Austria vs Canada: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Austria

0.916

in 2025

Canada

0.898

in 2025

Austria rank

27th

Canada rank

30th

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Austria
Canada

How they compare

Austria currently reports 0.916 against 0.898 in Canada, a difference of 0.018.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 178 shared years of data; in 1841 it was Canada ahead.

Austria ranks 27th and Canada ranks 30th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Austria
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Canada
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Judicial Checks on Government Index
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 29,297 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Central estimate of the extent to which the executive respects the constitution, complies with the judiciary and high courts, and higher and lower courts are independent.