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Intelrift Geoeconomic Index· Edition 1 · Q4 2026

Sweden

24.5

Low · 20+Rank 171 of 192+2.8 against the previous edition · #174 → #171Europe · Northern Europe · 5 of 5 sub-indices available
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Rank in its region33 / 42Europe
Rank in its income group48 / 62High income
Comparable countriesAustriaIGE 25.3 · distance 4.3Comparable countriesEstoniaIGE 22.8 · distance 4.3

Comparable countries

Nearest in the five-dimensional sub-index space (euclidean distance over shared dimensions).

What would move the score

  • Chokepoints±2.5 points
  • Sanctions±2.5 points
  • Commodity concentration±2.0 points
  • Institutional fragility±1.5 points
  • Sovereign stress±1.5 points

Change in the IGE if one sub-index moved by 10 points, with this country's effective weights.

Sub-indices against the regional and global mean

CountryRegional meanGlobal mean

Source: Intelrift, IGE. Simple means of covered countries.Data through 19 October 2026

History by edition

Hollow points are retrospectives: past years computed with the current method, without newsroom events and with the current snapshot of the sanctions lists.

Source: Intelrift, IGEData through 19 October 2026

Key factors

What drives the score

  • Reserves in months of imports: 2.2 months (2025), risk percentile 92.source
  • Political and security events (90 days): 80.8 (2026), risk percentile 83.source
  • Entities under US export controls: 23 (2026), risk percentile 77.source
  • Import concentration (HHI): 0.51 (2025), risk percentile 57.source

Each factor comes from a sourced, dated input; the percentile says where the country sits among those covered.

How it is calculated

Weights, coverage and provenance

Chokepoints15Effective 25 %
Sanctions35Effective 25 %
Commodity concentration24Effective 20 %
Institutional fragility17Effective 15 %
Sovereign stress32Effective 15 %

5 of 5 sub-indices available · ige-v1

Provenance hash

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SHA-256 of the canonical JSON of the inputs, their sources and periods, the winsorisation bounds and the weights. Same inputs, same hash.

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Sub-index inputs

Chokepoints · 14.7

How much of the country's GDP depends on six maritime passages (Hormuz, Suez, Malacca, Bab el-Mandeb, Panama, Bosphorus) staying open, plus its imported-energy dependence, logistics performance and whether it is landlocked.

Exposure to the main chokepoint (2025)10 % of GDP · percentile 15
Total chokepoint exposure (2025)27.4 % of GDP · percentile 23
Net energy import dependence (2024)27.7 % · percentile 30
Fuel share of imports (2025)8.3 % · percentile 21
Landlocked (transit dependence) (2026)no · percentile 0
Logistics performance (LPI) (2022)4 · percentile 0

Sanctions · 34.9

Whether the jurisdiction is under a sanctions regime (and how intense), how many people and entities linked to the country appear on the OFAC, EU, UN and UK lists, how many on US export-control lists, and how much it trades with sanctioned partners.

Jurisdiction-level sanctions regimeno regime · percentile 0
Designations linked to the country (2026)23 · percentile 50
Designations under country programmes (2026)0 · percentile 0
Entities under US export controls (2026)23 · percentile 77
Exposure to sanctioned partners (2023)40.2 · percentile 48

Commodity concentration · 24.0

Concentration of exports and imports by product group (Herfindahl index), fuel and food share of imports, natural resource rents over GDP and terms-of-trade volatility.

Export concentration (HHI) (2025)0.54 · percentile 45
Import concentration (HHI) (2025)0.51 · percentile 57
Fuel and food share of imports (2025)20 % · percentile 14
Natural resource rents (2021)1.2 % of GDP · percentile 4
Terms-of-trade volatility (2024)1.8 % · percentile 0

Institutional fragility · 16.5

Rule of law, political stability, government effectiveness and control of corruption (WGI), the INFORM index, battle deaths, homicides and new conflict displacements per capita, and the quarter's political and security events recorded by Intelrift.

Rule of law (WGI) (2025)87.3 · percentile 0
Political stability and absence of violence (WGI) (2025)80.6 · percentile 15
Government effectiveness (WGI) (2025)89.5 · percentile 0
Control of corruption (WGI) (2025)87.5 · percentile 0
INFORM risk index (2026)2.7 · percentile 16
Battle-related deaths per 100,000 peopleinsufficient data
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people (2023)1.15 · percentile 2
New conflict displacements per 1,000 peopleinsufficient data
Political and security events (90 days) (2026)80.8 · percentile 83
Terror and narco incidents (90 days) (2026)insufficient data

Sovereign stress · 31.9

Reserves in months of imports, current account balance, inflation, depreciation against the dollar, external debt and its service, short-term debt over reserves, broad money over reserves, interest over revenue and Intelrift's daily country risk.

Reserves in months of imports (2025)2.2 months · percentile 92
Current account balance (2025)6.8 % of GDP · percentile 25
Annual inflation (2025)0.7 % · percentile 3
Annual depreciation against the dollar (2025)-7.1 % · percentile 0
External debt to GNInot applicable
Debt service to exportsnot applicable
Short-term debt to reservesnot applicable
Broad money to reserves (2024)7.5× · percentile 53
Interest payments to revenue (2024)1.1 % · percentile 2
Intelrift daily country risk (2026)27 · percentile 48