EQx2026

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

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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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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.

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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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