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Efficiency and equity – The Swedish economy in comparison to other countries at the beginning of the 21st century Cover

Efficiency and equity – The Swedish economy in comparison to other countries at the beginning of the 21st century

International Journal of Management and Economics
Volume 57 (2021): Issue 3 (September 2021)
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Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Countries with the highest HDI, 2017.Source: Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update 2018, p. 22. HDI, Human Development Index.

Figure 2

Countries with the highest level of life satisfaction of their inhabitants, 2016–2018a.aScale 0–10.Source: Helliwell, Layard, Sachs 2019.

Figure 3

OECD member countries with the highest per capita GDP, 2018a.aIn US dollars, current PPPs. GDP, gross domestic product; PPP, purchasing power parity.Source: OECD [2021], GDP: GDP per head, US$, current prices, current PPPs; https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=60702 (accessed January 9, 2021).

Figure 4

Number of triadic patent families per million inhabitants, 2018.Source: OECD [2021], Triadic patent families (indicator). doi: 10.1787/6a8d10f4-en (accessed June 2, 2021); OECD [2021], Population (indicator). doi: 10.1787/d434f82b-en (accessed June 2, 2021). Own calculations.

Figure 5

OECD member countries with the lowest Gini coefficient, year 2017a.aScale 0 – 1.0; net income (after taxes and transfers).b2016 data.c2015 data.Source: OECD [2019], Income inequality (indicator). doi: 10.1787/459aa7f1-en (accessed November 9, 2019).

Figure 6

Share of long-term unemployment in total unemployment in selected OECD countries, 2018 (%).Source: OECD [2019], Long-term unemployment rate (indicator). doi: 10.1787/76471ad5-en (accessed November 9, 2019).

Figure 7

OECD countries with the lowest poverty rate (in %), end of 2017a.aThe poverty rate is the percentage of inhabitants whose income is less than half the median income of all households.Source: OECD [2021], Poverty rate (indicator). doi: 10.1787/0fe1315d-en (accessed February 17, 2021).

Territory and population in Sweden, US, and Poland, 2018

CountryArea (in km2)Population (in million people)
Sweden450,29510.041
US9,833,517329.256
Poland312,68538.421

Share of long-term unemploymenta in total unemployment in Sweden, the US, and Poland, 2018 (%)

SwedenUSPoland
15.513.326.9

Intergenerational mobility of earnings in Sweden and other Nordic countriesa

SwedenDenmarkNorwayFinlandIceland
0.270.150.170.18n.d.a.

Innovativeness in Sweden, the US, and Poland (triadic patent families, 2018)a

SwedenUSPoland
75.7392.5

GDP per capita in Sweden, the US, and Poland, 2018a

SwedenUSPoland
55,24362,94932,611

Intergenerational mobility of earnings in Sweden and the US

SwedenUSPoland
0.270.470n.d.a.

Share of long-term unemploymenta in total unemployment in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2018 (%)

SwedenIcelandNorwayDenmarkFinland
15.510.914.420.222.8

Gini coefficient for disposable income in Sweden, the US, and Poland, 2017a

SwedenUSPolandb
28.239.028.4

Life satisfaction in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2016–2018a

SwedenFinlandDenmarkNorwayIceland
7.3437.7697.6007.5547.494

Satisfaction with life in Sweden, the US, and Poland, 2016–2018a

SwedenUSPoland
7.3436.8926.182

GDP per capita in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2018a

SwedenNorwayDenmarkIcelandFinland
55,24371,90959,27258,95351,296

Innovativeness in the Nordic countries (triadic patent families, 2018)a

SwedenDenmarkFinlandNorwayIceland
75.758.148.220.58.8

Poverty rate in the Nordic countries (in %), 2017

SwedenNorwayFinlandDenmarkaIcelandb
9.38.46.36.14.9

Average HUR in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2007–2017 (in % of the labor force)

SwedenFinlandDenmarkIcelandNorway
7.448.096.334.853.62

Territory and population in the Nordic countries, 2018

DenmarkFinlandIcelandNorwaySweden
Area (in km2)43,094338,145103,000323,802450,295
Population (in million people)5.8105.5370.3445.37210.041

HDI in Sweden, the US, and Poland, 2017

SwedenUSPoland
0.9330.9240.865

HDI in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2017

SwedenNorwayIcelandDenmarkFinland
0.9330.9530.9350.9290.917

Poverty rate in Sweden, US, and Poland (%), 2017

SwedenUSPoland
9.317.89,6

Gini coefficient for disposable income in Sweden and other Nordic countries, 2017a

SwedenFinlandNorwayDenmarkbIcelandc
28.226.626.226.125.5

Average HUR in Sweden, the US, and Poland in 2010–2018 (in % of the labor force)

SwedenUSPoland
7.446.768.38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2021-0017 | Journal eISSN: 2543-5361 | Journal ISSN: 2299-9701
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Language: English
Page range: 255 - 267
Submitted on: Feb 19, 2021
Accepted on: Jul 17, 2021
Published on: Sep 30, 2021
Published by: Warsaw School of Economics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
comparative economic systems,
Nordic model,
Sweden
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures,
Business management,
Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment

© 2021 Bogusław Czarny, Elżbieta Czarny, published by Warsaw School of Economics
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