France vs Switzerland: Engaged Society Score

France
2.77
in 2025
Switzerland
3.52
in 2025
France rank
4th
Switzerland rank
1st

Engaged Society Score over time

  • France
  • Switzerland
-2024178919072025

How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 3.52 against 2.77 in France, a difference of 0.755.

That makes Switzerland's figure about 1.3 times France's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 228 shared years of data; in 1798 it was France ahead.

France ranks 4th and Switzerland ranks 1st of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Engaged Society Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,403 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which ordinary people independently discuss important policy changes among themselves, in the media, in associations or neighborhoods, or in the streets.