Japan vs Netherlands: Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration Score

Japan
1.64
in 2025
Netherlands
1.87
in 2025
Japan rank
31st
Netherlands rank
28th

Rigorous and Impartial Public Administration Score over time

  • Japan
  • Netherlands
-202178919072025

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 1.87 against 1.64 in Japan, a difference of 0.237.

That makes Netherlands's figure about 1.1 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 31st and Netherlands ranks 28th 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.