The Statecraft Blueprint

Executive Orders: Count vs. Structural Weight, 1969–2026

Annual executive order count and mean structural weight score per order, 1969–2026. 2026 is a partial year and shown as provisional.

Executive orders per year — count (left axis)
Mean structural weight per order — % (right axis)
2026 shown provisional (partial year)
8%
average mean structural weight
per order, 1970s
38%
mean structural weight per order,
2025 — the high point of the series
238
executive orders issued in 2025 —
the largest single-year count in the series
43
executive orders in 2026
(provisional — partial year)

Source: EO Structural Weight corpus (The Statecraft Blueprint), pre-registered scoring methodology blind-coded and validated against Mayer & Price (2002), AUC = 0.7836. Count axis uses a square-root scale so the 2025 count doesn't compress the visibility of other years; exact values on hover. Full data and methodology: sources.md  |  Raw data: data.csv