Barbados vs Philippines: Legislative Checks on Government Index

Barbados

0.727

in 2025

Philippines

0.726

in 2025

Barbados rank

64th

Philippines rank

65th

Legislative Checks on Government Index over time

Barbados
Philippines

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 0.727 against 0.726 in Philippines, a difference of 0.001.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 64th and Philippines ranks 65th of 174 countries.

Individual pages

Legislative Checks on Government Index in Barbados
Legislative Checks on Government Index in Philippines
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Legislative Checks on Government Index
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 174 places, 23,601 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Central estimate of the extent to which the legislature, including opposition parties, questions executive officials and oversees and investigates the executive.