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Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015

2015, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015 covers 176 countries. Azerbaijan is highest, at 0.980; Denmark is lowest, at 0.006. The middle country reads 0.457. Against 2014, 128 values changed (64 up, 64 down), the same countries are covered.

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Neopatrimonial Rule Index · Data for 2015

HighestAzerbaijan

0.980

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, 2015, 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 176 countries · select a heading to sort

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0.980
2TajikistanTJKCentral Asia0.975
=3SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.971
=3TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.971
5North KoreaPRKEastern Asia0.968
=6UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia0.967
=6VenezuelaVENSouth America0.967
8EritreaERIEastern Africa0.965
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa0.958
10ChadTCDMiddle Africa0.945
11NicaraguaNICCentral America0.940
=12BurundiBDIEastern Africa0.934
=12South SudanSSDEastern Africa0.934
14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.916
15SudanSDNNorthern Africa0.909
16DR CongoCODMiddle Africa0.906
17KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia0.898
18YemenYEMWestern Asia0.892
=19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa0.887
=19CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.887
21BelarusBLREastern Europe0.883
22Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa0.869
23BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia0.853
24RussiaRUSEastern Europe0.845
25CubaCUBCaribbean0.843

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Azerbaijan0.980
  2. 2Tajikistan0.975
  3. 3Syriashared0.971
  4. 3Turkmenistanshared0.971
  5. 5North Korea0.968

Lowest

  1. 176Denmark0.006
  2. 175Norway0.011
  3. 174Sweden0.012
  4. 172New Zealandshared0.018
  5. 172Switzerlandshared0.018

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.457. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 128values changed, of 176 in both
  • 64 · 64rose · fell
  • 48unchanged

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 2015.

  • 159 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.781. 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 176 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 (2015). Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/neopatrimonial-rule/2015

0636 held

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07Questions

Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest neopatrimonial rule in Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015?

Azerbaijan, at 0.980, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015 cover?

176.

Where can I download Neopatrimonial Rule Index, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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