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• New job opportunities

• Saving resources

• Innovation support

• Increase in product or service variation

Disadvantages of the sharing economy

• Grey area / unfair competition

• Information asymmetry

• Externalities

• Monopolistic power of intermediaries

• Accountability issues

Statistics

The sharing economy index takes into consideration the following factors: ride-hailing services
(max. 25 points), flatsharing services (max. 25 points), e-scooters (max. 15 points), carsharing
apps (max. 30 points), gymsharing (max. 10 points).

The maximum value that can be reached is 105 and a total of 50 countries were involved. In 2021,
according to Statista, the friendliest countries for the sharing economy are Tallinn, the capital of
Estonia, and Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, with an index value of 100. The Scandinavian capitals,
as well as the Latin American cities of Sao Paulo and Mexico City, also ranked high.

Chart: 1 Cities most friendly to the sharing economy worldwide in 2021

Score
84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 100

Estonia, Tallinn 100
Georgia, Tbilisi 100
Brazil, Sao Paulo 95
95
Latvia, Riga
Country, City Lithuania, Vilnius 95
Poland, Warsaw
95
Ukraine, Kyiv
Mexico, Mexico City 90 95
Norway, Oslo 90
Sweden, Stockholm 90

Survey requested by the European Commission was carried out by TNS Political & Social network
in the 28 Member States of the European Union between the 15th and the 16th of March 2016.

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