Region
Western Europe
Global Rank
3/129
Regional Rank
2/19
Score
7.940
Switzerland’s IPRI score decreased by -0.208 to 7.94 placing it 2st in the Western Europe region and 3th in the world. Switzerland is classified by the IMF as part of the Advanced economies group and by the World Bank as High income country.
Switzerland’s Legal and Political Subindex decreased by -0.069 to 8.496 with scores of 8.701 in Judicial Independence, 8.656 in Rule of Law, 7.471 in Political Stability, and 9.158 in Control of Corruption.
Switzerland’s Physical Property Rights Subindex decreased by -0.555 to 7.825 with scores of 9.04 in perception of Property Rights Protection, data wasn't available to measure Registering Process, and 6.61 in Access to Financing.
Switzerland’s Intellectual Property Rights Subindex did not change and remained at 7.499 with scores of 8.825 in perception of Intellectual Property Protection, 6.468 in Patent Protection, 7.9 in Copyright Protection, and 6.804 in Trademark Protection.
Switzerland is a member of the following regional integration agreements
- OECD
- EFTA
Switzerland - IPRI Overall Score
Switzerland - IPRI Overall Score
- 1: IPRI
- 2: Legal and Political Subindex
- 3. Judicial Independence
- 4. Rule of Law
- 5. Control of Corruption
- 6. Political Stability
- 7. Physical Property Rights Subindex
- 8. Property Rights Protection
- 9. Registering Property
- 10. Ease of Access to Loans
- 11. Intellectual Property Rights Subindex
- 12. Intellectual Property Rights
- 13. Patent Protection
- 14. Copyright Protection
- 15. Trademark Protection
Switzerland - IPRI Overall Score
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 8.001 | 9 | 7 | 2007 |
| Overall | 8.000 | 9 | 7 | 2008 |
| Overall | 8.248 | 8 | 7 | 2009 |
| Overall | 8.294 | 6 | 6 | 2010 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 5 | 4 | 2011 |
| Overall | 8.300 | 5 | 4 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 6 | 4 | 2013 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 5 | 4 | 2014 |
| Overall | 8.050 | 6 | 4 | 2015 |
| Overall | 8.161 | 5 | 4 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.561 | 4 | 3 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.618 | 3 | 2 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.571 | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.530 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Overall | 8.148 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Overall | 7.940 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legal and Political | 8.418 | 2 | 1 | 2007 |
| Legal and Political | 8.400 | 4 | 2 | 2008 |
| Legal and Political | 8.785 | 3 | 3 | 2009 |
| Legal and Political | 8.670 | 5 | 4 | 2010 |
| Legal and Political | 8.500 | 7 | 4 | 2011 |
| Legal and Political | 8.600 | 6 | 4 | 2012 |
| Legal and Political | 8.500 | 7 | 6 | 2013 |
| Legal and Political | 8.725 | 4 | 3 | 2014 |
| Legal and Political | 8.510 | 5 | 4 | 2015 |
| Legal and Political | 8.673 | 4 | 3 | 2016 |
| Legal and Political | 8.772 | 4 | 3 | 2017 |
| Legal and Political | 8.734 | 4 | 3 | 2018 |
| Legal and Political | 8.602 | 3 | 2 | 2019 |
| Legal and Political | 8.621 | 3 | 2 | 2020 |
| Legal and Political | 8.565 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Legal and Political | 8.496 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Physical | 7.753 | 10 | 7 | 2007 |
| Physical | 7.800 | 10 | 7 | 2008 |
| Physical | 7.960 | 10 | 7 | 2009 |
| Physical | 7.890 | 10 | 7 | 2010 |
| Physical | 7.800 | 9 | 5 | 2011 |
| Physical | 7.900 | 6 | 4 | 2012 |
| Physical | 7.900 | 7 | 4 | 2013 |
| Physical | 7.933 | 8 | 6 | 2014 |
| Physical | 7.504 | 11 | 5 | 2015 |
| Physical | 7.558 | 12 | 5 | 2016 |
| Physical | 8.508 | 5 | 3 | 2017 |
| Physical | 8.426 | 4 | 2 | 2018 |
| Physical | 8.424 | 3 | 1 | 2019 |
| Physical | 8.366 | 4 | 1 | 2020 |
| Physical | 8.380 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Physical | 7.825 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Intellectual | 7.832 | 12 | 10 | 2007 |
| Intellectual | 7.800 | 13 | 10 | 2008 |
| Intellectual | 7.998 | 12 | 9 | 2009 |
| Intellectual | 8.322 | 5 | 3 | 2010 |
| Intellectual | 8.300 | 5 | 5 | 2011 |
| Intellectual | 8.300 | 4 | 4 | 2012 |
| Intellectual | 8.300 | 6 | 3 | 2013 |
| Intellectual | 8.200 | 12 | 8 | 2014 |
| Intellectual | 8.138 | 7 | 5 | 2015 |
