Australia vs Belgium: Free and Fair Elections Index

Australia
0.962
in 2025
Belgium
0.968
in 2025
Australia rank
3rd
Belgium rank
1st

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

  • Australia
  • Belgium
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How they compare

Belgium currently reports 0.968 against 0.962 in Australia, a difference of 0.006.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Belgium ahead.

Australia ranks 3rd and Belgium ranks 1st of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Free and Fair Elections Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,402 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of the extent to which registration fraud, systematic irregularities, government intimidation of the opposition, vote buying, and election violence are absent, and the election management body is autonomous and has enough staff and resources.