Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) by country
Rule of Law (RL) captures perceptions of the extent to which agents respect and follow the rules of society, including contract enforcement, property rights, the police, courts, and the likelihood of crime and violence. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical...
Countries reporting
205
Highest
91.75 0-100
Finland
Lowest
19.01 0-100
Somalia
Median
54.45 0-100
Years covered
29
1996–2024
Data points
5,270
What the numbers show
Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) is currently reported for 205 countries. The highest value is 91.75 0-100 in Finland; the lowest is 19.01 0-100 in Somalia.
The median across all reporting countries is 54.45 0-100, and the mean is 56.05 0-100.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 5.
Over the past decade 108 countries rose and 97 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 26.4%), and the largest decrease in Nicaragua (down 29.7%).
Rule of Law - Governance score: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland | 91.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 2 | Denmark | 91.46 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 3 | Norway | 90.52 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 4 | Switzerland | 87.32 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 5 | Luxembourg | 87.29 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 6 | Liechtenstein | 86.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 7 | Sweden | 86.68 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.0% | flat |
| 8 | Netherlands | 86.34 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 9 | Austria | 85.84 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.9% | flat |
| 10 | New Zealand | 85.66 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.8% | flat |
| 11 | Iceland | 84.98 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 12 | Germany | 84.95 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 13 | Ireland | 84.35 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 14 | Greenland | 84.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.0% | flat |
| 15 | Japan | 82.98 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 16 | Estonia | 82.55 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 17 | Australia | 82.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 18 | Canada | 82.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 19 | Singapore | 81.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 20 | Lithuania | 80.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 21 | Monaco | 80.12 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 22 | Belgium | 79.04 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.7% | flat |
| 23 | United Kingdom | 78.82 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.6% | falling |
| 24 | Tuvalu | 77.99 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.9% | flat |
| 25 | Aruba | 77.96 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 26 | Czechia | 77.41 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 27 | Palau | 77.12 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.4% | rising |
| 28 | San Marino | 76.89 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.8% | rising |
| 29 | South Korea | 76.2 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 30 | Latvia | 75.75 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.5% | rising |
| 31 | American Samoa | 75.67 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.0% | rising |
| 32 | New Caledonia | 75.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 33 | Portugal | 75.42 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.2% | flat |
| 34 | Samoa | 75.09 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 35 | Guam | 74.77 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.2% | rising |
| 36 | French Polynesia | 74.47 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.8% | flat |
| 37 | Slovenia | 73.81 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.1% | flat |
| 38 | France | 73.81 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.2% | falling |
| 39 | Micronesia (country) | 73.78 0-100 | 2024 | up 23.9% | falling |
| 40 | United States | 73.52 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.2% | falling |
| 41 | Uruguay | 73.32 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 42 | Spain | 73 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.7% | falling |
| 43 | Hong Kong | 72.82 0-100 | 2024 | down 13.0% | flat |
| 44 | Macao | 71.63 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.1% | rising |
| 45 | Marshall Islands | 71.35 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.4% | flat |
| 46 | Cayman Islands | 71.25 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.7% | falling |
| 47 | Bermuda | 70.74 0-100 | 2024 | up 25.7% | falling |
| 48 | Bhutan | 70.57 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 49 | Kiribati | 70.49 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.7% | flat |
| 50 | Barbados | 69.49 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.6% | falling |
| 51 | Malta | 69.48 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.0% | falling |
| 52 | Tonga | 68.91 0-100 | 2024 | up 23.1% | flat |
| 53 | Chile | 68.86 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 54 | Cyprus | 68.83 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.2% | falling |
| 55 | Mauritius | 67.96 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.5% | flat |
| 56 | Italy | 67.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | falling |
| 57 | Costa Rica | 67.58 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 58 | Antigua and Barbuda | 67.32 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.3% | falling |
| 59 | Israel | 67.29 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.8% | flat |
| 60 | Seychelles | 67.24 0-100 | 2024 | up 13.2% | flat |
| 61 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 67.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.4% | falling |
