Israel vs Namibia: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Israel
0.689
in 2025
Namibia
0.635
in 2025
Israel rank
72nd
Namibia rank
75th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Israel
  • Namibia
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Israel currently reports 0.689 against 0.635 in Namibia, a difference of 0.054.

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

The two have swapped places 7 times across 98 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Namibia ahead.

Israel ranks 72nd and Namibia ranks 75th 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.