Sweden

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Sweden Compared to Continent

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Luxembourg	-5.93%
Poland	-3.77%
Italy	-2.85%
Cyprus	-2.75%
Moldova	-2.65%
Russia	-1.79%
Portugal	-0.99%
Ukraine	-0.04%
Estonia	0.05%
Sweden	0.53%
Switzerland	0.91%
Spain	1.27%
Finland	1.54%
Czech Rep.	1.56%
Lithuania	1.65%
Macedonia	1.72%
Ireland	1.76%
Germany	2.03%
Greece	2.11%
Croatia	2.49%
Norway	2.60%
UK	2.67%
Netherlands	2.94%
Austria	3.52%
Latvia	3.56%
Iceland	4.10%
Slovenia	4.93%
Belgium	4.94%
Hungary	6.67%
Malta	8.03%
Denmark	8.24%
Bulgaria	10.38%
France	10.46%
Albania	11.51%
Belarus	12.42%
Turkey	17.08%
Romania	21.55%
Bosnia & H.	32.31%

Sweden: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Sweden publishes excellent house price time-series. Statistics Sweden’s web-site is a treasure-trove of data, and each new approach the user makes seems to yield different housing time-series, both annual and quarterly, generated by the National Statistical Institute. The same site also publishes general economic data.