Botswana vs Romania: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Botswana

0.748

in 2025

Romania

0.745

in 2025

Botswana rank

70th

Romania rank

72nd

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Botswana
Romania

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 0.748 against 0.745 in Romania, a difference of 0.003.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 70th and Romania ranks 72nd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

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