Myanmar vs USSR: Democracy

Myanmar
2
in 2018
USSR
1
in 1991
Myanmar rank
1st
USSR rank
1st

Democracy over time

  • Myanmar
  • USSR
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How they compare

Myanmar currently reports 2 against 1 in USSR, a difference of 1.

That makes Myanmar's figure about 2.0 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 44 shared years of data; in 1948 it was Myanmar ahead.

Myanmar ranks 1st and USSR ranks 1st of 167 countries.

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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

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).