Botswana vs Cape Verde: Democracy

Botswana

in 2025

Cape Verde

in 2025

Botswana rank

42nd

Cape Verde rank

42nd

Democracy over time

Botswana
Cape Verde

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 6 against 6 in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Cape Verde ahead.

Botswana ranks 42nd and Cape Verde ranks 42nd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Botswana
Democracy in Cape Verde
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 29,594 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Political regime of a country using the Regimes of the World classification by political scientists Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg and Staffan Lindberg, including ambiguous categories.