Chile vs Niger: Citizen support for democracy

Chile

-0.1956

in 2020

Niger

-0.2359

in 2020

Chile rank

70th

Niger rank

71st

Citizen support for democracy over time

Chile
Niger

How they compare

Chile currently reports -0.1956 against -0.2359 in Niger, a difference of 0.0403.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 2013 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 70th and Niger ranks 71st 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: 07 August 2026

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.