Austria vs Costa Rica: Clientelism Index

Austria

0.105

in 2025

Costa Rica

0.129

in 2025

Austria rank

152nd

Costa Rica rank

149th

Clientelism Index over time

Austria
Costa Rica

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 0.129 against 0.105 in Austria, a difference of 0.024.

That makes Costa Rica's figure about 1.2 times Austria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 171 shared years of data; in 1848 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Austria ranks 152nd and Costa Rica ranks 149th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Clientelism Index in Austria
Clientelism Index in Costa Rica
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Clientelism Index
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 24,366 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Composite index measuring the extent to which politics hinge on clientelistic exchanges of targeted goods, jobs, or cash for electoral support; higher values denote more pervasive clientelism.