Austria vs Lesotho: Meaningful democratic electoral institutions

Austria
1
in 2025
Lesotho
1
in 2025
Austria rank
1st
Lesotho rank
1st

Meaningful democratic electoral institutions over time

  • Austria
  • Lesotho
00.20.40.60.81178919072025

How they compare

Austria currently reports 1 against 1 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 120 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Lesotho ahead.

Austria ranks 1st and Lesotho ranks 1st of 176 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Meaningful democratic electoral institutions
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 29,649 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of whether the country is meaningfully an electoral democracy. This includes the extent to which political leaders are elected under comprehensive suffrage in free and fair elections, and freedoms of association and expression are guaranteed.