Chile vs Netherlands: Free and Fair Elections Index

Chile

0.956

in 2025

Netherlands

0.954

in 2025

Chile rank

7th

Netherlands rank

9th

Free and Fair Elections Index over time

Chile
Netherlands

How they compare

Chile currently reports 0.956 against 0.954 in Netherlands, a difference of 0.002.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Netherlands ahead.

Chile ranks 7th and Netherlands ranks 9th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Free and Fair Elections Index in Chile
Free and Fair Elections Index in Netherlands
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.