Madagascar vs New Zealand: Common Good Justifications Score

Madagascar
-0.097
in 2025
New Zealand
-0.006
in 2025
Madagascar rank
133rd
New Zealand rank
131st

Common Good Justifications Score over time

  • Madagascar
  • New Zealand
00.511.52190019622025

How they compare

New Zealand currently reports -0.006 against -0.097 in Madagascar, a difference of 0.091.

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

Madagascar ranks 133rd and New Zealand ranks 131st 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.