Germany vs Spain: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Germany

0.934

in 2025

Spain

0.937

in 2025

Germany rank

24th

Spain rank

23rd

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Germany
Spain

How they compare

Spain currently reports 0.937 against 0.934 in Germany, a difference of 0.003.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 191 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 24th and Spain ranks 23rd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Germany
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.