Who governs in the OECD?
I thought it would be interesting to look at the 36 OECD members and see how many have centre-right and centre-left governments. The split as far as I can tell is:
Centre-Right (23)
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Chile
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy*
- Japan
- Latvia
- Lithuania*
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
Centre-Left (13)
- Canada
- Estonia
- Finland
- Greece
- Iceland
- South Korea
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Portugal
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
So around two thirds of OECD members currently have centre-right Governments.
Even more interesting when you adjust for population. Around 300 million live in a country with a CL Government and almost one billion in countries with a CR Government.