Haiti vs Madagascar: Clientelism Index

Haiti

0.877

in 2025

Madagascar

0.867

in 2025

Haiti rank

9th

Madagascar rank

11th

Clientelism Index over time

Haiti
Madagascar

How they compare

Haiti currently reports 0.877 against 0.867 in Madagascar, a difference of 0.01.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 209 shared years of data; in 1817 it was Haiti ahead.

Haiti ranks 9th and Madagascar ranks 11th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Clientelism Index in Haiti
Clientelism Index in Madagascar
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.