Lebanon vs East Timor: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Lebanon
0.422
in 2025
East Timor
0.451
in 2025
Lebanon rank
93rd
East Timor rank
92nd

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Lebanon
  • East Timor
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

East Timor currently reports 0.451 against 0.422 in Lebanon, a difference of 0.029.

That makes East Timor's figure about 1.1 times Lebanon's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 108 shared years of data; in 1918 it was Lebanon ahead.

Lebanon ranks 93rd and East Timor ranks 92nd 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.