Chile vs Uruguay: Democracy

Chile
8
in 2025
Uruguay
8
in 2025
Chile rank
23rd
Uruguay rank
23rd

Democracy over time

  • Chile
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Chile currently reports 8 against 8 in Uruguay, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 198 shared years of data; in 1825 it was Uruguay ahead.

Chile ranks 23rd and Uruguay ranks 23rd of 176 countries.

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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

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.