Barbados vs Uruguay: Political Polarization Score

Barbados
-1.78
in 2024
Uruguay
-1.81
in 2025
Barbados rank
163rd
Uruguay rank
164th

Political Polarization Score over time

  • Barbados
  • Uruguay
-4-202190019622025

How they compare

Barbados currently reports -1.78 against -1.81 in Uruguay, a difference of 0.029.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 125 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Uruguay ahead.

Barbados ranks 163rd and Uruguay ranks 164th of 174 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Political Polarization Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
174 places, 20,575 data points, 1900–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which society is divided into hostile political camps, where political differences undermine social relationships and discourage interaction across ideological lines.