Malaysia vs East Timor: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Malaysia
0.469
in 2025
East Timor
0.451
in 2025
Malaysia rank
90th
East Timor rank
92nd

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Malaysia
  • East Timor
-3-2-101190019622025

How they compare

Malaysia currently reports 0.469 against 0.451 in East Timor, a difference of 0.018.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was East Timor ahead.

Malaysia ranks 90th 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.