Austria vs Japan: Free and Fair Elections Index

Austria
0.938
in 2025
Japan
0.937
in 2025
Austria rank
25th
Japan rank
27th

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

  • Austria
  • Japan
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How they compare

Austria currently reports 0.938 against 0.937 in Japan, a difference of 0.001.

The two have swapped places 23 times across 231 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Japan ahead.

Austria ranks 25th and Japan ranks 27th 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.