Palau
Rank 23 / 190
Civica PulseBetaTrailing 365 days
See all events →No published Pulse events for Palau in the trailing window. The Beta pipeline is in active rollout — events queued for human review do not yet contribute to the score. See the global changelog for current activity, or methodology for how this is computed.
Civica Index breakdown · 4 governance dimensionsweights empirically derived · source-specific inputs
How the 80 is calculated.
Democratic Quality
World Bank WGI
27%
87
contributes 23 pts
Rule of Law
World Bank WGI
26%
80
contributes 21 pts
Freedoms & Rights
Freedom House
23%
100
contributes 23 pts
History · quarterly CI trend
How the index has moved over time.
Historical CI data is not available yet for this country.
Regional rank
Where Palau sits against peers.
Global#23 of 190
Oceania#4 of 12
World Bank region
East Asia & Pacific · High income
#4of 8
V-Dem Regimes of the World
Limited peer comparison available
Not classified by the upstream source. See methodology page for coverage limits.
Compare with
Government taxonomy
Raw source
presidential republic in free association with the US
Regime type
Presidential democracy · 2025
Cite this page
Civica Index for Palau, 2026-05-07. Civica Atlas. https://civicaatlas.org/civica-index/palau