Statizoid

Maldives vs United States: Respect for Counterarguments Score

Maldives
0.53
in 2025
United States
0.532
in 2025
Maldives rank
86th
United States rank
84th

Respect for Counterarguments Score over time

  • Maldives
  • United States
-2-1012190019622025

How they compare

United States currently reports 0.532 against 0.53 in Maldives, a difference of 0.002.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was United States ahead.

Maldives ranks 86th and United States ranks 84th 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.