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Military Dimension Index, 2006

2006, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's Military Dimension Index asks how far a country's chief executive owes their position to the armed forces: whether they took office through a coup, a rebellion or appointment by the military, and whether the military could remove them. It runs from 0 to 1; a higher figure means a larger military role, and most countries read exactly 0.

Military Dimension Index, 2006 covers 175 countries. Mauritania is highest, at 0.938; 58 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 0.088. Against 2005, 14 values changed (4 up, 10 down), the same countries are covered.

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Military Dimension Index · Data for 2006

HighestMauritania

0.938

Lowest58 countries share it

0.000

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

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Military Dimension Index, 2006, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 175 countries · select a heading to sort

Military Dimension Index, 2006: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa0.938
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia0.896
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.625
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa0.571
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa0.500
QatarQATWestern Asia0.500
GuineaGINWestern Africa0.450
EcuadorECUSouth America0.423
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.423
GabonGABMiddle Africa0.417
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia0.417
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa0.400
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa0.385
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa0.375
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.364
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia0.357
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa0.350
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa0.350
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.348
TogoTGOWestern Africa0.333
YemenYEMWestern Asia0.333
BurundiBDIEastern Africa0.321
GuatemalaGTMCentral America0.318
MaliMLIWestern Africa0.318
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.300

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mauritania0.938
  2. Myanmar0.896
  3. Turkmenistan0.625
  4. Libya0.571
  5. Central African Republicshared0.500

Lowest

  1. Kosovoshared0.000
  2. Vietnamshared0.000
  3. United Statesshared0.000
  4. Ukraineshared0.000
  5. Taiwanshared0.000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.088. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 14values changed, of 175 in both
  • 4 · 10rose · fell
  • 161unchanged

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 2006.

  • 69 distinct values among 175

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 58 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 175 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 (2006). Military Dimension Index, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/military-dimension/2006

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