Austria vs Germany: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Austria

0.916

in 2025

Germany

0.934

in 2025

Austria rank

27th

Germany rank

24th

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Austria
Germany

How they compare

Germany currently reports 0.934 against 0.916 in Austria, a difference of 0.018.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 184 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Germany ahead.

Austria ranks 27th and Germany ranks 24th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Austria
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Germany
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.