Chile vs Guatemala: Democracy

Chile

in 2018

Guatemala

in 2018

Chile rank

1st

Guatemala rank

1st

Democracy over time

Chile
Guatemala

How they compare

Chile currently reports 2 against 2 in Guatemala, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 180 shared years of data; in 1839 it was Guatemala ahead.

Chile ranks 1st and Guatemala ranks 1st of 167 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Chile
Democracy in Guatemala
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: Polity 5 (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 168 places, 18,392 data points, 1776–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Identifies the political regime of a country using the Polity 5 data by the Center for Systemic Peace. It distinguishes between autocracies (score 0), anocracies (score 1), and democracies (score 2).