Mauritania vs Uganda: Clientelism Index

Mauritania

0.72

in 2025

Uganda

0.733

in 2025

Mauritania rank

38th

Uganda rank

35th

Clientelism Index over time

Mauritania
Uganda

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 0.733 against 0.72 in Mauritania, a difference of 0.013.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 122 shared years of data; in 1904 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 38th and Uganda ranks 35th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Clientelism Index in Mauritania
Clientelism Index in Uganda
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.