Croatia vs Cyprus: Clientelism Index

Croatia

0.252

in 2025

Cyprus

0.232

in 2025

Croatia rank

133rd

Cyprus rank

135th

Clientelism Index over time

Croatia
Cyprus

How they compare

Croatia currently reports 0.252 against 0.232 in Cyprus, a difference of 0.02.

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

The two have swapped places 8 times across 39 shared years of data; in 1941 it was Croatia ahead.

Croatia ranks 133rd and Cyprus ranks 135th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Clientelism Index in Croatia
Clientelism Index in Cyprus
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.