Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) by country
Rule of Law (RL) captures perceptions of the extent to which agents respect and follow the rules of society, including contract enforcement, property rights, the police, courts, and the likelihood of crime and violence. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical...
Countries reporting
208
Highest
91.78 0-100
Finland
Lowest
22.4 0-100
Venezuela
Median
56.67 0-100
Years covered
30
1996–2025
Data points
5,527
What the numbers show
Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) is currently reported for 208 countries. The highest value is 91.78 0-100 in Finland; the lowest is 22.4 0-100 in Venezuela.
The median across all reporting countries is 56.67 0-100, and the mean is 57.89 0-100.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.
Over the past decade 90 countries rose and 118 fell. The largest increase was in Maldives (up 20.0%), and the largest decrease in Nicaragua (down 24.6%).
Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland | 91.78 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 2 | Denmark | 91.75 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 3 | Norway | 90.61 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.4% | flat |
| 4 | Sweden | 87.29 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 5 | Switzerland | 87.27 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 6 | Liechtenstein | 86.82 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.0% | rising |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 86.77 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 8 | Netherlands | 86.2 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.6% | flat |
| 9 | New Zealand | 85.92 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 10 | Austria | 85.83 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.1% | flat |
| 11 | Monaco | 85.8 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.7% | rising |
| 12 | Iceland | 85.18 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 13 | Germany | 85.07 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.2% | flat |
| 14 | Greenland | 84.78 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 15 | Andorra | 84.61 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.7% | rising |
| 16 | Ireland | 84.15 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 17 | Japan | 84.05 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.2% | rising |
| 18 | Singapore | 83.17 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 19 | Canada | 82.97 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.7% | flat |
| 20 | Australia | 82.67 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.0% | flat |
| 21 | San Marino | 82.44 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.4% | rising |
| 22 | Estonia | 82.25 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 23 | Lithuania | 81.23 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.4% | rising |
| 24 | Tuvalu | 80.93 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 25 | American Samoa | 80.85 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.1% | rising |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 79.53 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 27 | Belgium | 79.49 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.9% | flat |
| 28 | Aruba | 78.83 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 29 | South Korea | 78.33 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.0% | rising |
| 30 | Palau | 77.93 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 31 | Czechia | 77.91 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 32 | Latvia | 76.31 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 33 | Samoa | 76.11 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 34 | Portugal | 75.88 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.0% | flat |
| 35 | Guam | 74.72 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.7% | flat |
| 36 | Micronesia (country) | 74.63 0-100 | 2025 | up 18.7% | falling |
| 37 | France | 74.61 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 38 | Cayman Islands | 74.52 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.1% | falling |
| 39 | Marshall Islands | 74.33 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 40 | Hong Kong | 74.14 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.4% | flat |
| 41 | Uruguay | 74.11 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.4% | rising |
| 42 | Slovenia | 73.82 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.2% | flat |
| 43 | Kiribati | 72.98 0-100 | 2025 | up 10.7% | flat |
| 44 | Spain | 72.96 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 45 | Macao | 72.73 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.6% | rising |
| 46 | Bermuda | 71.94 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.9% | falling |
| 47 | United States | 71.67 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.4% | falling |
| 48 | Tonga | 71.39 0-100 | 2025 | up 19.1% | flat |
| 49 | Cyprus | 70.8 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 50 | Bhutan | 70.52 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.9% | rising |
| 51 | Barbados | 70.49 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.9% | falling |
| 52 | Chile | 69.84 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.3% | falling |
| 53 | Israel | 69.78 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.4% | flat |
| 54 | Mauritius | 69.77 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.2% | flat |
| 55 | Brunei | 69.73 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.2% | falling |
| 56 | Malta | 69.61 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 57 | French Polynesia | 69.33 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.7% | flat |
| 58 | Costa Rica | 68.56 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.9% | flat |
| 59 | Italy | 68.28 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.4% | falling |
| 60 | Grenada | 68.21 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.5% | rising |
