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Deliberative Democracy Index, 1994

1994, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's Deliberative Democracy Index asks how political decisions are reached: whether leaders justify their positions with public reasons about the common good, respect opposing arguments, and consult a wide range of people before acting — on top of genuine elections. It runs from 0 to 1, and a higher figure is more democratic.

Deliberative Democracy Index, 1994 covers 173 countries. Sweden is highest, at 0.883; Iraq is lowest, at 0.008. The middle country reads 0.303. Against 1993, 119 values changed (74 up, 45 down), the same countries are covered.

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Deliberative Democracy Index · Data for 1994

HighestSweden

0.883

LowestIraq

0.008

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Deliberative Democracy Index, 1994, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 173 countries · select a heading to sort

Deliberative Democracy Index, 1994: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.883
=2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.864
=2GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.864
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.853
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.852
6Costa RicaCRICentral America0.832
7United StatesUSANorthern America0.830
=8FranceFRAWestern Europe0.804
=8SpainESPSouthern Europe0.804
10AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.802
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.801
12LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.795
13BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.789
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.787
15ArgentinaARGSouth America0.775
=16CzechiaCZEEastern Europe0.768
=16PolandPOLEastern Europe0.768
=18AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.764
=18UruguayURYSouth America0.764
20ItalyITASouthern Europe0.759
21CanadaCANNorthern America0.754
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe0.752
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe0.749
=24ChileCHLSouth America0.739
=24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.739

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sweden0.883
  2. 2Germanyshared0.864
  3. 2Denmarkshared0.864
  4. 4Norway0.853
  5. 5Switzerland0.852

Lowest

  1. 173Iraq0.008
  2. 172Timor-Leste0.010
  3. 171North Korea0.011
  4. 170Syria0.021
  5. 169Libya0.023

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.303. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 173 in both
  • 74 · 45rose · fell
  • 54unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.

  • 153 distinct values among 173

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.864. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 173 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (1994). Deliberative Democracy Index, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/deliberative-democracy/1994

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