| 62 | Qatar | 67.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 63 | Brunei | 67.08 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | falling |
| 64 | United States Virgin Islands | 66.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 19.0% | flat |
| 65 | Poland | 66.89 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.3% | flat |
| 66 | Slovakia | 66.62 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 67 | Puerto Rico | 66.36 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.4% | falling |
| 68 | Grenada | 66.27 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.7% | flat |
| 69 | Saint Lucia | 65.63 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.6% | falling |
| 70 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 65.6 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 71 | United Arab Emirates | 65.52 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.0% | flat |
| 72 | Oman | 64.7 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.0% | falling |
| 73 | Cape Verde | 64.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.1% | flat |
| 74 | Vanuatu | 64.22 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.8% | falling |
| 75 | Dominica | 63.81 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.5% | falling |
| 76 | Croatia | 63.46 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 77 | Romania | 63.35 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 78 | Malaysia | 62.9 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 79 | Namibia | 62.61 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | flat |
| 80 | Botswana | 62.34 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.8% | falling |
| 81 | Fiji | 62.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 25.6% | rising |
| 82 | Greece | 62.1 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.7% | falling |
| 83 | Nauru | 61.3 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.6% | falling |
| 84 | Bahamas | 61.28 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 85 | Kuwait | 60.94 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.5% | falling |
| 86 | Saudi Arabia | 60.59 0-100 | 2024 | up 22.4% | flat |
| 87 | Hungary | 60.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.3% | falling |
| 88 | Montenegro | 60.09 0-100 | 2024 | up 7.0% | flat |
| 89 | Jordan | 59.87 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 90 | Bahrain | 59.85 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.4% | falling |
| 91 | Solomon Islands | 59.6 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.5% | falling |
| 92 | Georgia | 59.53 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.6% | rising |
| 93 | Rwanda | 58.69 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 94 | Ghana | 57.89 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.6% | rising |
| 96 | Maldives | 57.73 0-100 | 2024 | up 22.0% | flat |
| 97 | South Africa | 57.27 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 98 | Bulgaria | 56.39 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.9% | flat |
| 99 | India | 56.29 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.0% | falling |
| 100 | Jamaica | 55.63 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 101 | Mongolia | 55.25 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.8% | falling |
| 102 | Albania | 54.93 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.2% | rising |
| 103 | Armenia | 54.51 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.4% | flat |
| 104 | Malawi | 54.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.4% | flat |
| 105 | Moldova | 54.19 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.9% | flat |
| 106 | Dominican Republic | 53.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 107 | Serbia | 53.52 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.0% | rising |
| 108 | Senegal | 53.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 109 | Indonesia | 53.41 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.4% | rising |
| 110 | Suriname | 53.38 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.5% | flat |
| 111 | Thailand | 53.26 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.3% | falling |
| 112 | North Macedonia | 53.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.1% | rising |
| 113 | Argentina | 52.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.6% | flat |
| 114 | Sri Lanka | 52.53 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.5% | falling |
| 115 | Panama | 52.43 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 116 | Nepal | 51.74 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.0% | flat |
| 117 | Vietnam | 51.56 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 118 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51.47 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.1% | rising |
| 119 | Guyana | 51.21 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.1% | falling |
| 120 | Sao Tome and Principe | 50.89 0-100 | 2024 | up 10.6% | falling |
| 121 | Tunisia | 50.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.7% | flat |
| 122 | Morocco | 50.63 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | falling |
| 123 | Trinidad and Tobago | 50.57 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.7% | falling |
| 124 | Kazakhstan | 50.4 0-100 | 2024 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 125 | Gambia | 50.18 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.7% | falling |
| 126 | Belize | 50.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.0% | falling |
| 127 | Lesotho | 49.97 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.1% | falling |
| 128 | Benin | 49.87 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.3% | falling |
| 129 | Brazil | 49.28 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.6% | flat |
| 130 | Kenya | 48.97 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 131 | Azerbaijan | 48.61 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.1% | rising |
