Israel vs Lesotho: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Israel
0.689
in 2025
Lesotho
0.653
in 2025
Israel rank
72nd
Lesotho rank
74th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Israel
  • Lesotho
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Israel currently reports 0.689 against 0.653 in Lesotho, a difference of 0.036.

That makes Israel's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 98 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Lesotho ahead.

Israel ranks 72nd and Lesotho ranks 74th 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.