Costa Rica vs Greece: Common Good Justifications Score

Costa Rica
2.04
in 2025
Greece
2.01
in 2025
Costa Rica rank
15th
Greece rank
16th

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Greece
-10123190019622025

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 2.04 against 2.01 in Greece, a difference of 0.025.

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

Costa Rica ranks 15th and Greece ranks 16th 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
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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.