Namibia vs Zambia: Democracy

Namibia

in 2025

Zambia

in 2025

Namibia rank

16th

Zambia rank

16th

Democracy over time

Namibia
Zambia

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 4 against 4 in Zambia, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 11 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Zambia ahead.

Namibia ranks 16th and Zambia ranks 16th of 128 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Namibia
Democracy in Zambia
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).