Civic Space Ratings

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: civic-space-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Civic Space Ratings: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	198	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	198	0
Civic space score (0–100)civic_space_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: Civic space score (0–100).	Number · up to 2 decimals	2.17North Korea100.00Kiribatimiddle 50.46	186	0
CIVICUS ratingcivic_space_ratingLabel	CIVICUS's rating of civic freedom, in one of five categories: open, narrowed, obstructed, repressed or closed.	Text	—	5	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

One year, covering 198 countries.

Not in this dataset · 27 places this site covers

CIVICUS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManMacauMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   CIVICUS

   monitor.civicus.org

2. 2 · Their file

   CIVICUS Monitor Civic Space Ratings 2025

   countries

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per year

   It downloads as a CSV: civic-space-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/civic-spaceA key for Democracy & Civil Liberties in the Country Index.

From the CIVICUS Monitor API. Each country carries a rating history, but it holds several entries per year minutes apart — working revisions rather than annual editions — so only the current rating is imported. Greenland has a rating but no score and is not included.