Malaysia vs Nigeria: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Malaysia
0.469
in 2025
Nigeria
0.515
in 2025
Malaysia rank
90th
Nigeria rank
87th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Malaysia
  • Nigeria
-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 0.515 against 0.469 in Malaysia, a difference of 0.046.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.1 times Malaysia's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 112 shared years of data; in 1914 it was Nigeria ahead.

Malaysia ranks 90th and Nigeria ranks 87th 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.