Australia vs Canada: Citizen support for democracy

Australia
0.793
in 2020
Canada
0.8493
in 2020
Australia rank
23rd
Canada rank
21st

Citizen support for democracy over time

  • Australia
  • Canada
00.250.50.7511.2199520072020

How they compare

Canada currently reports 0.8493 against 0.793 in Australia, a difference of 0.0563.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 21 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 23rd and Canada ranks 21st of 144 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Citizen support for democracy
Source
Claassen (2022) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
144 places, 3,104 data points, 1988–2020
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the average extent to which citizens support a democratic political system and reject autocratic alternatives. It combines responses across more than one thousand nationally-representative surveys on how desirable citizens find democracy, how they evaluate undemocratic alternatives (such as a strong unelected leader, the army, or religious authorities), and how they assess democratic and autocratic political systems relative to another.