Barbados vs Portugal: Centralization of Political Power Index

Barbados
0.076
in 2025
Portugal
0.06
in 2025
Barbados rank
148th
Portugal rank
150th

Centralization of Political Power Index over time

  • Barbados
  • Portugal
00.20.40.60.8182019222025

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 0.076 against 0.06 in Portugal, a difference of 0.016.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.3 times Portugal's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Portugal ahead.

Barbados ranks 148th and Portugal ranks 150th of 173 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Centralization of Political Power Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 29,802 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of the extent to which the executive is unconstrained by the legislature, judiciary, electoral management body, and other oversight.