| 61 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 68.19 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.0% | falling |
| 62 | Seychelles | 68.15 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.5% | flat |
| 63 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 68.15 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.1% | falling |
| 64 | United States Virgin Islands | 68.02 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.2% | falling |
| 65 | Antigua and Barbuda | 68.01 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.6% | falling |
| 66 | Poland | 68.01 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.0% | flat |
| 67 | Saint Lucia | 67.99 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.4% | falling |
| 68 | Puerto Rico | 67.96 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.9% | falling |
| 69 | Qatar | 67.91 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.1% | rising |
| 70 | United Arab Emirates | 67.59 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.9% | flat |
| 71 | Vanuatu | 67.34 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 72 | Oman | 66.9 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.9% | flat |
| 73 | Cape Verde | 66.13 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.1% | flat |
| 74 | Slovakia | 66.05 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 75 | Dominica | 65.63 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.1% | falling |
| 76 | Croatia | 65.56 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.4% | rising |
| 77 | Fiji | 65.54 0-100 | 2025 | up 19.3% | rising |
| 78 | Malaysia | 65.36 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.4% | flat |
| 79 | Namibia | 64.83 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.5% | flat |
| 80 | Romania | 63.53 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.5% | rising |
| 81 | Greece | 63.33 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 82 | Botswana | 63.26 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.1% | falling |
| 83 | Saudi Arabia | 63.14 0-100 | 2025 | up 16.3% | flat |
| 84 | Nauru | 63.1 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.8% | falling |
| 85 | New Caledonia | 62.87 0-100 | 2025 | down 16.2% | falling |
| 86 | Bahamas | 62.41 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.6% | falling |
| 87 | Hungary | 62.18 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 88 | Montenegro | 62.06 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.7% | flat |
| 89 | Kuwait | 61.87 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.7% | falling |
| 90 | Jordan | 61.79 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 91 | Bahrain | 61.59 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.3% | falling |
| 92 | Solomon Islands | 61.59 0-100 | 2025 | up 10.7% | falling |
| 93 | Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) | 60.44 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.1% | falling |
| 94 | Rwanda | 60.25 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 95 | Georgia | 60.2 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.5% | rising |
| 96 | South Africa | 59.3 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 97 | Ghana | 58.61 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.9% | rising |
| 98 | Maldives | 58.45 0-100 | 2025 | up 20.0% | flat |
| 99 | Jamaica | 58.14 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.1% | rising |
| 100 | Albania | 57.99 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.3% | rising |
| 101 | Bulgaria | 57.88 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.2% | flat |
| 102 | Kosovo | 57.86 0-100 | 2024 | up 12.7% | falling |
| 103 | Argentina | 56.94 0-100 | 2025 | up 10.9% | flat |
| 104 | Mongolia | 56.72 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.9% | falling |
| 105 | Thailand | 56.62 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.9% | falling |
| 106 | Dominican Republic | 56.6 0-100 | 2025 | up 11.3% | rising |
| 107 | India | 56.51 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 108 | Malawi | 56.39 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.7% | rising |
| 109 | North Macedonia | 56.3 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 110 | Moldova | 56.12 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.4% | flat |
| 111 | Vietnam | 55.75 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.6% | rising |
| 112 | Senegal | 55.46 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.2% | flat |
| 113 | Sri Lanka | 55.22 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.5% | falling |
| 114 | Suriname | 55.05 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 115 | Indonesia | 54.44 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 116 | Armenia | 54.26 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.6% | rising |
| 117 | Panama | 53.64 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.8% | flat |
| 118 | Nepal | 53.58 0-100 | 2025 | up 10.8% | flat |
| 119 | Guyana | 53.48 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.4% | flat |
| 120 | Serbia | 53.34 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.2% | rising |
| 121 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 53.03 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.9% | flat |
| 122 | Morocco | 53.01 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.3% | falling |
| 123 | Trinidad and Tobago | 52.88 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.1% | falling |
| 124 | Belize | 52.52 0-100 | 2025 | up 7.5% | falling |
| 125 | Tunisia | 52.19 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.6% | flat |
| 126 | Gambia | 52.12 0-100 | 2025 | up 19.8% | falling |
| 127 | Kazakhstan | 51.9 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 128 | China | 51.56 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 129 | Sao Tome and Principe | 51.16 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.9% | falling |
| 130 | Benin | 51.12 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.4% | falling |
| 131 | Azerbaijan | 51.1 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.1% | rising |
