Namibia vs South Africa: Transparent laws

Namibia
1
in 2025
South Africa
1
in 2025
Namibia rank
1st
South Africa rank
1st

Transparent laws over time

  • Namibia
  • South Africa
00.20.40.60.81190019622025

How they compare

Namibia currently reports 1 against 1 in South Africa, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was South Africa ahead.

Namibia ranks 1st and South Africa ranks 1st of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Transparent laws
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,229 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of whether laws are transparent, coherent, and relatively stable, and their enforcement predictable.