China vs Seychelles: Strong Elected Local Governments Index

China
0.135
in 2025
Seychelles
0.086
in 2025
China rank
148th
Seychelles rank
151st

Strong Elected Local Governments Index over time

  • China
  • Seychelles
00.050.10.15190019622025

How they compare

China currently reports 0.135 against 0.086 in Seychelles, a difference of 0.049.

That makes China's figure about 1.6 times Seychelles's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 123 shared years of data; in 1903 it was China ahead.

China ranks 148th and Seychelles ranks 151st 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.