Physical Violence Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: physical-violence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Physical Violence Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	176	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	176	0
Freedom from political killings and torture (0–1)physical_violenceHeadline	The headline figure: Freedom from political killings and torture (0–1).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.053North Korea0.9892 share itmiddle 0.790	159	0
Freedom from political killings (0–4)freedom_from_killingsMeasure	Expert-coded freedom from political killings by the state or its agents, on a 0–4 scale where higher means such killings are rarer.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.164Chad3.958Cyprusmiddle 3.262	166	0
Freedom from torture (0–4)freedom_from_tortureMeasure	Expert-coded freedom from torture by the state or its agents, on a 0–4 scale where higher means torture is rarer.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.145North Korea3.929Icelandmiddle 2.724	173	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 36 years.

Not in this dataset · 49 places this site covers

V-Dem Institute gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamIsle of ManKiribatiLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSint MaartenTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg

   v-dem.net

2. 2 · Their file

   Physical Violence Index 2025

   V-Dem-CY-Core-v16_csv.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 11, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   36 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as physical-violence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/physical-violenceA key for Peace & Security in the Country Index.

From the V-Dem Country-Year Core dataset, the same download behind the democracy indices on this site. Expert-coded and fitted with V-Dem’s measurement model, so every figure carries uncertainty V-Dem publishes separately.