| Intellectual | 8.251 | 7 | 5 | 2016 |
| Intellectual | 8.404 | 9 | 7 | 2017 |
| Intellectual | 8.694 | 3 | 2 | 2018 |
| Intellectual | 8.688 | 3 | 2 | 2019 |
| Intellectual | 8.603 | 5 | 2 | 2020 |
| Intellectual | 7.499 | 4 | 2 | 2021 |
| Intellectual | 7.499 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
Switzerland - Legal and Political Environment
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 8.418 | 2 | 1 | 2007 |
| Overall | 8.400 | 4 | 2 | 2008 |
| Overall | 8.785 | 3 | 3 | 2009 |
| Overall | 8.670 | 5 | 4 | 2010 |
| Overall | 8.500 | 7 | 4 | 2011 |
| Overall | 8.600 | 6 | 4 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.500 | 7 | 6 | 2013 |
| Overall | 8.725 | 4 | 3 | 2014 |
| Overall | 8.510 | 5 | 4 | 2015 |
| Overall | 8.673 | 4 | 3 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.772 | 4 | 3 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.734 | 4 | 3 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.602 | 3 | 2 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.621 | 3 | 2 | 2020 |
| Overall | 8.565 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Overall | 8.496 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.634 | 9 | 6 | 2007 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.600 | 10 | 7 | 2008 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.833 | 7 | 5 | 2009 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.183 | 7 | 6 | 2010 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.100 | 5 | 3 | 2011 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.100 | 6 | 5 | 2012 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.000 | 5 | 3 | 2013 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.700 | 11 | 8 | 2014 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.450 | 11 | 7 | 2015 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.794 | 6 | 4 | 2016 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.132 | 4 | 3 | 2017 |
| Judicial Independence | 9.191 | 4 | 3 | 2018 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.940 | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.701 | 4 | 3 | 2020 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.701 | 4 | 3 | 2021 |
| Judicial Independence | 8.701 | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rule of Law | No Data | No Data | 2007 | |
| Rule of Law | No Data | No Data | 2008 | |
| Rule of Law | 9.020 | 1 | 1 | 2009 |
| Rule of Law | 8.730 | 7 | 7 | 2010 |
| Rule of Law | 8.500 | 11 | 8 | 2011 |
| Rule of Law | 8.600 | 7 | 7 | 2012 |
| Rule of Law | 8.500 | 12 | 8 | 2013 |
| Rule of Law | 8.600 | 8 | 7 | 2014 |
| Rule of Law | 8.581 | 8 | 7 | 2015 |
| Rule of Law | 9.032 | 5 | 4 | 2016 |
| Rule of Law | 8.932 | 6 | 5 | 2017 |
| Rule of Law | 8.871 | 4 | 4 | 2018 |
| Rule of Law | 8.855 | 4 | 4 | 2019 |
| Rule of Law | 8.862 | 3 | 3 | 2020 |
| Rule of Law | 8.813 | 3 | 3 | 2021 |
| Rule of Law | 8.656 | 6 | 4 | 2022 |
| Political Stability | 7.520 | 2 | 2 | 2007 |
| Political Stability | 7.500 | 2 | 2 | 2008 |
| Political Stability | 7.780 | 4 | 4 | 2009 |
| Political Stability | 7.456 | 7 | 6 | 2010 |
| Political Stability | 7.400 | 5 | 3 | 2011 |
| Political Stability | 7.500 | 5 | 4 | 2012 |
| Political Stability | 7.600 | 5 | 4 | 2013 |
| Political Stability | 7.800 | 2 | 1 | 2014 |
| Political Stability | 7.745 | 2 | 1 | 2015 |
| Political Stability | 7.489 | 5 | 4 | 2016 |
| Political Stability | 7.684 | 3 | 2 | 2017 |
| Political Stability | 7.774 | 5 | 3 | 2018 |
| Political Stability | 7.635 | 6 | 4 | 2019 |
| Political Stability | 7.901 | 5 | 3 | 2020 |
| Political Stability | 7.792 | 5 | 3 | 2021 |
| Political Stability | 7.471 | 6 | 4 | 2022 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.100 | 6 | 4 | 2007 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.100 | 6 | 4 | 2008 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.507 | 6 | 5 | 2009 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.309 | 8 | 6 | 2010 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.000 | 10 | 6 | 2011 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.100 | 11 | 5 | 2012 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.000 | 10 | 7 | 2013 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.300 | 8 | 5 | 2014 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.261 | 6 | 5 | 2015 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.378 | 4 | 3 | 2016 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.338 | 6 | 5 | 2017 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.101 | 8 | 6 | 2018 |
