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France vs Japan: Strong Elected Local Governments Index

France
0.988
in 2025
Japan
0.991
in 2025
France rank
14th
Japan rank
11th

Strong Elected Local Governments Index over time

  • France
  • Japan
0.20.40.60.81183219282025

How they compare

Japan currently reports 0.991 against 0.988 in France, a difference of 0.003.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 138 shared years of data; in 1888 it was France ahead.

France ranks 14th and Japan ranks 11th 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.