Canada vs Vanuatu: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Canada

0.898

in 2025

Vanuatu

0.911

in 2025

Canada rank

30th

Vanuatu rank

29th

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Canada
Vanuatu

How they compare

Vanuatu currently reports 0.911 against 0.898 in Canada, a difference of 0.013.

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

Canada ranks 30th and Vanuatu ranks 29th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Canada
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Vanuatu
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.