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Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2011

2011, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's measure of government disinformation asks how often a government and its agents use social media to spread misleading views or false information to their own population, from never to on every key political issue. It is an expert-coded estimate on an open-ended scale centred near zero, and a higher figure means less disinformation.

Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2011 covers 176 countries. Belgium is highest, at 2.957; Azerbaijan is lowest, at -3.179. The middle country reads 0.347. Against 2010, 39 values changed (9 up, 30 down), 1 country joined.

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Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic) · Data for 2011

HighestBelgium

2.957

LowestAzerbaijan

-3.179

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2011, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2011: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.957
2LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.930
3GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.909
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.844
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.773
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.743
7LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.714
8PolandPOLEastern Europe2.682
9Costa RicaCRICentral America2.681
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.568
11IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.564
12SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.537
13PortugalPRTSouthern Europe2.446
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe2.420
15ChileCHLSouth America2.352
16UruguayURYSouth America2.271
17New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.097
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe2.076
19CzechiaCZEEastern Europe2.042
20São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.038
21United StatesUSANorthern America2.015
22SpainESPSouthern Europe1.938
23CanadaCANNorthern America1.872
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe1.850
25MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia1.844

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Belgium2.957
  2. 2Latvia2.930
  3. 3Germany2.909
  4. 4Estonia2.844
  5. 5Finland2.773

Lowest

  1. 176Azerbaijan-3.179
  2. 175Eritrea-2.816
  3. 174Cuba-2.726
  4. 173Syria-2.453
  5. 172Turkmenistan-2.236

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.347. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 39values changed, of 175 in both
  • 9 · 30rose · fell
  • 136unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ South Sudan

04Caveats

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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, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2011.

  • 172 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.493. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 countries has every column.

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2011). Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-disinformation/2011

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