Barbados vs Croatia: Clientelism Index

Barbados

0.28

in 2025

Croatia

0.252

in 2025

Barbados rank

131st

Croatia rank

133rd

Clientelism Index over time

Barbados
Croatia

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 0.28 against 0.252 in Croatia, a difference of 0.028.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.1 times Croatia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1941 it was Croatia ahead.

Barbados ranks 131st and Croatia ranks 133rd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Clientelism Index in Barbados
Clientelism Index in Croatia
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.