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Latvia vs Taiwan: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Latvia
1.03
in 2025
Taiwan
1.17
in 2025
Latvia rank
49th
Taiwan rank
46th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Latvia
  • Taiwan
-4-202190019622025

How they compare

Taiwan currently reports 1.17 against 1.03 in Latvia, a difference of 0.138.

That makes Taiwan's figure about 1.1 times Latvia's.

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

Latvia ranks 49th and Taiwan ranks 46th 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.