Botswana vs Malawi: Free and fair elections

Botswana
1
in 2025
Malawi
1
in 2025
Botswana rank
1st
Malawi rank
1st

Free and fair elections over time

  • Botswana
  • Malawi
00.20.40.60.81196119932025

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 1 against 1 in Malawi, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Malawi ahead.

Botswana ranks 1st and Malawi ranks 1st of 172 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Free and fair elections
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
172 places, 17,000 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of whether national elections were free and fair or not.