Chile vs Switzerland: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Chile
1.97
in 2025
Switzerland
2.13
in 2025
Chile rank
9th
Switzerland rank
6th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Chile
  • Switzerland
-10123190019622025

How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 2.13 against 1.97 in Chile, a difference of 0.162.

That makes Switzerland's figure about 1.1 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Switzerland ahead.

Chile ranks 9th and Switzerland ranks 6th of 175 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Respect for Counterarguments Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
175 places, 20,802 data points, 1900–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which political elites acknowledge and respect counterarguments when considering important policy changes.