Burundi vs Nigeria: Physical Integrity Rights Score

Burundi

-1.69

in 2019

Nigeria

-1.66

in 2019

Burundi rank

176th

Nigeria rank

174th

Physical Integrity Rights Score over time

Burundi
Nigeria

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports -1.66 against -1.69 in Burundi, a difference of 0.0321.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1962 it was Nigeria ahead.

Globally, Burundi ranks 176th and Nigeria ranks 174th 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.