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Heng Swee Keat

Heng Swee Keat

🇸🇬Singapore

Rank #18
Score: 78
About Heng Swee Keat

Heng Swee Keat (b.1961) is a senior Singaporean technocrat and former Deputy Prime Minister (2019–2025) with an economics background. He has held finance and planning roles and is known for policy design on fiscal and economic questions.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Singapore HDI ≈ 0.9469/10
Source: UNDP — Human Development country insights (2023)
GDP per capita
Singapore GDP per capita (World Bank)9/10
Source: World Bank — Singapore country data (2023)
Gini coefficient
Singapore Gini (survey series)3/10
Source: World Bank — Gini (SGP) (2021)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio ≈ 65.7% (ILOSTAT)5/5
Source: ILOSTAT — Singapore (2024)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Singapore Partly Free ~47–484/10
Source: Freedom House — Singapore country report (2024)
Corruption index
Transparency Int'l — Singapore CPI ≈ 845/5
Source: Transparency International — Singapore CPI page (2024)

Derived Criminal Score
No public criminal convictions recorded20/20
Source: Public record / press (no convictions) (2025)