| 132 | Lesotho | 50.97 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.3% | falling |
| 133 | Philippines | 50.87 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.1% | falling |
| 134 | Kenya | 50.82 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.4% | rising |
| 135 | Brazil | 50.63 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 136 | Zambia | 50.52 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.0% | flat |
| 137 | Cote d'Ivoire | 50.04 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.0% | rising |
| 138 | Tanzania | 49.22 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 139 | Papua New Guinea | 49.2 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 140 | Togo | 48.29 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 141 | Colombia | 48.28 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.1% | rising |
| 142 | Paraguay | 48.23 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.7% | rising |
| 143 | Laos | 48.08 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.2% | rising |
| 144 | East Timor | 48.07 0-100 | 2025 | up 15.5% | falling |
| 145 | Uzbekistan | 48.06 0-100 | 2025 | up 18.2% | rising |
| 146 | Algeria | 47.88 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.0% | rising |
| 147 | Peru | 47.78 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.0% | rising |
| 148 | Uganda | 47.58 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.0% | flat |
| 149 | Egypt | 47.29 0-100 | 2025 | up 3.4% | falling |
| 150 | El Salvador | 47 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.7% | flat |
| 151 | Eswatini | 45.79 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.5% | falling |
| 152 | Ukraine | 45.64 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.0% | rising |
| 153 | Mauritania | 45.31 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.5% | falling |
| 154 | Turkey | 45.25 0-100 | 2025 | down 11.8% | falling |
| 155 | Sierra Leone | 44.74 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.0% | rising |
| 156 | Liberia | 44.64 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.8% | rising |
| 157 | Bangladesh | 43.64 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.6% | rising |
| 158 | Burkina Faso | 43.48 0-100 | 2025 | down 13.3% | flat |
| 159 | Kyrgyzstan | 43.28 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.4% | flat |
| 160 | Ethiopia | 43.18 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.5% | flat |
| 161 | Madagascar | 43.05 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.7% | falling |
| 162 | Nigeria | 42.95 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 163 | Comoros | 42.89 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.2% | flat |
| 164 | Palestine | 42.79 0-100 | 2025 | down 3.8% | falling |
| 165 | Djibouti | 41.79 0-100 | 2025 | down 1.0% | falling |
| 166 | Gabon | 41.77 0-100 | 2025 | down 13.1% | falling |
| 167 | Guatemala | 41.63 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.3% | flat |
| 168 | Ecuador | 41.6 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 169 | Cambodia | 41.35 0-100 | 2025 | up 8.4% | rising |
| 170 | Lebanon | 41.24 0-100 | 2025 | down 9.4% | falling |
| 171 | Pakistan | 41.06 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.9% | flat |
| 172 | Cuba | 40.83 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 173 | Angola | 40.1 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 174 | Niger | 40.06 0-100 | 2025 | down 18.6% | flat |
| 175 | Honduras | 39.62 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.1% | falling |
| 176 | Mexico | 39.38 0-100 | 2025 | down 17.5% | falling |
| 177 | Mozambique | 39.23 0-100 | 2025 | down 12.1% | falling |
| 178 | Mali | 39.08 0-100 | 2025 | down 15.7% | falling |
| 179 | Cameroon | 38.97 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.6% | flat |
| 180 | Guinea | 38.73 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.4% | rising |
| 181 | Iran | 38.57 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.4% | falling |
| 182 | Zimbabwe | 38.57 0-100 | 2025 | up 9.0% | rising |
| 183 | Tajikistan | 38.48 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.4% | flat |
| 184 | Belarus | 38.41 0-100 | 2025 | down 16.4% | falling |
| 185 | Congo | 38.09 0-100 | 2025 | down 7.9% | rising |
| 186 | Guinea-Bissau | 37.73 0-100 | 2025 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 187 | Russia | 37.66 0-100 | 2025 | down 13.3% | flat |
| 188 | Bolivia | 36.42 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.0% | falling |
| 189 | Iraq | 35.72 0-100 | 2025 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 190 | Chad | 35.39 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.2% | falling |
| 191 | Turkmenistan | 35.28 0-100 | 2025 | down 0.3% | falling |
| 192 | Burundi | 35.02 0-100 | 2025 | down 5.6% | flat |
| 193 | North Korea | 34.14 0-100 | 2025 | up 12.1% | falling |
| 194 | Equatorial Guinea | 33.24 0-100 | 2025 | down 2.6% | falling |
| 195 | Nicaragua | 32.49 0-100 | 2025 | down 24.6% | falling |
| 196 | Haiti | 31.98 0-100 | 2025 | down 18.6% | rising |
| 197 | Libya | 31.46 0-100 | 2025 | up 4.8% | falling |
| 198 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 31.21 0-100 | 2025 | down 4.6% | rising |
| 199 | Central African Republic | 30.67 0-100 | 2025 | up 0.5% | falling |
| 200 | Myanmar | 29.49 0-100 | 2025 | down 24.4% | rising |
| 201 | Eritrea | 29.48 0-100 | 2025 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 202 | Syria | 28.73 0-100 | 2025 | down 8.0% | falling |
| 203 | Afghanistan | 28.13 0-100 | 2025 | down 10.0% | rising |
| 204 | Sudan | 28.03 0-100 | 2025 | down 18.5% | flat |
| 205 | Yemen | 26.62 0-100 | 2025 | down 19.8% | falling |
| 206 | South Sudan | 25.26 0-100 | 2025 | down 17.7% | falling |
| 207 | Somalia | 22.92 0-100 | 2025 | up 2.7% | rising |
| 208 | Venezuela | 22.4 0-100 | 2025 | up 6.4% | falling |
About this data
Rule of Law (RL) captures perceptions of the extent to which agents respect and follow the rules of society, including contract enforcement, property rights, the police, courts, and the likelihood of crime and violence. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).