Japan vs Luxembourg: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Japan
2.7
in 2025
Luxembourg
2.9
in 2025
Japan rank
3rd
Luxembourg rank
2nd

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Japan
  • Luxembourg
-2024190019622025

How they compare

Luxembourg currently reports 2.9 against 2.7 in Japan, a difference of 0.203.

That makes Luxembourg's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

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

Japan ranks 3rd and Luxembourg ranks 2nd 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
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Central estimate of the extent to which political elites acknowledge and respect counterarguments when considering important policy changes.