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Institutional trust

South Africa · Liberal democracy index (V-Dem)

Index from the V-Dem Institute (University of Gothenburg), from 0 to 1: it combines the right to vote, free and fair elections, freedoms of expression and association, individual rights, equality before the law, and judicial and legislative checks on the executive. It rests mainly on the ratings of several thousand country experts, aggregated by a statistical model: it is an expert judgement, not a direct measurement, and a gap of a few hundredths between two countries or two years is not significant.· Expert judgement aggregated by a model, not a direct measurement; V-Dem dataset under CC BY-SA 4.0
0.63score
2025
−2.3 %vs 2024
min 0.09 1961max 0.67 2012
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Source: Our World in Data, V-Dem Institute · Democracy Report (via Our World in Data)· Data 2025Source type : Research
Expert assessment from 0 to 1 of elections, freedoms, the rule of law and checks on the executiveExpert judgement aggregated by a model, not a direct measurement; V-Dem dataset under CC BY-SA 4.0Upd. 03/2026
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