Values reflect the percentage of registered voters who have participated in national elections (lower house). Data does not always refer to the most recent, but most relevant election for the SGI 2011 review period. Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union, PARLINE Database.

Voter turnout scores

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Voter turnout

To ensure comparability, observed values are transformed into SGI scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The lowest value translates into score 1, the best value into score 10. Remaining values are transformed according to the original data distribution.

Value

Score

1	Australia	94.76	10.00
2	Luxembourg	91.68	9.43
3	Belgium	91.08	9.32
4	Chile	86.56	8.49
4	Denmark	86.59	8.49
6	Turkey	84.16	8.04
7	Iceland	83.60	7.94
8	Sweden	81.99	7.64
9	Italy	80.51	7.37
10	Netherlands	80.35	7.34
11	New Zealand	79.46	7.18
12	Austria	78.81	7.06
13	Germany	77.73	6.86
14	Norway	77.44	6.80
15	Spain	75.32	6.41
16	Greece	74.14	6.19
17	Hungary	67.57	4.98
18	Japan	67.46	4.96
19	Ireland	67.03	4.88
20	USA	65.60	4.62
21	Finland	65.02	4.51
22	Czech Rep.	64.47	4.41
23	Portugal	64.26	4.37
24	UK	61.79	3.91
25	France	60.42	3.66
26	Mexico	58.90	3.38
27	Canada	58.83	3.37
28	Slovakia	54.67	2.60
29	Poland	53.88	2.45
30	Switzerland	48.28	1.42
31	South Korea	46.01	1.00

Key concepts

Good democratic governance presupposes active participation by informed citizens.

This criterion assesses the extent to which citizens have information enabling them to adequately evaluate government policy-making, whether gleaned from the media or from direct government communications.

A high level of knowledge is used as an indication that citizens are likely to understand the motives, objectives, effects and implications of policies. A high level of voter turnout is also viewed as a sign of public engagement in political issues.

Performance comparison

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