Lesotho vs Nigeria: Political Polarization Score

Lesotho
-0.518
in 2025
Nigeria
-0.594
in 2025
Lesotho rank
114th
Nigeria rank
117th

Political Polarization Score over time

  • Lesotho
  • Nigeria
-2-1.5-1-0.500.5190019622025

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports -0.518 against -0.594 in Nigeria, a difference of 0.076.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 112 shared years of data; in 1914 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 114th and Nigeria ranks 117th 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.