Lithuania vs USSR: Distribution of Democracy Index

Lithuania
20
in 2018
USSR
10
in 1991
Lithuania rank
1st
USSR rank
1st

Distribution of Democracy Index over time

  • Lithuania
  • USSR
05101520191819682018

How they compare

Lithuania currently reports 20 against 10 in USSR, a difference of 10.

That makes Lithuania's figure about 2.0 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 70 shared years of data; in 1922 it was Lithuania ahead.

Lithuania ranks 1st and USSR ranks 1st of 167 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Distribution of Democracy Index
Source
Polity 5 (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
168 places, 18,366 data points, 1800–2018
Last refreshed

It combines information on the extent to which open, multi-party, and competitive elections choose a chief executive who faces comprehensive institutional constraints, and political participation is competitive. It ranges from 0 to 20 (fully democratic).