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Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration, 2018

2018, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's measure of meritocratic appointment asks whether people are hired, promoted and fired in a country's civil service on the strength of their skills and merit, or through personal and political connections. It is an expert-coded estimate on an open-ended scale centred near zero, and a higher figure means more appointments on merit.

Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration, 2018 covers 176 countries. Singapore is highest, at 3.447; Eritrea is lowest, at -2.150. The middle country reads 0.396. Against 2017, 29 values changed (15 up, 14 down), the same countries are covered.

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Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration · Data for 2018

HighestSingapore

3.447

LowestEritrea

-2.150

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration, 2018, 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

Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration, 2018: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia3.447
2LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe2.773
3EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.768
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.691
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand2.427
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe2.357
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.323
8SpainESPSouthern Europe2.222
9GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.152
10New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand2.149
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.148
12South KoreaKOREastern Asia2.141
13Hong KongHKGEastern Asia2.117
14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.051
15FranceFRAWestern Europe1.985
16LatviaLVANorthern Europe1.969
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.959
18BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.847
19IsraelISRWestern Asia1.844
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.843
21UruguayURYSouth America1.804
22JapanJPNEastern Asia1.737
23PortugalPRTSouthern Europe1.727
24TaiwanTWNEastern Asia1.721
25CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.682

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore3.447
  2. 2Luxembourg2.773
  3. 3Estonia2.768
  4. 4Denmark2.691
  5. 5Australia2.427

Lowest

  1. 176Eritrea-2.150
  2. 175Syria-1.986
  3. 174South Sudan-1.909
  4. 173Tajikistan-1.907
  5. 172Equatorial Guinea-1.898

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.396. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 29values changed, of 176 in both
  • 15 · 14rose · fell
  • 147unchanged

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 2018.

  • 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 (2018). Meritocratic Appointment in the State Administration, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/meritocratic-appointment/2018

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