Nepal vs Sri Lanka: Democracy

Nepal

in 2025

Sri Lanka

in 2025

Nepal rank

32nd

Sri Lanka rank

32nd

Democracy over time

Nepal
Sri Lanka

How they compare

Nepal currently reports 2 against 2 in Sri Lanka, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Sri Lanka ahead.

Nepal ranks 32nd and Sri Lanka ranks 32nd of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Democracy in Nepal
Democracy in Sri Lanka
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Democracy
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 29,594 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Identifies the political regime of a country by distinguishing between closed autocracies, electoral autocracies, electoral democracies, and liberal democracies.