Congo vs Rwanda: Democracy

Congo

in 2025

Rwanda

in 2025

Congo rank

94th

Rwanda rank

94th

Democracy over time

Congo
Rwanda

How they compare

Congo currently reports 3 against 3 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 110 shared years of data; in 1916 it was Rwanda ahead.

Congo ranks 94th and Rwanda ranks 94th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Congo
Democracy in Rwanda
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.