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Chad
Institutions and political conditions · 2025
#159of 179 places
−1.1points since 2015
15.9–28.4source-bound score area*
What the score says
Chad scores 23.2 on the Democracys Standard. Its score was 24.3 in 2015, a fall of 1.1 points. The lowest-scoring dimension in 2025 is rights and checks on power (11.4).
What drove the change?
The score for Chad fell 1.1 points, from 24.3 to 23.2 between 2015 and 2025. 2 of the five areas improved while 3 worsened, so the headline combines competing movements. Rights and checks contributed the largest downward push in the score calculation. The latest year moved in the opposite direction (+0.7), so the longer trend is not the whole story.
This explains movement within the formula, not the causal effect of political events.
2024 context · Freedom House assessment
An election consolidated the post-coup leadership
The presidential election confirmed the leader installed after the 2021 military takeover. The main challenger alleged fraud, and the Constitutional Council upheld the result. An election after a coup is not enough to establish democratic transition: meaningful competition, independent review, and freedom from intimidation remain separate tests.
Read the country report · Freedom in the World 2025AI-assisted source summary · not independently expert-reviewed
What this context does—and does not—explain
This is a selected development, not a complete political history. Its date may differ from the selected comparison period. It is not evidence that one event caused a particular number of points, and it may describe progress even when this index declines.
The scores use V-Dem. The narrative summarizes a separate assessment by Freedom House, whose definitions and coverage differ. Neither organization endorses this website. The summary is AI-assisted, source-linked, and has not received independent country-expert review. Source checked October 5, 2026.
Why democracy measures can disagree →Look beneath the headline
| Democracy test | 2025 | Since 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Free and fair elections | 24.2 | −3.7 |
| Rights and checks on power | 11.4 | −6.9 |
| Public participation | 33.7 | +5.5 |
| Public reasoning | 32.2 | +4.7 |
| Political equality | 18.5 | −2.1 |
Dimension movements are not additive contributions to the overall score. The method also accounts for weak areas.
Three questions worth investigating
- Are basic freedoms protected, laws applied fairly, courts independent, and leaders prevented from abusing power?
- Which documented changes in laws, institutions, or their implementation occurred during the period?
- What evidence challenges your explanation, and whose experience is missing?
Use primary records and country expertise. A change in an estimate alone does not identify its cause.
Read with care
This is an independent educational beta, not a V-Dem endorsement. Scores are not percentages of democracy or judgments about a people. Small differences may be within uncertainty. *The score area is obtained from source bounds; it is not a formal confidence interval for this composite or its change.