Japan vs Netherlands: Common Good Justifications Score

Japan
1.05
in 2025
Netherlands
1.06
in 2025
Japan rank
68th
Netherlands rank
66th

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Japan
  • Netherlands
00.511.52190019622025

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 1.06 against 1.05 in Japan, a difference of 0.012.

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

Japan ranks 68th and Netherlands ranks 66th 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.