Cape Verde vs Lesotho: Common Good Justifications Score

Cape Verde
1.84
in 2025
Lesotho
2
in 2025
Cape Verde rank
20th
Lesotho rank
17th

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Lesotho
-2-1012190019622025

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 2 against 1.84 in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.158.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Cape Verde's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Lesotho ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 20th and Lesotho ranks 17th of 175 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Common Good Justifications Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
175 places, 20,802 data points, 1900–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which political elites justify their views with the common good for society, either the greatest good for the greatest number of people or as helping the least advantaged people in society when considering important policy changes.