Austria vs Germany: Citizen support for democracy

Austria
1.78
in 2020
Germany
1.86
in 2020
Austria rank
10th
Germany rank
9th

Citizen support for democracy over time

  • Austria
  • Germany
00.511.52198820042020

How they compare

Germany currently reports 1.86 against 1.78 in Austria, a difference of 0.0851.

Across all 24 years both countries report, Germany has been ahead every year.

Austria ranks 10th and Germany ranks 9th 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.