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Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997

1997, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997 covers 172 countries. North Korea is highest, at 0.971; Denmark is lowest, at 0.006. The middle country reads 0.541. Against 1996, 92 values changed (44 up, 48 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neopatrimonial Rule Index · Data for 1997

HighestNorth Korea

0.971

LowestDenmark

0.006

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 172 countries · select a heading to sort

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1North KoreaPRKEastern Asia0.971
=2TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.970
=2UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia0.970
=4MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia0.965
=4SomaliaSOMEastern Africa0.965
=6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.959
=6SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.959
8SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.955
9DR CongoCODMiddle Africa0.951
10Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa0.950
11AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0.947
12MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia0.945
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa0.930
=14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.915
=14TajikistanTJKCentral Asia0.915
16BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.904
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.902
18KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia0.900
19GuineaGINWestern Africa0.899
20EritreaERIEastern Africa0.897
21Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa0.893
22MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa0.890
=23AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia0.887
=23CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.887
25PeruPERSouth America0.881

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1North Korea0.971
  2. 2Turkmenistanshared0.970
  3. 2Uzbekistanshared0.970
  4. 4Myanmarshared0.965
  5. 4Somaliashared0.965

Lowest

  1. 172Denmark0.006
  2. 171Norway0.011
  3. 170Sweden0.014
  4. 168Germanyshared0.019
  5. 168Switzerlandshared0.019

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.541. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 92values changed, of 172 in both
  • 44 · 48rose · fell
  • 80unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1997.

  • 156 distinct values among 172

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.970. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 172 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (1997). Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neopatrimonial-rule/1997

0636 held

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07Questions

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neopatrimonial rule in Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997?

North Korea, at 0.971, of the 172 countries in the file.

What year does Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997 cover?

172.

Where can I download Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 1997 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2025.

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