Lesotho vs Namibia: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Lesotho

0.82

in 2025

Namibia

0.811

in 2025

Lesotho rank

52nd

Namibia rank

54th

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Lesotho
Namibia

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 0.82 against 0.811 in Namibia, a difference of 0.009.

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

Lesotho ranks 52nd and Namibia ranks 54th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Lesotho
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Namibia
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.