Guyana vs Niger: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Guyana

0.668

in 2025

Niger

0.687

in 2025

Guyana rank

90th

Niger rank

87th

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Guyana
Niger

How they compare

Niger currently reports 0.687 against 0.668 in Guyana, a difference of 0.019.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 104 shared years of data; in 1922 it was Guyana ahead.

Guyana ranks 90th and Niger ranks 87th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Guyana
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Niger
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.