Japan vs Romania: Democracy

Japan
7
in 2025
Romania
7
in 2025
Japan rank
1st
Romania rank
1st

Democracy over time

  • Japan
  • Romania
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How they compare

Japan currently reports 7 against 7 in Romania, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Romania ahead.

Japan ranks 1st and Romania ranks 1st of 197 countries.

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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

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).