| Control of Corruption | 8.977 | 7 | 5 | 2019 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.019 | 8 | 6 | 2020 |
| Control of Corruption | 8.955 | 9 | 7 | 2021 |
| Control of Corruption | 9.158 | 7 | 5 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
Switzerland - Physical Property Rights
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 7.753 | 10 | 7 | 2007 |
| Overall | 7.800 | 10 | 7 | 2008 |
| Overall | 7.960 | 10 | 7 | 2009 |
| Overall | 7.890 | 10 | 7 | 2010 |
| Overall | 7.800 | 9 | 5 | 2011 |
| Overall | 7.900 | 6 | 4 | 2012 |
| Overall | 7.900 | 7 | 4 | 2013 |
| Overall | 7.933 | 8 | 6 | 2014 |
| Overall | 7.504 | 11 | 5 | 2015 |
| Overall | 7.558 | 12 | 5 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.508 | 5 | 3 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.426 | 4 | 2 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.424 | 3 | 1 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.366 | 4 | 1 | 2020 |
| Overall | 8.380 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Overall | 7.825 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.282 | 3 | 3 | 2007 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.300 | 2 | 3 | 2008 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.333 | 3 | 3 | 2009 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.433 | 1 | 1 | 2010 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.200 | 1 | 1 | 2011 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.200 | 2 | 2 | 2012 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.200 | 1 | 1 | 2013 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.900 | 3 | 2 | 2014 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.727 | 3 | 2 | 2015 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 8.891 | 2 | 2 | 2016 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.153 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.234 | 2 | 2 | 2018 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.227 | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.040 | 2 | 2 | 2020 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.040 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Perception of Physical Property Protection | 9.040 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Registering Process | 8.049 | 13 | 7 | 2007 |
| Registering Process | 8.000 | 13 | 7 | 2008 |
| Registering Process | 8.879 | 17 | 7 | 2009 |
| Registering Process | 8.986 | 23 | 7 | 2010 |
| Registering Process | 9.100 | 27 | 6 | 2011 |
| Registering Process | 9.200 | 22 | 8 | 2012 |
| Registering Process | 9.200 | 26 | 9 | 2013 |
| Registering Process | 9.100 | 17 | 9 | 2014 |
| Registering Process | 9.479 | 34 | 9 | 2015 |
| Registering Process | 9.477 | 36 | 9 | 2016 |
| Registering Process | 9.456 | 28 | 9 | 2017 |
| Registering Process | 9.479 | 36 | 9 | 2018 |
| Registering Process | 9.479 | 38 | 9 | 2019 |
| Registering Process | 9.491 | 38 | 9 | 2020 |
| Registering Process | 9.491 | 38 | 9 | 2021 |
| Registering Process | No Data | No Data | 2022 | |
| Access to Financing | 5.926 | 17 | 9 | 2007 |
| Access to Financing | 5.900 | 17 | 9 | 2008 |
| Access to Financing | 5.667 | 22 | 10 | 2009 |
| Access to Financing | 5.250 | 32 | 11 | 2010 |
| Access to Financing | 5.200 | 21 | 8 | 2011 |
| Access to Financing | 5.300 | 21 | 8 | 2012 |
| Access to Financing | 5.200 | 26 | 8 | 2013 |
| Access to Financing | 5.200 | 18 | 6 | 2014 |
| Access to Financing | 4.305 | 27 | 7 | 2015 |
| Access to Financing | 4.305 | 26 | 7 | 2016 |
| Access to Financing | 6.917 | 13 | 5 | 2017 |
| Access to Financing | 6.567 | 17 | 6 | 2018 |
| Access to Financing | 6.567 | 17 | 6 | 2019 |
| Access to Financing | 6.567 | 17 | 6 | 2020 |
| Access to Financing | 6.610 | 10 | 3 | 2021 |
| Access to Financing | 6.610 | 10 | 3 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
Switzerland - Intellectual Property Rights
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 7.832 | 12 | 10 | 2007 |
| Overall | 7.800 | 13 | 10 | 2008 |
| Overall | 7.998 | 12 | 9 | 2009 |
| Overall | 8.322 | 5 | 3 | 2010 |
| Overall | 8.300 | 5 | 5 | 2011 |
| Overall | 8.300 | 4 | 4 | 2012 |
