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Botswana vs Guyana: Strong Elected Local Governments Index

Botswana
0.565
in 2025
Guyana
0.593
in 2025
Botswana rank
117th
Guyana rank
116th

Strong Elected Local Governments Index over time

  • Botswana
  • Guyana
00.20.40.60.81190019622025

How they compare

Guyana currently reports 0.593 against 0.565 in Botswana, a difference of 0.028.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Guyana ahead.

Botswana ranks 117th and Guyana ranks 116th of 175 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Strong Elected Local Governments Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
175 places, 25,933 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of the extent to which elected local governments exist, and they operate without interference from local unelected bodies.