| 132 | Peru | 48.26 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.7% | rising |
| 133 | Tanzania | 48.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 1.9% | falling |
| 134 | Colombia | 47.33 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.1% | rising |
| 135 | Zambia | 47.31 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.8% | falling |
| 136 | Papua New Guinea | 47.13 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 137 | Philippines | 47.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.2% | falling |
| 138 | Cote d'Ivoire | 47.01 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 139 | China | 46.99 0-100 | 2024 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 140 | Paraguay | 46.92 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.5% | rising |
| 141 | Cuba | 46.23 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 142 | East Timor | 46.2 0-100 | 2024 | up 18.8% | falling |
| 143 | Togo | 46.07 0-100 | 2024 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 144 | Uzbekistan | 45.67 0-100 | 2024 | up 19.2% | rising |
| 145 | Algeria | 44.97 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.6% | flat |
| 146 | El Salvador | 44.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 147 | Ukraine | 44.57 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.2% | rising |
| 148 | Uganda | 44.25 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 149 | Laos | 44.19 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 150 | Egypt | 44.03 0-100 | 2024 | up 3.6% | falling |
| 151 | Sierra Leone | 42.53 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 152 | Turkey | 42.45 0-100 | 2024 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 153 | Eswatini | 42.17 0-100 | 2024 | down 10.2% | falling |
| 154 | Mauritania | 42.1 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.4% | falling |
| 155 | Liberia | 42.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 156 | Madagascar | 41.77 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.3% | falling |
| 157 | Burkina Faso | 41.75 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.1% | flat |
| 158 | Kyrgyzstan | 40.85 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.7% | flat |
| 159 | Niger | 40.69 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.7% | flat |
| 160 | Bangladesh | 40.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.4% | flat |
| 161 | Guatemala | 40.4 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 162 | Ecuador | 40.36 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.2% | flat |
| 163 | Palestine | 39.94 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 164 | Nigeria | 39.63 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 165 | Djibouti | 39.58 0-100 | 2024 | up 0.6% | falling |
| 166 | Pakistan | 39.46 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 167 | Ethiopia | 38.91 0-100 | 2024 | down 11.6% | flat |
| 168 | Cambodia | 38.79 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 169 | Lebanon | 38.28 0-100 | 2024 | down 14.9% | falling |
| 170 | Mali | 38.13 0-100 | 2024 | down 15.0% | falling |
| 171 | Comoros | 37.5 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.8% | flat |
| 172 | Guinea | 37.21 0-100 | 2024 | up 20.0% | rising |
| 173 | Mexico | 37.11 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.9% | falling |
| 174 | Gabon | 37.07 0-100 | 2024 | down 20.0% | falling |
| 175 | Russia | 37.06 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.4% | flat |
| 176 | Angola | 36.83 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.8% | rising |
| 177 | Honduras | 36.71 0-100 | 2024 | down 0.1% | falling |
| 178 | Congo | 36.68 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 179 | Tajikistan | 36.59 0-100 | 2024 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 180 | Mozambique | 36.4 0-100 | 2024 | down 12.1% | falling |
| 181 | Zimbabwe | 36.12 0-100 | 2024 | up 26.4% | rising |
| 182 | Belarus | 35.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 18.9% | falling |
| 183 | Iran | 35.71 0-100 | 2024 | up 1.0% | falling |
| 184 | Guinea-Bissau | 35.71 0-100 | 2024 | up 9.2% | rising |
| 185 | Cameroon | 35.39 0-100 | 2024 | down 8.8% | flat |
| 186 | Bolivia | 35.15 0-100 | 2024 | down 5.9% | falling |
| 187 | Burundi | 34.54 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 188 | Iraq | 33.59 0-100 | 2024 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 189 | Turkmenistan | 32.64 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.2% | falling |
| 190 | Chad | 32.1 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.7% | falling |
| 191 | North Korea | 30.71 0-100 | 2024 | up 14.4% | falling |
| 192 | Equatorial Guinea | 30.45 0-100 | 2024 | down 3.1% | falling |
| 193 | Haiti | 29.37 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.2% | rising |
| 194 | Nicaragua | 29.09 0-100 | 2024 | down 29.7% | falling |
| 195 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 28.97 0-100 | 2024 | down 4.3% | rising |
| 196 | Libya | 27.74 0-100 | 2024 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 197 | Central African Republic | 27.45 0-100 | 2024 | up 6.3% | falling |
| 198 | Sudan | 26.44 0-100 | 2024 | down 18.0% | flat |
| 199 | Eritrea | 25.94 0-100 | 2024 | down 7.7% | falling |
| 200 | Myanmar | 25.79 0-100 | 2024 | down 27.2% | rising |
| 201 | Syria | 25.75 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.0% | falling |
| 202 | Yemen | 24.24 0-100 | 2024 | down 26.5% | falling |
| 203 | Afghanistan | 23.65 0-100 | 2024 | down 17.8% | rising |
| 204 | South Sudan | 23.02 0-100 | 2024 | down 18.0% | falling |
| 205 | Venezuela | 19.03 0-100 | 2024 | down 9.3% | falling |
| 206 | Somalia | 19.01 0-100 | 2024 | up 2.1% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Kosovo 57.86 0-100
About this data
Rule of Law (RL) captures perceptions of the extent to which agents respect and follow the rules of society, including contract enforcement, property rights, the police, courts, and the likelihood of crime and violence. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).