Finland vs Syria: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Finland
1.03
in 2025
Syria
1.14
in 2025
Finland rank
49th
Syria rank
47th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Finland
  • Syria
-3-2-1012190019622025

How they compare

Syria currently reports 1.14 against 1.03 in Finland, a difference of 0.106.

That makes Syria's figure about 1.1 times Finland's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 124 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Finland ahead.

Finland ranks 49th and Syria ranks 47th 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.