Rwanda vs Zimbabwe: Judicial Checks on Government Index

Rwanda

0.167

in 2025

Zimbabwe

0.182

in 2025

Rwanda rank

143rd

Zimbabwe rank

141st

Judicial Checks on Government Index over time

Rwanda
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Zimbabwe currently reports 0.182 against 0.167 in Rwanda, a difference of 0.015.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 110 shared years of data; in 1916 it was Zimbabwe ahead.

Rwanda ranks 143rd and Zimbabwe ranks 141st of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Judicial Checks on Government Index in Rwanda
Judicial Checks on Government Index in Zimbabwe
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Judicial Checks on Government Index
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 29,297 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Central estimate of the extent to which the executive respects the constitution, complies with the judiciary and high courts, and higher and lower courts are independent.