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Government Social Media Censorship, 2023

2023, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Social Media Censorship, 2023 covers 176 countries. Portugal is highest, at 2.295; North Korea is lowest, at -4.519. The middle country reads 0.655. Against 2022, 50 values changed (22 up, 28 down), the same countries are covered.

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Government Social Media Censorship · Data for 2023

HighestPortugal

2.295

LowestNorth Korea

-4.519

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Government Social Media Censorship, 2023, 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

Government Social Media Censorship, 2023: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1PortugalPRTSouthern Europe2.295
2AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.180
3SwedenSWENorthern Europe2.142
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe2.116
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe2.112
6BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.108
7LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.104
8SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe2.097
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.086
10SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.083
11SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.066
12MaltaMLTSouthern Europe2.015
13UruguayURYSouth America2.014
14Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean2.004
15LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.956
16BotswanaBWASouthern Africa1.926
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.914
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.911
19ParaguayPRYSouth America1.877
=20ArgentinaARGSouth America1.868
=20JamaicaJAMCaribbean1.868
22ItalyITASouthern Europe1.820
23Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.816
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa1.794
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.762

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Portugal2.295
  2. 2Austria2.180
  3. 3Sweden2.142
  4. 4Ireland2.116
  5. 5Norway2.112

Lowest

  1. 176North Korea-4.519
  2. 175Turkmenistan-3.484
  3. 174Bangladesh-3.383
  4. 173South Sudan-2.956
  5. 172Myanmar-2.943

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 0.655. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 176 in both
  • 22 · 28rose · fell
  • 126unchanged

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 2023.

  • 173 distinct values among 176

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.868. 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 better 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 (2023). Government Social Media Censorship, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/social-media-censorship/2023

0626 held

Other years

07Questions

Government Social Media Censorship, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest social media censorship in Government Social Media Censorship, 2023?

Portugal, at 2.295, of the 176 countries in the file.

What year does Government Social Media Censorship, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Government Social Media Censorship, 2023 cover?

176.

Where can I download Government Social Media Censorship, 2023?

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

Is Government Social Media Censorship, 2023 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Government Social Media Censorship, 2025.

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