environmental2020

Policy stringency — All environmental policies (EPS index)

Name: Policy stringency — All environmental policies (EPS index)
Creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, oecd, climate-weather-heat, policy, stringency, all, environmental, policies, eps, index

Compare policy stringency — all environmental policies (eps index) across 40 countries or territories using one fixed 2020 OECD reference slice.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)•40 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

2.90-6 scale

Median: 3.00-6 scale

Countries Covered

40

with available data

Highest

France

4.90-6 scale

Lowest

New Zealand

0.80-6 scale

Top 5 Countries

1France4.90-6 scale

2Switzerland4.50-6 scale

3Luxembourg4.20-6 scale

4Finland4.10-6 scale

5Norway3.90-6 scale

By Region

Europe3.40-6 scale(24 countries)

Asia2.60-6 scale(6 countries)

North America2.50-6 scale(3 countries)

Other2.00-6 scale(2 countries)

Oceania1.90-6 scale(2 countries)

Key Findings

•40 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 0-6 scale observation in the fixed 2020 slice.
•France has the highest published value (4.88889 0-6 scale).
•New Zealand has the lowest published value (0.833333 0-6 scale).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.80-6 scale)High (4.90-6 scale)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 2.90-6 scale)

Europe (24)

Asia (6)

North America (3)

Other (2)

Oceania (2)

South America (2)

Africa (1)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Environmental Policy Stringency Index: Policy stringency — All environmental policies (EPS index). Unit: 0-6 scale. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2020 OECD slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Environmental Policy Stringency Index: Policy stringency — All environmental policies (EPS index). Unit: 0-6 scale. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	France	4.90-6 scale
2	Switzerland	4.50-6 scale
3	Luxembourg	4.20-6 scale
4	Finland	4.10-6 scale
5	Norway	3.90-6 scale
6	Sweden	3.80-6 scale
7	Japan	3.80-6 scale
8	Denmark	3.70-6 scale
9	Italy	3.70-6 scale
10	United Kingdom	3.60-6 scale
11	Germany	3.50-6 scale
12	Netherlands	3.50-6 scale
13	Poland	3.50-6 scale
14	Belgium	3.40-6 scale
15	Austria	3.30-6 scale
16	Estonia	3.30-6 scale
17	Slovenia	3.20-6 scale
18	South Korea	3.20-6 scale
19	People's Republic of China	3.10-6 scale
20	Canada	3.00-6 scale
21	United States of America	3.00-6 scale
22	Ireland	3.00-6 scale
23	Czech Republic	2.90-6 scale
24	Australia	2.90-6 scale
25	Greece	2.90-6 scale
26	Türkiye	2.90-6 scale
27	India	2.80-6 scale
28	Hungary	2.80-6 scale
29	Portugal	2.80-6 scale
30	Slovakia	2.50-6 scale
31	Spain	2.50-6 scale
32	Chile	2.00-6 scale
33	Indonesia	1.60-6 scale
34	Mexico	1.60-6 scale
35	Russian Federation	1.20-6 scale
36	Israel	1.10-6 scale
37	Iceland	1.00-6 scale
38	South Africa	0.90-6 scale
39	Brazil	0.90-6 scale
40	New Zealand	0.80-6 scale

Showing 40 of 40 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2020).

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