Japan vs Latvia: Media Corruption Score

Japan
2.13
in 2025
Latvia
2.35
in 2025
Japan rank
23rd
Latvia rank
21st

Media Corruption Score over time

  • Japan
  • Latvia
-10123190019622025

How they compare

Latvia currently reports 2.35 against 2.13 in Japan, a difference of 0.219.

That makes Latvia's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1920 it was Latvia ahead.

Japan ranks 23rd and Latvia ranks 21st of 175 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Media Corruption Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
175 places, 18,887 data points, 1900–2025
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Gauges the frequency with which journalists, publishers, or broadcasters accept payments to modify news content, indicating the integrity (or corruption) of the media sphere.