Legislature & Deliberative Institutions — National Capability Index

Indicators

The measures seeded for this capability in the framework. They are candidate indicators: no cell in the index has a source document attached to it yet.

legislative constraints on the executive score
bills subject to committee scrutiny
parliamentary budget analysis capacity

Band spread across 197 nations

Frontier 3

Advanced 19

Established 30

Transitional 42

Foundational 56

Nascent 33

Inception 14

All 197 nations

Best first. The score is the mean of the four adjudicators' round-3 integers, rounded to the nearest integer; ±SD is their spread on that cell. Where the spread is three points or more, read the number as a band rather than a value.

#	Nation	Region	Score	Band	Panel SD
1	🇩🇪Germany	Europe	18	Frontier	±0.50
2	🇬🇧United Kingdom	Europe	18	Frontier	±0.50
3	🇺🇸United States	Americas	18	Frontier	±0.50
4	🇦🇺Australia	Asia Pacific	17	Advanced	±0.00
5	🇨🇦Canada	Americas	17	Advanced	±0.43
6	🇩🇰Denmark	Europe	17	Advanced	±0.00
7	🇫🇮Finland	Europe	17	Advanced	±0.00
8	🇳🇱Netherlands	Europe	17	Advanced	±0.00
9	🇳🇿New Zealand	Asia Pacific	17	Advanced	±0.43
10	🇳🇴Norway	Europe	17	Advanced	±0.00
11	🇸🇪Sweden	Europe	17	Advanced	±0.43
12	🇨🇭Switzerland	Europe	17	Advanced	±0.50
13	🇦🇹Austria	Europe	16	Advanced	±0.43
14	🇧🇪Belgium	Europe	16	Advanced	±0.43
15	🇫🇷France	Europe	16	Advanced	±0.83
16	🇯🇵Japan	Asia Pacific	16	Advanced	±0.00
17	🇰🇷South Korea	Asia Pacific	16	Advanced	±0.43
18	🇹🇼Taiwan	Asia Pacific	16	Advanced	±0.50
19	🇪🇪Estonia	Europe	15	Advanced	±0.50
20	🇮🇸Iceland	Europe	15	Advanced	±0.00
21	🇮🇪Ireland	Europe	15	Advanced	±0.00
22	🇪🇸Spain	Europe	15	Advanced	±0.00
23	🇧🇷Brazil	Americas	14	Established	±0.00
24	🇨🇱Chile	Americas	14	Established	±0.00
25	🇨🇿Czechia	Europe	14	Established	±0.00
26	🇮🇱Israel	Middle East	14	Established	±0.00
27	🇮🇹Italy	Europe	14	Established	±0.00
28	🇱🇻Latvia	Europe	14	Established	±0.43
29	🇱🇹Lithuania	Europe	14	Established	±0.43
30	🇱🇺Luxembourg	Europe	14	Established	±0.00
31	🇵🇹Portugal	Europe	14	Established	±0.00
32	🇸🇮Slovenia	Europe	14	Established	±0.00
33	🇿🇦South Africa	Africa	14	Established	±0.50
34	🇺🇾Uruguay	Americas	14	Established	±0.00
35	🇨🇷Costa Rica	Americas	13	Established	±0.00
36	🇱🇮Liechtenstein	Europe	13	Established	±0.50
37	🇲🇹Malta	Europe	13	Established	±0.50
38	🇵🇱Poland	Europe	13	Established	±0.00
39	🇸🇰Slovakia	Europe	13	Established	±0.43
40	🇦🇷Argentina	Americas	12	Established	±0.43
41	🇧🇬Bulgaria	Europe	12	Established	±0.43
42	🇨🇴Colombia	Americas	12	Established	±0.43
43	🇭🇷Croatia	Europe	12	Established	±0.00
44	🇨🇾Cyprus	Middle East	12	Established	±0.00
45	🇬🇷Greece	Europe	12	Established	±0.00
46	🇮🇳India	Asia Pacific	12	Established	±0.43
47	🇲🇺Mauritius	Africa	12	Established	±0.00
48	🇲🇽Mexico	Americas	12	Established	±0.71
49	🇷🇴Romania	Europe	12	Established	±0.43
50	🇸🇲San Marino	Europe	12	Established	±0.43
51	🇸🇬Singapore	Asia Pacific	12	Established	±1.23
52	🇺🇦Ukraine	Europe	12	Established	±0.43
53	🇦🇩Andorra	Europe	11	Transitional	±0.43
54	🇧🇧Barbados	Americas	11	Transitional	±0.43
55	🇧🇼Botswana	Africa	11	Transitional	±0.00
56	🇨🇻Cabo Verde	Africa	11	Transitional	±0.50
57	🇩🇴Dominican Republic	Americas	11	Transitional	±0.50
58	🇬🇭Ghana	Africa	11	Transitional	±0.00
59	🇮🇩Indonesia	Asia Pacific	11	Transitional	±0.43
60	🇯🇲Jamaica	Americas	11	Transitional	±0.00
61	🇰🇪Kenya	Africa	11	Transitional	±0.43
62	🇲🇾Malaysia	Asia Pacific	11	Transitional	±0.43
63	🇹🇹Trinidad & Tobago	Americas	11	Transitional	±0.43
64	🇦🇱Albania	Europe	10	Transitional	±0.43
65	🇧🇸Bahamas	Americas	10	Transitional	±0.00
66	🇭🇺Hungary	Europe	10	Transitional	±0.00
