Namibia vs Vanuatu: Rule of Law Index

Namibia

0.817

in 2025

Vanuatu

0.822

in 2025

Namibia rank

44th

Vanuatu rank

42nd

Rule of Law Index over time

Namibia
Vanuatu

How they compare

Vanuatu 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 Vanuatu ahead.

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

Individual pages

Rule of Law Index in Namibia
Rule of Law Index in Vanuatu
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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.