Botswana vs Cape Verde: Free and Fair Elections Index

Botswana

0.803

in 2025

Cape Verde

0.836

in 2025

Botswana rank

57th

Cape Verde rank

54th

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

Botswana
Cape Verde

How they compare

Cape Verde currently reports 0.836 against 0.803 in Botswana, a difference of 0.033.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Cape Verde ahead.

Botswana ranks 57th and Cape Verde ranks 54th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Free and Fair Elections Index in Botswana
Free and Fair Elections Index in Cape Verde
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.