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Participatory Democracy Index, 2013

2013, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

V-Dem's Participatory Democracy Index asks how far citizens take part in politics beyond electing representatives — through civil society organisations, referendums and citizens' initiatives, and elected local and regional government — while also requiring genuine national elections. It runs from 0 to 1, and a higher figure is more democratic.

Participatory Democracy Index, 2013 covers 176 countries. Switzerland is highest, at 0.808; Eritrea is lowest, at 0.010. The middle country reads 0.327. Against 2012, 163 values changed (60 up, 103 down), the same countries are covered.

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Participatory Democracy Index · Data for 2013

HighestSwitzerland

0.808

LowestEritrea

0.010

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Participatory Democracy Index, 2013, 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

Participatory Democracy Index, 2013: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.808
2UruguayURYSouth America0.777
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe0.711
4Costa RicaCRICentral America0.691
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand0.690
6SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe0.685
7ItalyITASouthern Europe0.677
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe0.670
9AustriaAUTWestern Europe0.661
10LatviaLVANorthern Europe0.660
11United StatesUSANorthern America0.657
12BelgiumBELWestern Europe0.651
=13FranceFRAWestern Europe0.648
=13NorwayNORNorthern Europe0.648
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe0.647
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe0.645
17SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe0.643
=18PolandPOLEastern Europe0.638
=18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe0.638
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe0.637
21IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.636
22BrazilBRASouth America0.633
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe0.630
=24FinlandFINNorthern Europe0.627
=24LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.627

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Switzerland0.808
  2. 2Uruguay0.777
  3. 3Denmark0.711
  4. 4Costa Rica0.691
  5. 5New Zealand0.690

Lowest

  1. 176Eritrea0.010
  2. 175Saudi Arabia0.022
  3. 173Qatarshared0.025
  4. 173United Arab Emiratesshared0.025
  5. 172Turkmenistan0.031

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.327. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 176 in both
  • 60 · 103rose · fell
  • 13unchanged

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 2013.

  • 157 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.648. 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 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 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (2013). Participatory Democracy Index, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/participatory-democracy/2013

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