Statizoid

Botswana vs South Africa: Revised Combined Polity Score

Botswana
8
in 2011
South Africa
9
in 2011
Botswana rank
5th
South Africa rank
3rd

Revised Combined Polity Score over time

  • Botswana
  • South Africa
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How they compare

South Africa currently reports 9 against 8 in Botswana, a difference of 1.

That makes South Africa's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 46 shared years of data; in 1966 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 5th and South Africa ranks 3rd of 51 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Revised Combined Polity Score
Source
Authoritarian regime"" in Western political discourse is a pejorative term for some very diverse kinds of political systems whose common properties are a lack of regularized political competition and
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
51 places, 2,425 data points, 1960–2011
Last refreshed

Revised Combined Polity Score is a modified version of the POLITY variable added in order to facilitate the use of the POLITY regime measure in time-series analyses.