Political rights index

40 = highest degree of political rights

Political rights index (score)

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Japan	37	37	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
New Zealand	39	39	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	40
Australia	39	39	39	40	40	40	40	40	40	39	38	38
Marshall Islands	36	36	36	37	37	37	38	38	38	38	38	38
Taiwan Province of China	36	36	37	37	37	37	37	37	38	38	38	38
Kiribati	36	36	36	36	37	38	37	37	37	37	37	37
Micronesia (Federated States of)	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Palau	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Tuvalu	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37	37
Mongolia	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36
Nauru	38	38	37	35	35	35	34	34	34	34	34	34
Timor-Leste	29	29	29	29	29	32	32	32	33	33	33	33
India	34	34	35	35	35	35	35	34	34	33	33	33
Republic of Korea	36	35	34	34	32	33	33	33	33	33	33	33
Samoa	32	32	32	31	30	30	30	30	30	32	31	32
Vanuatu	32	32	32	31	32	33	33	33	33	33	33	32
Tonga	29	31	31	31	30	30	30	30	30	30	31	31
Bhutan	22	28	29	29	28	28	29	29	30	29	29	30
Indonesia	30	30	30	31	31	30	30	30	30	30	30	29
Nepal	20	23	24	25	24	25	25	25	25	25	26	28
Solomon Islands	22	22	25	25	27	28	30	30	30	30	29	28
Fiji	7	7	26	27	25	24	24	24	24	23	24	27
Philippines	26	26	26	27	27	27	26	25	25	25	25	25
Armenia	13	14	16	16	16	15	20	21	22	23	23	23
Malaysia	20	19	19	18	18	18	21	21	21	20	22	22
Papua New Guinea	23	24	23	23	26	25	23	23	23	23	22	22
Sri Lanka	16	16	16	23	24	24	24	23	23	23	23	22
Georgia	24	25	26	27	27	26	25	24	23	22	22	22
Maldives	17	19	20	19	17	14	14	18	19	19	19	21
Singapore	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19
Bangladesh	25	24	21	21	20	19	17	15	15	15	15	15
Pakistan	20	21	20	20	21	19	17	16	15	15	15	14
Thailand	22	22	8	7	7	6	5	6	5	5	6	12
हांगकांग	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	16	15	10	10	9
Brunei Darussalam	7	7	7	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
Kazakhstan	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Cambodia	9	10	11	11	11	10	6	5	5	5	5	4
Viet Nam	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
Kyrgyzstan	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	4	4	4	4
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2
Uzbekistan	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	2	2	2
Afghanistan	11	11	11	10	10	12	13	13	13	1	1	1
Myanmar	9	9	9	11	14	13	13	14	13	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	6	6	6	5	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	0
Tajikistan	8	8	7	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkmenistan	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
China	2	2	2	1	1	0	-1	-1	-2	-2	-2	-2

Political rights index (score)

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