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Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009

2009, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009 covers 175 countries. Eritrea is highest, at 0.978; Denmark is lowest, at 0.006. The middle country reads 0.483. Against 2008, 106 values changed (55 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neopatrimonial Rule Index · Data for 2009

HighestEritrea

0.978

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, 2009, 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 175 countries · select a heading to sort

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1EritreaERIEastern Africa0.978
2TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.975
3North KoreaPRKEastern Asia0.970
4UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia0.968
=5AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0.965
=5MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia0.965
=7TajikistanTJKCentral Asia0.959
=7VenezuelaVENSouth America0.959
=9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa0.944
=9SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.944
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa0.930
12CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.912
13SomaliaSOMEastern Africa0.910
14KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia0.907
15CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.905
16TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.900
=17GuineaGINWestern Africa0.899
=17LibyaLBYNorthern Africa0.899
19MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.889
=20AngolaAGOMiddle Africa0.883
=20NicaraguaNICCentral America0.883
=22BelarusBLREastern Europe0.881
=22Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa0.881
24SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.877
25KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia0.863

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Eritrea0.978
  2. 2Turkmenistan0.975
  3. 3North Korea0.970
  4. 4Uzbekistan0.968
  5. 5Azerbaijanshared0.965

Lowest

  1. 175Denmark0.006
  2. 174Norway0.011
  3. 173Sweden0.014
  4. 172Australia0.017
  5. 171Switzerland0.018

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.483. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 106values changed, of 175 in both
  • 55 · 51rose · fell
  • 69unchanged

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 2009.

  • 158 distinct values among 175

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.965. 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 175 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 (2009). Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neopatrimonial-rule/2009

0636 held

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07Questions

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neopatrimonial rule in Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009?

Eritrea, at 0.978, of the 175 countries in the file.

What year does Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009 cover?

175.

Where can I download Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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