| Overall | 8.300 | 6 | 3 | 2013 |
| Overall | 8.200 | 12 | 8 | 2014 |
| Overall | 8.138 | 7 | 5 | 2015 |
| Overall | 8.251 | 7 | 5 | 2016 |
| Overall | 8.404 | 9 | 7 | 2017 |
| Overall | 8.694 | 3 | 2 | 2018 |
| Overall | 8.688 | 3 | 2 | 2019 |
| Overall | 8.603 | 5 | 2 | 2020 |
| Overall | 7.499 | 4 | 2 | 2021 |
| Overall | 7.499 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.958 | 3 | 3 | 2007 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 9.000 | 3 | 3 | 2008 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.833 | 3 | 4 | 2009 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.800 | 2 | 1 | 2010 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.600 | 4 | 3 | 2011 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.700 | 3 | 2 | 2012 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.600 | 4 | 2 | 2013 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.500 | 4 | 3 | 2014 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.398 | 4 | 3 | 2015 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.738 | 3 | 3 | 2016 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 9.096 | 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 9.300 | 1 | 1 | 2018 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 9.082 | 2 | 2 | 2019 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.825 | 3 | 2 | 2020 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.825 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| Perception of IP Protection | 8.825 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Patent Protection | 8.095 | 17 | 12 | 2007 |
| Patent Protection | 8.100 | 16 | 12 | 2008 |
| Patent Protection | 8.660 | 21 | 13 | 2009 |
| Patent Protection | 8.667 | 19 | 13 | 2010 |
| Patent Protection | 8.700 | 20 | 13 | 2011 |
| Patent Protection | 8.700 | 21 | 13 | 2012 |
| Patent Protection | 8.700 | 18 | 13 | 2013 |
| Patent Protection | 8.400 | 26 | 16 | 2014 |
| Patent Protection | 8.417 | 27 | 16 | 2015 |
| Patent Protection | 8.417 | 25 | 16 | 2016 |
| Patent Protection | 8.417 | 27 | 16 | 2017 |
| Patent Protection | 9.083 | 10 | 5 | 2018 |
| Patent Protection | 9.083 | 9 | 5 | 2019 |
| Patent Protection | 9.083 | 10 | 5 | 2020 |
| Patent Protection | 6.468 | 32 | 15 | 2021 |
| Patent Protection | 6.468 | 33 | 15 | 2022 |
| Copyright Protection | 6.673 | 5 | 2 | 2007 |
| Copyright Protection | 6.700 | 6 | 2 | 2008 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.500 | 9 | 6 | 2009 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.500 | 6 | 5 | 2010 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.500 | 8 | 5 | 2011 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.400 | 10 | 7 | 2012 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.500 | 12 | 7 | 2013 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.500 | 10 | 7 | 2014 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.600 | 9 | 6 | 2015 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.600 | 11 | 6 | 2016 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.700 | 13 | 9 | 2017 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.700 | 13 | 9 | 2018 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.900 | 10 | 6 | 2019 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.900 | 10 | 6 | 2020 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.900 | 10 | 6 | 2021 |
| Copyright Protection | 7.900 | 11 | 6 | 2022 |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2007 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2008 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2009 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2010 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2011 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2012 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2013 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2014 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2015 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2016 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2017 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2018 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2019 | |
| Trademark Protection | No Data | No Data | 2020 | |
| Trademark Protection | 6.804 | 17 | 8 | 2021 |
| Trademark Protection | 6.804 | 17 | 8 | 2022 |
| Statistic | Score | Global | Region | Year |