Barbados vs Costa Rica: Transparent laws

Barbados
1
in 2025
Costa Rica
1
in 2025
Barbados rank
1st
Costa Rica rank
1st

Transparent laws over time

  • Barbados
  • Costa Rica
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How they compare

Barbados currently reports 1 against 1 in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.

Across all 126 years both countries report, Costa Rica has been ahead every year.

Barbados ranks 1st and Costa Rica ranks 1st of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Transparent laws
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 30,229 data points, 1789–2025
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Central estimate of whether laws are transparent, coherent, and relatively stable, and their enforcement predictable.