Political rights rating fh, per square kilometre by country

Political rights rating fh divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
196
Highest
1.44 units per square kilometre
Monaco
Lowest
0 units per square kilometre
Canada
Median
0 units per square kilometre
Years covered
52
1972–2023
Data points
9,006

What the numbers show

Political rights rating fh, per square kilometre is currently reported for 196 countries. The highest value is 1.44 units per square kilometre in Monaco; the lowest is 0 units per square kilometre in Canada.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0087 units per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 82 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Hungary (up 197.6%), and the largest decrease in Latvia (down 50.0%).

Political rights rating fh, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Monaco 1.44 units per square kilometre 2023 up 45.9% falling
2 Nauru 0.1 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% falling
3 Tuvalu 0.0333 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
4 San Marino 0.0167 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
5 Maldives 0.0134 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% flat
6 Liechtenstein 0.0125 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% volatile
7 Bahrain 0.0088 units per square kilometre 2023 up 12.3% rising
8 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0077 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% rising
9 Malta 0.0063 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% flat
10 Hong Kong 0.0057 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
11 Singapore 0.0056 units per square kilometre 2023 down 1.5% falling
12 Marshall Islands 0.0056 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
13 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0045 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
14 Seychelles 0.0043 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
15 Grenada 0.0029 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
16 Tonga 0.0028 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
17 Comoros 0.0027 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% falling
18 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0026 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
19 Barbados 0.0023 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
20 Palau 0.0022 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
21 Andorra 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
22 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0021 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
23 Saint Lucia 0.0016 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
24 Micronesia (country) 0.0014 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
25 Dominica 0.0013 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
26 Kiribati 0.0012 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
27 Brunei 0.0011 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
28 Mauritius 0.001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% falling
29 Palestine 0.001 units per square kilometre 1995 up 20.0% rising
30 Samoa 0.0007 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.8% falling
31 Qatar 0.0005 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% rising
32 Lebanon 0.0005 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
33 Eswatini 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
34 Gambia 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% rising
35 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
36 Luxembourg 0.0004 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
37 Djibouti 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
38 Kuwait 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
39 Burundi 0.0003 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.0% falling
40 Equatorial Guinea 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
41 Cape Verde 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
42 Rwanda 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
43 Montenegro 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
44 Haiti 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.0% falling
45 El Salvador 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% falling
46 Jamaica 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
47 Guinea-Bissau 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% falling
48 Fiji 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% rising
49 Vanuatu 0.0002 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
50 Armenia 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 19.2% rising
51 East Timor 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
52 North Macedonia 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
53 Puerto Rico 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2015 unchanged falling
54 Albania 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
55 Cyprus 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
56 Solomon Islands 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.0% rising
57 Bahamas 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
58 United Arab Emirates 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
59 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% falling
60 Israel 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% falling
61 Togo 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% falling
62 Moldova 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% falling
63 Belize 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% rising
64 Azerbaijan 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
65 Jordan 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% flat
66 Cuba 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.4% rising
67 Lesotho 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
68 Sri Lanka 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 18.9% rising
69 Dominican Republic 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.3% rising
70 Nicaragua 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 75.0% rising
71 North Korea 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
72 Eritrea 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% falling
73 Georgia 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% falling
74 Bhutan 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.4% falling
75 Tajikistan 0.0001 units per square kilometre 2023 up 17.7% rising
76 Slovenia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% falling
77 Serbia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 108.0% rising
78 Guatemala 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% flat
79 Sierra Leone 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
80 Cambodia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% falling
81 Bangladesh 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.9% falling
82 Syria 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
83 Kyrgyzstan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.0% rising
84 Honduras 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
85 Croatia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% volatile
86 Benin 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% volatile
87 Belarus 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% rising
88 Hungary 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 197.6% volatile
89 Belgium 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.5% flat
90 Tunisia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% falling
91 Malawi 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
92 Laos 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
93 Uganda 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
94 Netherlands 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% flat
95 Gabon 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
96 Panama 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% volatile
97 Burkina Faso 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.0% falling
98 Switzerland 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% flat
99 Denmark 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
100 Guinea 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% falling
101 Estonia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% falling
102 Vietnam 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% rising
103 Nepal 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 25.0% falling
104 Slovakia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% falling
105 Liberia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% falling
106 Congo 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
107 South Korea 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% volatile
108 Costa Rica 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
109 Oman 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
110 Bulgaria 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
111 Latvia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% falling
112 Lithuania 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% falling
113 Uzbekistan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 1.1% flat
114 Senegal 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.0% falling
115 Greece 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
116 Zimbabwe 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
117 Turkmenistan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
118 Ireland 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
119 Yemen 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
120 Czechia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% flat
121 Cameroon 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
122 Cote d'Ivoire 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 20.0% falling
123 Suriname 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
124 Malaysia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
125 Austria 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
126 Ecuador 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
127 Iraq 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% falling
128 Central African Republic 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
129 Morocco 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
130 Somalia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
131 South Sudan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
132 Portugal 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% volatile
133 Afghanistan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% falling
134 Myanmar 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% falling
135 Philippines 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
136 Iceland 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% flat
137 Thailand 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% rising
138 Guyana 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 6.8% falling
139 Papua New Guinea 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% rising
140 Ghana 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% volatile
141 Romania 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% volatile
142 Venezuela 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.0% volatile
143 Paraguay 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.3% falling
144 Ukraine 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% flat
145 Kenya 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% falling
146 Poland 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% volatile
147 Turkey 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% rising
148 Pakistan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% flat
149 Mozambique 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.0% falling
150 Egypt 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
151 Uruguay 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
152 Tanzania 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 66.7% falling
153 Chad 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
154 Zambia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% falling
155 Ethiopia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% rising
156 Botswana 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
157 Madagascar 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 40.0% falling
158 Mali 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% falling
159 Mauritania 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% falling
160 Angola 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
161 Niger 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% falling
162 Nigeria 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
163 Iran 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 17.1% rising
164 United Kingdom 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
165 Libya 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 75.0% flat
166 New Zealand 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
167 Sudan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
168 Italy 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% falling
169 Finland 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% falling
170 Saudi Arabia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
171 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% flat
172 Germany 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% flat
173 Bolivia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
174 Norway 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% flat
175 Japan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.0% falling
176 Kazakhstan 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
177 Algeria 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
178 Sweden 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.0% falling
179 Namibia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
180 Peru 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.0% volatile
181 Spain 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% volatile
182 France 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
183 Colombia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 33.3% rising
184 South Africa 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
185 Indonesia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 48.8% falling
186 Mexico 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
187 Chile 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 0.1% volatile
188 China 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
189 Argentina 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
190 India 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
191 Mongolia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% volatile
192 Russia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
193 Brazil 0 units per square kilometre 2023 unchanged falling
194 United States 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.0% rising
195 Australia 0 units per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% flat
196 Canada 0 units per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% flat

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Political rights rating fh divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Political rights rating fh ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Political rights rating fh, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
196 places, 9,006 data points, 1972–2023
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Political rights rating fh divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.