Iceland vs South Korea: Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration Score

Iceland
2.41
in 2025
South Korea
2.57
in 2025
Iceland rank
20th
South Korea rank
17th

Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration Score over time

  • Iceland
  • South Korea
-2-10123178919072025

How they compare

South Korea currently reports 2.57 against 2.41 in Iceland, a difference of 0.156.

That makes South Korea's figure about 1.1 times Iceland's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Iceland ahead.

Iceland ranks 20th and South Korea ranks 17th of 173 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,350 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of the extent to which public officials respect the law, and administer it without arbitrariness and bias.