Iceland vs Suriname: Common Good Justifications Score

Iceland
1.5
in 2025
Suriname
1.55
in 2025
Iceland rank
34th
Suriname rank
32nd

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Iceland
  • Suriname
0.511.52190019622025

How they compare

Suriname currently reports 1.55 against 1.5 in Iceland, a difference of 0.043.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Iceland ahead.

Iceland ranks 34th and Suriname ranks 32nd 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.