2025 score
Compare political systems
Compare democracy
across countries.
Put three national trajectories side by side, then look beneath the headline score to see which democratic dimensions differ.
SCORE HISTORY
1975–20252025 DIMENSIONS
0–100Free and fair elections
Rights and checks on power
Public participation
Public reasoning
Political equality
Scores are estimates of political systems in a specific year, not judgments about a country’s people or culture.
Comparison without false equivalence
The same measurement model is applied to each place and year, but historical context, state formation, conflict, and data uncertainty differ. Use these lines to find questions—not to substitute a number for country knowledge.