Rwanda vs Uganda: Democracy

Rwanda

in 2025

Uganda

in 2025

Rwanda rank

94th

Uganda rank

94th

Democracy over time

Rwanda
Uganda

How they compare

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

The two have swapped places 4 times across 110 shared years of data; in 1916 it was Uganda ahead.

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

Individual pages

Democracy in Rwanda
Democracy in Uganda
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.