Japan vs Liberia: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Japan
2.7
in 2025
Liberia
2.27
in 2025
Japan rank
3rd
Liberia rank
5th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Japan
  • Liberia
-2-10123190019622025

How they compare

Japan currently reports 2.7 against 2.27 in Liberia, a difference of 0.434.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.2 times Liberia's.

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

Japan ranks 3rd and Liberia ranks 5th 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.