Japan vs South Korea: Electoral democracy
Japan
2
in 2025
South Korea
2
in 2025
Japan rank
1st
South Korea rank
1st
Electoral democracy over time
- Japan
- South Korea
How they compare
Japan currently reports 2 against 2 in South Korea, a difference of 0.
The two have swapped places 4 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was South Korea ahead.
Japan ranks 1st and South Korea ranks 1st of 176 countries.
Individual pages
About this data
Identifies the political regime of a country using the Regimes of the World classification by political scientists Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg and Staffan Lindberg.