Canada vs Spain: Legislative Checks on Government Index

Canada

0.845

in 2025

Spain

0.839

in 2025

Canada rank

41st

Spain rank

43rd

Legislative Checks on Government Index over time

Canada
Spain

How they compare

Canada currently reports 0.845 against 0.839 in Spain, a difference of 0.006.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 174 shared years of data; in 1841 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 41st and Spain ranks 43rd of 174 countries.

Individual pages

Legislative Checks on Government Index in Canada
Legislative Checks on Government Index in Spain
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.