Madagascar vs Zimbabwe: Physical Integrity Rights Score

Madagascar

-0.4432

in 2019

Zimbabwe

-0.4662

in 2019

Madagascar rank

149th

Zimbabwe rank

151st

Physical Integrity Rights Score over time

Madagascar
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Madagascar currently reports -0.4432 against -0.4662 in Zimbabwe, a difference of 0.0231.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 55 shared years of data; in 1965 it was Madagascar ahead.

Globally, Madagascar ranks 149th and Zimbabwe ranks 151st 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.