Benin vs Maldives: Free and Fair Elections Index

Benin
0.638
in 2025
Maldives
0.643
in 2025
Benin rank
77th
Maldives rank
75th

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

  • Benin
  • Maldives
00.20.40.60.8190019622025

How they compare

Maldives currently reports 0.643 against 0.638 in Benin, a difference of 0.005.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Maldives ahead.

Benin ranks 77th and Maldives ranks 75th 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
Last refreshed

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.