France vs Iceland: Respect for Counterarguments Score

France
1.44
in 2025
Iceland
1.37
in 2025
France rank
30th
Iceland rank
33rd

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • France
  • Iceland
-2-1012190019622025

How they compare

France currently reports 1.44 against 1.37 in Iceland, a difference of 0.075.

That makes France's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

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

France ranks 30th and Iceland ranks 33rd 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.