5	#3	64.8
#5	🇸🇪Sweden	63.8	#2	69.4	#11	60.9
#6	🇰🇷Korea, Rep.	63.6	#16	63.8	#5	63.5
#7	🇳🇱Netherlands	63.5	#8	66.7	#7	61.9
#8	🇨🇦Canada	63.3	#3	68.2	#12	60.8
#9	🇩🇪Germany	62.7	#7	67.1	#14	60.4
#10	🇩🇰Denmark	62.6	#11	65.0	#8	61.5

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PILLARS

EQx Pillar Scores & Index Areas

The Pillars of the EQx. Each EQx Pillar serves as the conceptual home for a cluster of indivisible indicators organized by their proximity to specific value creation or extraction phenomena. A consistent 12-Pillar structure — three per Index Area — ensures that elite business model agency can be directly compared to macro developmental outcomes. Together, the Pillars form the operational backbone of the EQx: they act as intermediate aggregation building blocks feeding into the four Index Areas, and provide policymakers with the granular evidence required to formulate targeted structural reforms.

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State Capture (i.1)… is a Political Power Pillar. It addresses the rules of the state, i.e., how distributional coalitions capture the state and its branches of government, for example, through an Indicator like Political corruption (COR, i.1).

Regulatory Capture (i.2)… is a Political Power Pillar. It addresses the rules of business regulation, i.e., to what extent rules and regulations, both in terms of process and output, have been captured by interest groups.

Human Capture (i.3)… is a Political Power Pillar. It addresses the rules for labor markets and civil service jobs. This Pillar accounts for the power of labor and civil service coalitions, the power of those able to implement discriminatory practices, and the power of elite business models to influence wages and working conditions.

Creative Destruction (ii.6)… is an Economic Power Pillar. It measures the pressures for renewal and disruption that exist within an economy and fuel Value Creation. It is based on Schumpeter’s concept of ‘Creative Destruction’—the replacement of outdated business practices with innovative new structures. This Pillar includes Indicators such as the ease of access to Venture capital finance (VCK, ii.6) and measures to support Entrepreneurship (ENT, ii.6).

Taking Income (iii.8)… is a Political Value Pillar. It addresses to what extent the state collects income—as in the Indicator Tax revenue as % of GDP (dev. fm optimum) (DTR, iii.8)—or whether it allows the existence of business models that take the ultimate form of value—life itself—as measured by an Indicator like Death rates from substance use disorders per 100,000 people (SUB, iii.8).

Labor Value (iv.12)… is an Economic Value Pillar. It measures the extent of Value Creation in one of the economy’s three markets (the products and services markets, the capital markets and the labor markets). This Pillar, which includes Indicators such as the Unemployment rate (UEM, iv.12) and the Human flight and brain drain (BRN, iv.12), allows us to assess the value created or the rents extracted in the labor markets, for example, from interventions in both supply and demand.

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#18	🇫🇮Finland	#1	81.6	60.5
#7	🇳🇱Netherlands	#2	81.2	63.5
#12	🇳🇿New Zealand	#3	80.4	62.1
#10	🇩🇰Denmark	#4	80.2	62.6
#16	🇳🇴Norway	#5	79.8	61.1
#5	🇸🇪Sweden	#6	78.3	63.8
#9	🇩🇪Germany	#7	77.4	62.7
#4	🇨🇭Switzerland	#8	76.6	64.0
#26	🇮🇪Ireland	#9	76.4	57.5
#17	🇬🇧United Kingdom	#10	76.4	60.9

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EQx Comparison Tool

Compare countries across Elite Quality, Power, Value, the 12-pillar structure, and historical PEQx states where official data is available.

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Elite Quality Country Comparison Tool

Can we measure if and when elites are good or bad for their nations? To what extent do elite business models focus on value creation rather than extraction? How powerful are elites? Do they use their power and coordination capacity to grow the economic pie for all, or do they rather attempt to increase their slice of the pie at the expense of non-elites? Compare up to five countries on their Elite Quality, the comparative power of their elites (a higher ranking denotes a less powerful elite) and the Value that they deliver.

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Power RankingSub-Index I

Value RankingSub-Index II

EQx VISUALIZATION

Power vs Value Analysis

The maps show one sub-index at a time and the table puts them in adjacent columns. Here they are against each other, for all 151 countries at once.

15 Value ahead of Power
61 Both above the median
59 Both below the median
16 Power ahead of Value

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The 31 countries whose Power and Value ranks are more than 40 places apart

Ordered by the gap between the two ranks.
EQx	Power	Value	Gap
#57	#130	#26	104
#101	#141	#60	81
#104	#50	#128	78
#109	#56	#132	76
#84	#47	#117	70
#126	#70	#138	68
#130	#74	#141	67
#44	#22	#88	66
#60	#102	#37	65
#91	#52	#115	63
#56	#94	#33	61
#67	#105	#45	60
#71	#109	#49	60
#47	#87	#31	56
#49	#31	#87	56
#110	#73	#124	51
#78	#107	#59	48
#82	#112	#64	48
#135	#91	#139	48
#93	#66	#112	46
#113	#137	#92	45
#25	#53	#9	44
#123	#143	#99	44
#69	#95	#52	43
#83	#58	#101	43
#103	#129	#86	43
#86	#110	#68	42
#97	#124	#82	42
#90	#113	#72	41
#21	#46	#6	40
#98	#123	#83	40