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Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020

2020, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020 covers 176 countries. Germany is highest, at 3.990; South Sudan is lowest, at -2.774. The middle country reads 0.415. Against 2019, 95 values changed (51 up, 44 down), the same countries are covered.

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Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration · Data for 2020

HighestGermany

3.990

LowestSouth Sudan

-2.774

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020, 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

Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe3.990
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe3.627
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe3.581
4United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe3.344
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand3.324
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe3.319
7LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe3.120
8New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.883
9BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.850
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.792
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.764
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2.726
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.712
14Costa RicaCRICentral America2.646
15TaiwanTWNEastern Asia2.632
16FranceFRAWestern Europe2.597
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.492
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.485
19SpainESPSouthern Europe2.287
20BeninBENWestern Africa2.271
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe2.251
22SeychellesSYCEastern Africa2.210
23NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.205
24NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa2.196
25UruguayURYSouth America2.079

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany3.990
  2. 2Sweden3.627
  3. 3Switzerland3.581
  4. 4United Kingdom3.344
  5. 5Australia3.324

Lowest

  1. 176South Sudan-2.774
  2. 175Chad-2.768
  3. 174Venezuela-2.688
  4. 173Libya-2.679
  5. 172Syria-2.273

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.415. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 95values changed, of 176 in both
  • 51 · 44rose · fell
  • 81unchanged

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.

The site’s method

  • 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 2020.

  • 172 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.405. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 176 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. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2020). Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/impartial-public-administration/2020

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07Questions

Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest impartial public administration in Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020?

Germany, at 3.990, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020 cover?

176.

Where can I download Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2020 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration, 2025.

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