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Free and fair elections

Name: Free and fair elections by country, 2025
Creator: Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0); underlying sources incl. V-Dem
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· higher is better · 136 countries

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Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0); underlying sources incl. V-DemCC BY 4.0updated 2025

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136 countries · 2025

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Free and fair elections league table
#	Country		Region	Income
1	Trinidad and Tobago	10	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
2	Brazil	10	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
3	Chile	10	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
4	Latvia	10	Europe & Central Asia	High income
5	Estonia	10	Europe & Central Asia	High income
6	Taiwan	10	East Asia & Pacific	High income
7	Slovenia	10	Europe & Central Asia	High income
8	Czechia	10	Europe & Central Asia	High income
9	Lithuania	10	Europe & Central Asia	High income
10	Slovak Republic	10	Europe & Central Asia	High income
11	Costa Rica	10	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
12	Uruguay	10	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
13	Bolivia	9	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
14	Korea, Rep.	9	East Asia & Pacific	High income
15	Jamaica	9	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
16	Timor-Leste	9	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
17	Croatia	9	Europe & Central Asia	High income
18	Ghana	9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
19	Botswana	9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
20	South Africa	9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
21	Argentina	9	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
22	Mongolia	8	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
23	Mauritius	8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
24	Moldova	8	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
25	Ukraine	8	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
26	Lesotho	8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
27	Nepal	8	South Asia	Lower middle income
28	Armenia	8	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
29	North Macedonia	8	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
30	Peru	8	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
31	Poland	8	Europe & Central Asia	High income
32	Ecuador	8	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
33	Dominican Republic	8	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
34	Paraguay	8	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
35	Liberia	8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
36	Bhutan	8	South Asia	Lower middle income
37	Albania	8	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
38	Panama	8	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
39	Sri Lanka	8	South Asia	Upper middle income
40	Gambia, The	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
41	Honduras	7	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
42	India	7	South Asia	Lower middle income
43	Bulgaria	7	Europe & Central Asia	High income
44	Namibia	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
45	Iraq	7	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
46	Malaysia	7	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
47	Malawi	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
48	Philippines	7	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
49	Colombia	7	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
50	Senegal	7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
51	Mexico	7	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
52	Lebanon	6	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
53	Montenegro	6	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
54	Zambia	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
55	Indonesia	6	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
56	Sierra Leone	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
57	El Salvador	6	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
58	Guatemala	6	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
59	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
60	Hungary	6	Europe & Central Asia	High income
61	Kenya	6	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
62	Romania	6	Europe & Central Asia	High income
63	Nigeria	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
64	Papua New Guinea	5	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
65	Singapore	5	East Asia & Pacific	High income
66	Turkiye	5	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
67	Kyrgyz Republic	5	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
68	Cote d'Ivoire	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
69	Madagascar	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
70	Central African Republic	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
71	Georgia	5	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
72	Serbia	5	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
73	Benin	5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
74	Jordan	4	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
75	Iran, Islamic Rep.	4	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
76	Togo	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
77	Ethiopia	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
78	Guinea-Bissau	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
79	Algeria	4	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
80	Mauritania	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
81	Tanzania	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
82	Congo, Dem. Rep.	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
83	Pakistan	4	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
84	Angola	4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
85	Cameroon	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
86	Thailand	3	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
87	Morocco	3	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
88	Djibouti	3	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
89	Uganda	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
90	Zimbabwe	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
91	Mozambique	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
92	Burundi	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
93	Tunisia	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
94	Venezuela, RB	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
95	Congo, Rep.	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
96	Cambodia	2	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
97	Equatorial Guinea	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
98	Belarus	2	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
99	Kazakhstan	2	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
100	Viet Nam	2	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
101	Rwanda	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
102	Russian Federation	2	Europe & Central Asia	High income
103	Bahrain	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
104	Nicaragua	2	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
105	United Arab Emirates	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
106	Bangladesh	2	South Asia	Lower middle income
107	Azerbaijan	2	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
108	Chad	2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
109	Uzbekistan	2	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
110	Egypt, Arab Rep.	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
111	Oman	2	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
112	Cuba	1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
113	Eritrea	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
114	Haiti	1	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
115	Turkmenistan	1	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
116	Guinea	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
117	Tajikistan	1	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
118	Kuwait	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
119	Lao PDR	1	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
120	Libya	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
121	China	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
122	Syrian Arab Republic	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
123	Mali	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
124	Eswatini	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
125	Myanmar	1	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
126	South Sudan	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
127	Niger	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
128	Yemen, Rep.	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
129	Burkina Faso	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
130	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
131	Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	1	East Asia & Pacific	Low income
132	Qatar	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
133	Afghanistan	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
134	Saudi Arabia	1	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
135	Sudan	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
136	Gabon	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income

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