Ethiopia vs Myanmar: Strong Elected Local Governments Index

Ethiopia
0.181
in 2025
Myanmar
0.216
in 2024
Ethiopia rank
140th
Myanmar rank
138th

Strong Elected Local Governments Index over time

  • Ethiopia
  • Myanmar
00.10.20.30.4178919072025

How they compare

Myanmar currently reports 0.216 against 0.181 in Ethiopia, a difference of 0.035.

That makes Myanmar's figure about 1.2 times Ethiopia's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 125 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 140th and Myanmar ranks 138th 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.