Most significant positive evidence
The assessment records rapid economic development, expansion of infrastructure and public services, poverty reduction and greater administrative and digital capacity.
Person
Narendra Modi
Prime minister of India. The assessment covers economic and infrastructure development, poverty reduction, digital government, welfare delivery, democratic institutions, minority rights, religious polarisation and restrictions on civic space.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+2.09
Reasoned summary
Material development, public capacity and poverty reduction receive substantial positive weight. The total result is reduced and may become negative because development occurred alongside serious minority-rights concerns, polarisation and restrictions on dissent.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The principal negative evidence concerns anti-minority rhetoric, discriminatory effects, attacks on civil society and media and the erosion of equal treatment and plural democratic norms.
Read the full Narendra Modi ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +25.00
- Rights and dignity
- -49.01
- Nonviolence and harm
- -25.00
- Stewardship of power
- +20.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +35.83
- Consequential legacy
- +5.69
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Narendra Modi (2014–2026)
2014–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile