Combined polity score - Governance & partnership - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators



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The POLITY score is computed by subtracting the AUTOCRACY (UPP.INS.AUTO.XQ) score from the DEMOCRACY (UPP.INS.DEMO.XQ) score. The resulting unified polity scale ranges from +10 (strongly democratic) to -10 (strongly autocratic). Polity Index cannot capture the degree of political systems, hence detailed descriptions of political trends in each country as well as explanations for their coding are available from the polity. Polity IV Project, Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2006, annual, cross-national, time-series and polity-case formats coding democratic and autocratic "patterns of authority" and regime changes in all independent countries with total population greater than 500,000 in 2006 (162 countries in 2006; SPSS and Excel data; PDF codebook). Note: Individual Polity IV Country Reports can be examined by checking the website http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity06.htm; changes made during the most recent update (2006) are listed in an Excel file in http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/inscr.htm. Source: Center for Systemic Peace with reference to the Polity IV Web site at www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
Combined polity score - Governance & partnership - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2008)

Rank

Country

Value

1Mauritius10
2Comoros9
3South Africa9
4Botswana8
5Senegal8
6Ghana8
7Lesotho8
8Benin7
9Mali7
10Kenya7
11Madagascar7
12Sierra Leone7
13Zambia7
14Burundi6
15Malawi6
16Niger6
17Namibia6
18Mozambique6
19Guinea-Bissau6
20Liberia6
21Democratic Republic of the Congo5
22Nigeria4
23Djibouti2
24Algeria2
25Ethiopia1
26Ivory Coast0
27Burkina Faso0
28Somalia0
29Central African Republic-1
30Guinea-1
31Tanzania-1
32Uganda-1
33Chad-2
34Angola-2
35Rwanda-3
36Egypt-3
37Republic of the Congo-4
38Sudan-4
39Cameroon-4
40Togo-4
41Tunisia-4
42Gabon-4
43Zimbabwe-4
44Equatorial Guinea-5
45Gambia-5
46Mauritania-5
47Morocco-6
48Libya-7
49Eritrea-7
50Swaziland-9
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