Political Polarization

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

Every column in the newest file of Political Polarization: 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	—	172	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	172	0
Political polarization (latent scale; higher = more polarized)political_polarizationHeadline	The headline figure: Original latent estimate (≈ −3.8 to +3.9); higher = more polarized.	Number · up to 3 decimals	-2.974Oman3.682Myanmarmiddle 0.360	170	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 worse 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

   Political Polarization 2025

   V-Dem-CY-FullOthers-v16_csv.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 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 political-polarization-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/political-polarization

From the V-Dem Institute's Country-Year Full+Others dataset (v16), University of Gothenburg — this indicator is not in the smaller Core file — published under CC BY-SA 4.0. V-Dem's data runs back to 1900 for this question; the series here starts in 1990 so that every row belongs to a present-day country. Stored as the measurement model's original estimate, not V-Dem's 0–4 rescaling.

• Charted

  Political Polarization by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Democracy & Civil Liberties

• Near neighbours

  • V-Dem Electoral Democracy IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Rule of LawWorld Bank Group · 27 held · 1996–2025
  • Civic Space RatingsCIVICUS · 1 held · 2025