67	🇲🇩Moldova	Europe	10	Transitional	±0.43
68	🇲🇳Mongolia	Asia Pacific	10	Transitional	±0.43
69	🇲🇪Montenegro	Europe	10	Transitional	±0.43
70	🇳🇦Namibia	Africa	10	Transitional	±0.83
71	🇲🇰North Macedonia	Europe	10	Transitional	±0.83
72	🇵🇦Panama	Americas	10	Transitional	±0.43
73	🇵🇪Peru	Americas	10	Transitional	±0.00
74	🇵🇭Philippines	Asia Pacific	10	Transitional	±0.43
75	🇸🇳Senegal	Africa	10	Transitional	±0.43
76	🇷🇸Serbia	Europe	10	Transitional	±0.83
77	🇸🇨Seychelles	Africa	10	Transitional	±0.43
78	🇱🇰Sri Lanka	Asia Pacific	10	Transitional	±0.43
79	🇹🇷Türkiye	Middle East	10	Transitional	±0.50
80	🇦🇬Antigua & Barbuda	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.00
81	🇦🇲Armenia	Middle East	9	Transitional	±0.43
82	🇧🇿Belize	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.00
83	🇧🇴Bolivia	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.87
84	🇩🇲Dominica	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.43
85	🇪🇨Ecuador	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.00
86	🇬🇪Georgia	Middle East	9	Transitional	±0.00
87	🇳🇬Nigeria	Africa	9	Transitional	±0.00
88	🇵🇰Pakistan	Asia Pacific	9	Transitional	±0.00
89	🇵🇾Paraguay	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.00
90	🇸🇷Suriname	Americas	9	Transitional	±0.43
91	🇹🇿Tanzania	Africa	9	Transitional	±0.87
92	🇹🇭Thailand	Asia Pacific	9	Transitional	±0.83
93	🇺🇬Uganda	Africa	9	Transitional	±0.87
94	🇿🇲Zambia	Africa	9	Transitional	±0.00
95	🇧🇹Bhutan	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.43
96	🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina	Europe	8	Foundational	±0.71
97	🇫🇯Fiji	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.43
98	🇬🇩Grenada	Americas	8	Foundational	±0.00
99	🇬🇾Guyana	Americas	8	Foundational	±0.43
100	🇽🇰Kosovo	Europe	8	Foundational	±0.43
101	🇲🇼Malawi	Africa	8	Foundational	±0.43
102	🇲🇻Maldives	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.43
103	🇲🇦Morocco	Africa	8	Foundational	±0.43
104	🇳🇵Nepal	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.00
105	🇵🇼Palau	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.43
106	🇰🇳Saint Kitts & Nevis	Americas	8	Foundational	±0.43
107	🇱🇨Saint Lucia	Americas	8	Foundational	±0.00
108	🇻🇨Saint Vincent & Grenadines	Americas	8	Foundational	±0.00
109	🇼🇸Samoa	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.87
110	🇹🇱Timor-Leste	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.00
111	🇹🇴Tonga	Asia Pacific	8	Foundational	±0.87
112	🇧🇩Bangladesh	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.43
113	🇧🇯Benin	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.43
114	🇨🇳China	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.87
115	🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.43
116	🇬🇲Gambia	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.43
117	🇬🇹Guatemala	Americas	7	Foundational	±0.00
118	🇭🇳Honduras	Americas	7	Foundational	±0.43
119	🇯🇴Jordan	Middle East	7	Foundational	±0.87
120	🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.50
121	🇱🇸Lesotho	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.50
122	🇲🇬Madagascar	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.50
123	🇵🇬Papua New Guinea	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.43
124	🇷🇼Rwanda	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.87
125	🇸🇹São Tomé & Príncipe	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.00
126	🇸🇱Sierra Leone	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.43
127	🇸🇧Solomon Islands	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.87
128	🇹🇳Tunisia	Africa	7	Foundational	±0.87
129	🇹🇻Tuvalu	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.00
