Chile vs Denmark: Legislative Checks on Government Index

Chile

0.976

in 2025

Denmark

0.977

in 2025

Chile rank

5th

Denmark rank

4th

Legislative Checks on Government Index over time

Chile
Denmark

How they compare

Denmark currently reports 0.977 against 0.976 in Chile, a difference of 0.001.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 171 shared years of data; in 1835 it was Denmark ahead.

Chile ranks 5th and Denmark ranks 4th of 174 countries.

Individual pages

Legislative Checks on Government Index in Chile
Legislative Checks on Government Index in Denmark
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.