Eswatini vs Madagascar: Centralization of Political Power Index

Eswatini
0.694
in 2025
Madagascar
0.733
in 2025
Eswatini rank
52nd
Madagascar rank
50th

Centralization of Political Power Index over time

  • Eswatini
  • Madagascar
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How they compare

Madagascar currently reports 0.733 against 0.694 in Eswatini, a difference of 0.039.

That makes Madagascar's figure about 1.1 times Eswatini's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Eswatini ahead.

Eswatini ranks 52nd and Madagascar ranks 50th 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.