Chile vs Germany: Legislative Checks on Government Index

Chile

0.976

in 2025

Germany

0.981

in 2025

Chile rank

5th

Germany rank

3rd

Legislative Checks on Government Index over time

Chile
Germany

How they compare

Germany currently reports 0.981 against 0.976 in Chile, a difference of 0.005.

The two have swapped places 15 times across 166 shared years of data; in 1811 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 5th and Germany ranks 3rd of 174 countries.

Individual pages

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