Botswana vs Nepal: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Botswana

0.748

in 2025

Nepal

0.764

in 2025

Botswana rank

70th

Nepal rank

67th

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Botswana
Nepal

How they compare

Nepal currently reports 0.764 against 0.748 in Botswana, a difference of 0.016.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 70th and Nepal ranks 67th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Botswana
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Nepal
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.