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Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2023

2023, 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), 2023 covers 176 countries. Czechia is highest, at 3.206; Venezuela is lowest, at -3.189. The middle country reads -0.101. Against 2022, 91 values changed (36 up, 55 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic) · Data for 2023

HighestCzechia

3.206

LowestVenezuela

-3.189

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), 2023, 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), 2023: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1CzechiaCZEEastern Europe3.206
2LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.930
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.743
4LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.630
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.558
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.534
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe2.531
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.366
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa2.319
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.316
11EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.223
12New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.097
13UruguayURYSouth America2.093
14JamaicaJAMCaribbean2.092
15PortugalPRTSouthern Europe2.068
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.053
17São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa2.038
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.030
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2.020
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.941
21Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia1.896
22MoldovaMDAEastern Europe1.823
=23BrazilBRASouth America1.645
=23ItalyITASouthern Europe1.645
25SpainESPSouthern Europe1.610

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Czechia3.206
  2. 2Latvia2.930
  3. 3Denmark2.743
  4. 4Lithuania2.630
  5. 5Norway2.558

Lowest

  1. 176Venezuela-3.189
  2. 175Russia-3.166
  3. 174Eritrea-3.043
  4. 173Azerbaijan-3.033
  5. 172Nicaragua-2.786

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads -0.101. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 91values changed, of 176 in both
  • 36 · 55rose · fell
  • 85unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2023.

  • 174 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.645. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (2023). Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-disinformation/2023

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