Madagascar vs Niger: Strong Elected Local Governments Index

Madagascar
0.683
in 2025
Niger
0.692
in 2025
Madagascar rank
109th
Niger rank
108th

Strong Elected Local Governments Index over time

  • Madagascar
  • Niger
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How they compare

Niger currently reports 0.692 against 0.683 in Madagascar, a difference of 0.009.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 104 shared years of data; in 1922 it was Madagascar ahead.

Madagascar ranks 109th and Niger ranks 108th 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.