Cape Verde vs Panama: Free and Fair Elections Index

Cape Verde

0.836

in 2025

Panama

0.84

in 2025

Cape Verde rank

54th

Panama rank

52nd

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

Cape Verde
Panama

How they compare

Panama currently reports 0.84 against 0.836 in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.004.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 123 shared years of data; in 1903 it was Panama ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 54th and Panama ranks 52nd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Free and Fair Elections Index in Cape Verde
Free and Fair Elections Index in Panama
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.