Guatemala vs Maldives: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Guatemala
0.489
in 2025
Maldives
0.53
in 2025
Guatemala rank
88th
Maldives rank
86th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Guatemala
  • Maldives
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Maldives currently reports 0.53 against 0.489 in Guatemala, a difference of 0.041.

That makes Maldives's figure about 1.1 times Guatemala's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Maldives ahead.

Guatemala ranks 88th and Maldives ranks 86th 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.