Botswana vs Namibia: Rule of Law Index

Botswana
0.822
in 2025
Namibia
0.817
in 2025
Botswana rank
42nd
Namibia rank
44th

Rule of Law Index over time

  • Botswana
  • Namibia
0.40.60.81190019622025

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 0.822 against 0.817 in Namibia, a difference of 0.005.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 42nd and Namibia ranks 44th of 173 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Rule of Law Index
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,303 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed

Central estimate of the extent to which the government complies with the law, courts are independent, laws transparent, justice accessible, corruption absent, and the bureaucracy is impartial.