Chile vs Spain: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Chile

0.941

in 2025

Spain

0.937

in 2025

Chile rank

21st

Spain rank

23rd

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Chile
Spain

How they compare

Chile currently reports 0.941 against 0.937 in Spain, a difference of 0.004.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Spain ahead.

Chile ranks 21st and Spain ranks 23rd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Chile
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Spain
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.