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Luxembourg
Institutions and political conditions · 2025
#13of 179 places
−3.1points since 2015
80.1–88.7source-bound score area*
What the score says
Luxembourg scores 83.9 on the Democracys Standard. Its score was 87.0 in 2015, a fall of 3.1 points. The lowest-scoring dimension in 2025 is public participation (55.5).
What drove the change?
The score for Luxembourg fell 3.1 points, from 87.0 to 83.9 between 2015 and 2025. 1 of the five areas improved while 4 worsened, so the headline combines competing movements. Participation contributed the largest downward push in the score calculation.
This explains movement within the formula, not the causal effect of political events.
2024 context · Freedom House assessment
An information dispute tested government transparency
A journalist challenged the government’s refusal to release information about its support for the EU border agency. A separate bill aimed to improve journalists’ access to official information. The distinction matters: a proposed reform and a contested request reveal accountability questions, but do not establish that access has already improved in practice.
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 | 86.9 | −0.5 |
| Rights and checks on power | 89.3 | −1.5 |
| Public participation | 55.5 | −11.1 |
| Public reasoning | 97.1 | +0.6 |
| Political equality | 94.7 | −1.1 |
Dimension movements are not additive contributions to the overall score. The method also accounts for weak areas.
Three questions worth investigating
- Can people shape public life through civic groups, direct voting, and meaningful local and regional government?
- 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.