“Decentralized” or “Decentralised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 8 prefer “decentralized” and 3 prefer “decentralised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	decentralized	decentralised	Preference
United States	99	1	“decentralized”
United Kingdom	47	53	“decentralised”
India	70	30	“decentralized”
Philippines	97	3	“decentralized”
Canada	96	4	“decentralized”
Australia	41	59	“decentralised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	54	46	“decentralized”
New Zealand	45	55	“decentralised”
Jamaica	100	0	“decentralized”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“decentralized”
Guyana	100	0	“decentralized”

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“decentralized”

…provide training on federalism and decentralized governance, as well as sector…
…professional partnership which has a decentralized organization relationship between the national…
…who support some form of decentralized economic planning and pro-market anarchists…
…can only be established through decentralized, non-coercive organization.
…NBTS thus became a fully decentralized unit.
Decentralized network 42 (also known as…
These "greenbelt" advocates called for decentralized, automobile-oriented development as a means…
…however, Congregationalists practiced a more decentralized form of church governance described…
…in February 2006, establishes a decentralized semi-presidential republic, with a separation…
…asserts that since knowledge is decentralized ("the knowledge of the particular…

“decentralised”

…constitutes libertarian ideas of a decentralised local government as opposed to…
…to be more widespread and decentralised.
ALADDIN: autonomous learning agents for decentralised data and information networks (2005–2010)
…this was done was highly decentralised and required the issuance of…
…treatment performance similar to conventional decentralised wastewater treatment systems but with…
…Australia is also the most decentralised.
The Swiss government had a decentralised structure, so even the Federal…
…travelled from Niani, the more decentralised the mansa's power became.
Iwaki is a decentralised city created the merger of…
…involved the sort of relationship-orientated, decentralised community mobilisation that he wished…

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