Chile vs Uruguay: Common Good Justifications Score

Chile

2.69

in 2025

Uruguay

2.95

in 2025

Chile rank

2nd

Uruguay rank

1st

Common Good Justifications Score over time

Chile
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 2.95 against 2.69 in Chile, a difference of 0.26.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Uruguay ahead.

Chile ranks 2nd and Uruguay ranks 1st of 175 countries.

Individual pages

Common Good Justifications Score in Chile
Common Good Justifications Score in Uruguay
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.