Ghana vs Mauritania: Physical Integrity Rights Score

Ghana
0.3804
in 2019
Mauritania
0.3162
in 2019
Ghana rank
114th
Mauritania rank
115th

Physical Integrity Rights Score over time

  • Ghana
  • Mauritania
-2-101195719882019

How they compare

Ghana currently reports 0.3804 against 0.3162 in Mauritania, a difference of 0.0642.

That makes Ghana's figure about 1.2 times Mauritania's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Mauritania ahead.

Globally, Ghana ranks 114th and Mauritania ranks 115th 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

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.