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Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2025

2025, 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), 2025 covers 176 countries. Latvia is highest, at 2.930; South Sudan is lowest, at -3.392. The middle country reads -0.114. Against 2024, 75 values changed (37 up, 38 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic) · Data for 2025

HighestLatvia

2.930

LowestSouth Sudan

-3.392

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), 2025, 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), 2025: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.930
2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.743
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.558
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.534
5SwedenSWENorthern Europe2.531
6AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2.393
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.366
8SeychellesSYCEastern Africa2.319
9BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.316
10VanuatuVUTMelanesia2.307
11EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.223
12JamaicaJAMCaribbean2.092
13IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.053
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.030
15UruguayURYSouth America2.003
16PortugalPRTSouthern Europe2.001
17BotswanaBWASouthern Africa1.953
18PolandPOLEastern Europe1.949
19Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia1.896
20BrazilBRASouth America1.882
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.873
22GambiaGMBWestern Africa1.859
23SpainESPSouthern Europe1.610
24Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean1.596
25PanamaPANCentral America1.587

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Latvia2.930
  2. 2Denmark2.743
  3. 3Norway2.558
  4. 4Switzerland2.534
  5. 5Sweden2.531

Lowest

  1. 176South Sudan-3.392
  2. 175Belarus-3.299
  3. 174Venezuela-3.189
  4. 173Azerbaijan-3.033
  5. 172Nicaragua-2.786

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads -0.114. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 75values changed, of 176 in both
  • 37 · 38rose · fell
  • 101unchanged

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 2025.

  • 173 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share -0.664. 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 (2025). Government Dissemination of False Information (Domestic), 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/government-disinformation/2025

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