Denmark vs Uruguay: Common Good Justifications Score

Denmark
2.65
in 2025
Uruguay
2.95
in 2025
Denmark rank
3rd
Uruguay rank
1st

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Denmark
  • Uruguay
-10123190019622025

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 2.95 against 2.65 in Denmark, a difference of 0.303.

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

The two have swapped places 1 time across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 3rd and Uruguay ranks 1st 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.