Chile vs Germany: Democracy

Chile

in 2025

Germany

in 2025

Chile rank

1st

Germany rank

1st

Democracy over time

Chile
Germany

How they compare

Chile currently reports 7 against 7 in Germany, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 114 shared years of data; in 1867 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 1st and Germany ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Chile
Democracy in Germany
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 198 places, 32,485 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Identifies the political regime of a country. It distinguishes between non-electoral autocracies (score 0), one-party autocracies (score 1), multi-party autocracies without elected executive (score 2), multi-party autocracies (score 3), exclusive democracies (score 4), male democracies (score 5), electoral democracies (score 6), and full democracies (score 7).