Netherlands vs Spain: Political Polarization Score

Netherlands
-0.091
in 2025
Spain
-0.092
in 2025
Netherlands rank
95th
Spain rank
96th

Political Polarization Score over time

  • Netherlands
  • Spain
-2024190019622025

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports -0.091 against -0.092 in Spain, a difference of 0.001.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Spain ahead.

Netherlands ranks 95th and Spain ranks 96th 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.