Bhutan vs Lesotho: Democracy

Bhutan

in 2025

Lesotho

in 2025

Bhutan rank

16th

Lesotho rank

16th

Democracy over time

Bhutan
Lesotho

How they compare

Bhutan currently reports 4 against 4 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 9 shared years of data; in 2009 it was Lesotho ahead.

Bhutan ranks 16th and Lesotho ranks 16th of 128 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Bhutan
Democracy in Lesotho
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: Bertelsmann Transformation Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 128 places, 1,394 data points, 2005–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Identifies the political regime of a country. It distinguishes between hard-line autocracies (score 1), moderate autocracies (score 2), highly defective democracies (score 3), defective democracies (score 4), and consolidating democracies (score 5).