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Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 2000

2000, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index asks whether a government respects the constitution, obeys court rulings, and faces judges — at the highest court and below — who decide independently of it. It runs from 0 to 1, and a higher figure means the executive is more firmly bound by the courts.

Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 2000 covers 174 countries. Australia is highest, at 0.990; North Korea is lowest, at 0.004. The middle country reads 0.647. Against 1999, 66 values changed (38 up, 28 down), the same countries are covered.

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Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index · Data for 2000

HighestAustralia

0.990

LowestNorth Korea

0.004

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 2000, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 2000: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand0.990
2DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.988
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.987
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.984
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.974
6SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.973
=7FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.968
=7SpainESPSouthern Europe0.968
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe0.964
10PolandPOLEastern Europe0.960
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe0.955
12United StatesUSANorthern America0.954
13EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.953
=14GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.952
=14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.952
16Costa RicaCRICentral America0.950
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe0.949
18FranceFRAWestern Europe0.944
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.942
20ChileCHLSouth America0.940
21CanadaCANNorthern America0.936
22BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.933
23Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa0.920
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.917
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.914

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia0.990
  2. 2Denmark0.988
  3. 3Switzerland0.987
  4. 4Norway0.984
  5. 5New Zealand0.974

Lowest

  1. 174North Korea0.004
  2. 173Uzbekistan0.016
  3. 172Sudan0.021
  4. 171Turkmenistan0.029
  5. 170Myanmar0.037

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.647. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 174 in both
  • 38 · 28rose · fell
  • 108unchanged

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 2000.

  • 162 distinct values among 174

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.968. 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 174 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 (2000). Judicial Constraints on the Executive Index, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/judicial-constraints/2000

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