Finland vs Spain: Citizen support for democracy

Finland
1.6
in 2020
Spain
1.08
in 2020
Finland rank
11th
Spain rank
13th

Citizen support for democracy over time

  • Finland
  • Spain
0.50.7511.21.5198820042020

How they compare

Finland currently reports 1.6 against 1.08 in Spain, a difference of 0.5205.

That makes Finland's figure about 1.5 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Spain ahead.

Finland ranks 11th and Spain ranks 13th 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.