Namibia vs USSR: Democracy

Namibia

in 2018

USSR

in 1991

Namibia rank

1st

USSR rank

1st

Democracy over time

Namibia
USSR

How they compare

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

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

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

Individual pages

Democracy in Namibia
Democracy in USSR
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).