India vs Malaysia: Common Good Justifications Score

India
0.9
in 2025
Malaysia
0.882
in 2025
India rank
75th
Malaysia rank
77th

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • India
  • Malaysia
-2-1012190019622025

How they compare

India currently reports 0.9 against 0.882 in Malaysia, a difference of 0.018.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was India ahead.

India ranks 75th and Malaysia ranks 77th 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.