Cuba vs Laos: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Cuba
-1.69
in 2025
Laos
-1.45
in 2025
Cuba rank
163rd
Laos rank
160th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Cuba
  • Laos
-3-2-1012190019622025

How they compare

Laos currently reports -1.45 against -1.69 in Cuba, a difference of 0.243.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 124 shared years of data; in 1902 it was Cuba ahead.

Cuba ranks 163rd and Laos ranks 160th 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.