Belgium vs Ireland: Physical Integrity Rights Score

Belgium

3.16

in 2019

Ireland

3.12

in 2019

Belgium rank

22nd

Ireland rank

24th

Physical Integrity Rights Score over time

Belgium
Ireland

How they compare

Belgium currently reports 3.16 against 3.12 in Ireland, a difference of 0.0376.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1946 it was Ireland ahead.

Globally, Belgium ranks 22nd and Ireland ranks 24th of 193 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Physical Integrity Rights Score
Source: Fariss et al. (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 193 places, 11,139 data points, 1946–2019
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

The score captures the extent to which citizens are protected from government killings, torture, political imprisonments, extrajudicial executions, mass killings and disappearances. Large positive scores mean abuses are rare relative to other countries and years, large negative scores that abuses are relatively widespread.