130	🇻🇺Vanuatu	Asia Pacific	7	Foundational	±0.43
131	🇩🇿Algeria	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.83
132	🇦🇴Angola	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.43
133	🇪🇬Egypt	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.43
134	🇸🇻El Salvador	Americas	6	Foundational	±0.43
135	🇪🇹Ethiopia	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.43
136	🇮🇷Iran	Asia Pacific	6	Foundational	±0.83
137	🇮🇶Iraq	Middle East	6	Foundational	±0.00
138	🇰🇿Kazakhstan	Asia Pacific	6	Foundational	±0.87
139	🇰🇮Kiribati	Asia Pacific	6	Foundational	±0.00
140	🇰🇼Kuwait	Middle East	6	Foundational	±0.43
141	🇱🇧Lebanon	Middle East	6	Foundational	±0.43
142	🇱🇷Liberia	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.00
143	🇲🇭Marshall Islands	Asia Pacific	6	Foundational	±0.43
144	🇫🇲Micronesia	Asia Pacific	6	Foundational	±0.43
145	🇲🇨Monaco	Europe	6	Foundational	±0.83
146	🇲🇿Mozambique	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.43
147	🇷🇺Russia	Europe	6	Foundational	±1.23
148	🇹🇬Togo	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.43
149	🇻🇳Vietnam	Asia Pacific	6	Foundational	±0.43
150	🇿🇼Zimbabwe	Africa	6	Foundational	±0.71
151	🇦🇿Azerbaijan	Middle East	5	Nascent	±0.87
152	🇧🇭Bahrain	Middle East	5	Nascent	±0.43
153	🇧🇮Burundi	Africa	5	Nascent	±0.50
154	🇰🇭Cambodia	Asia Pacific	5	Nascent	±0.43
155	🇨🇲Cameroon	Africa	5	Nascent	±0.43
156	🇰🇲Comoros	Africa	5	Nascent	±0.50
157	🇨🇬Congo	Africa	5	Nascent	±0.43
158	🇨🇩DR Congo	Africa	5	Nascent	±0.43
159	🇲🇷Mauritania	Africa	5	Nascent	±0.43
160	🇳🇷Nauru	Asia Pacific	5	Nascent	±0.00
161	🇧🇫Burkina Faso	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.83
162	🇹🇩Chad	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.50
163	🇨🇺Cuba	Americas	4	Nascent	±0.71
164	🇩🇯Djibouti	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.50
165	🇸🇿Eswatini	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.43
166	🇬🇦Gabon	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.50
167	🇱🇦Laos	Asia Pacific	4	Nascent	±0.50
168	🇲🇱Mali	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.50
169	🇳🇮Nicaragua	Americas	4	Nascent	±0.50
170	🇴🇲Oman	Middle East	4	Nascent	±0.83
171	🇶🇦Qatar	Middle East	4	Nascent	±0.83
172	🇸🇦Saudi Arabia	Middle East	4	Nascent	±0.87
173	🇸🇴Somalia	Africa	4	Nascent	±0.00
174	🇦🇪United Arab Emirates	Middle East	4	Nascent	±0.71
175	🇺🇿Uzbekistan	Asia Pacific	4	Nascent	±0.43
176	🇧🇾Belarus	Europe	3	Nascent	±0.71
177	🇨🇫Central African Rep.	Africa	3	Nascent	±0.43
178	🇬🇳Guinea	Africa	3	Nascent	±0.00
179	🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau	Africa	3	Nascent	±0.00
180	🇵🇸Palestine	Middle East	3	Nascent	±0.43
181	🇸🇸South Sudan	Africa	3	Nascent	±0.43
182	🇹🇯Tajikistan	Asia Pacific	3	Nascent	±0.71
183	🇻🇪Venezuela	Americas	3	Nascent	±0.00
184	🇧🇳Brunei	Asia Pacific	2	Inception	±0.71
185	🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea	Africa	2	Inception	±0.00
186	🇱🇾Libya	Africa	2	Inception	±0.00
187	🇳🇪Niger	Africa	2	Inception	±0.71
188	🇸🇩Sudan	Africa	2	Inception	±0.50
189	🇸🇾Syria	Middle East	2	Inception	±0.43
190	🇹🇲Turkmenistan	Asia Pacific	2	Inception	±0.43
191	🇾🇪Yemen	Middle East	2	Inception	±0.50
192	🇦🇫Afghanistan	Asia Pacific	1	Inception	±0.50
193	🇪🇷Eritrea	Africa	1	Inception	±0.00
194	🇭🇹Haiti	Americas	1	Inception	±0.43
195	🇻🇦Holy See	Europe	1	Inception	±0.43
196	🇲🇲Myanmar	Asia Pacific	1	Inception	±0.71
197	🇰🇵North Korea	Asia Pacific	1	Inception	±0.43

Others in Political Institutions & Civic Participation

Capability	World mean	Range	Leader
Electoral Management & Integrity	9.8	0–18	Australia, Canada, Denmark
Citizen Participation & Civic Space	8.6	0–18	Finland, Sweden, Switzerland