Costa Rica vs Japan: Competitive elections

Costa Rica
1
in 2025
Japan
1
in 2025
Costa Rica rank
1st
Japan rank
1st

Competitive elections over time

  • Costa Rica
  • Japan
00.20.40.60.81178919072025

How they compare

Costa Rica currently reports 1 against 1 in Japan, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 188 shared years of data; in 1838 it was Japan ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 1st and Japan ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Competitive elections
Source
Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
198 places, 32,485 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Whether the outcomes of elections are uncertain because their timing is not violated, voters are not systematically coerced, and election fraud is not consequential.