South Korea vs Maldives: Free and fair elections

South Korea
1
in 2025
Maldives
1
in 2025
South Korea rank
1st
Maldives rank
1st

Free and fair elections over time

  • South Korea
  • Maldives
00.20.40.60.81194819862025

How they compare

South Korea currently reports 1 against 1 in Maldives, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Maldives ahead.

South Korea ranks 1st and Maldives 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.