Botswana vs Maldives: Centralization of Political Power Index

Botswana
0.251
in 2025
Maldives
0.262
in 2025
Botswana rank
99th
Maldives rank
96th

Centralization of Political Power Index over time

  • Botswana
  • Maldives
00.20.40.60.81190019622025

How they compare

Maldives currently reports 0.262 against 0.251 in Botswana, a difference of 0.011.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Maldives ahead.

Botswana ranks 99th and Maldives ranks 96th 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
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which the executive is unconstrained by the legislature, judiciary, electoral management body, and other oversight.