Germany vs Malta: Common Good Justifications Score

Germany
1.8
in 2025
Malta
1.81
in 2025
Germany rank
22nd
Malta rank
21st

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Germany
  • Malta
-1012190019622025

How they compare

Malta currently reports 1.81 against 1.8 in Germany, a difference of 0.01.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 80 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Malta ahead.

Germany ranks 22nd and Malta ranks 21st 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.