Rule of Law - Governance score in Brazil

Brazil: Rule of Law - Governance score was 49.28 0-100 in 2024. β–¬ Flat

Latest (2024)
49.28 0-100
Change on year
up 1.3%
World rank
129th
of 206 countries
All-time high
56.25 0-100
in 2010
All-time low
48.65 0-100
in 2023
Years of data
26
1996–2024

Rule of Law - Governance score in Brazil, 1996–2024

02040601996201020241996: 51.1 0-1001998: 50.6 0-1002000: 50.7 0-1002002: 51.8 0-1002003: 50.3 0-1002004: 51.9 0-1002005: 50.9 0-1002006: 51.7 0-1002007: 51.6 0-1002008: 52.7 0-1002009: 53.4 0-1002010: 56.3 0-1002011: 55.7 0-1002012: 56.2 0-1002013: 54.6 0-1002014: 54.5 0-1002015: 53.1 0-1002016: 54.4 0-1002017: 52.1 0-1002018: 50.1 0-1002019: 50.3 0-1002020: 50.2 0-1002021: 49.9 0-1002022: 49.4 0-1002023: 48.7 0-1002024: 49.3 0-100

Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.

Analysis

Brazil recorded 49.28 0-100 for rule of law - governance score in 2024.

That represents a change of up 1.3% on the previous year and down 9.6% over ten years.

Over the whole period, rule of law - governance score in Brazil peaked at 56.25 0-100 in 2010 and was at its lowest, 48.65 0-100, in 2023.

Brazil ranks 129th of 206 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 50.85 0-100 50.6 0-100 51.1 0-100 2
2000s 51.67 0-100 50.3 0-100 53.43 0-100 9
2010s 53.73 0-100 50.05 0-100 56.25 0-100 10
2020s 49.49 0-100 48.65 0-100 50.22 0-100 5

Countries ranked near Brazil

  1. 126 Belize 50.13 0-100 compare
  2. 127 Lesotho, Kingdom of 49.97 0-100 compare
  3. 128 Benin 49.87 0-100 compare
  4. 130 Kenya 48.97 0-100 compare
  5. 131 Azerbaijan, Republic of 48.61 0-100 compare
  6. 132 Peru 48.26 0-100 compare

See the full ranking of 206 places β†’

More reference data data for Brazil

All data for Brazil β†’

Frequently asked questions

What is rule of law - governance score in Brazil?
Rule of law - governance score in Brazil was 49.28 0-100 in 2024, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
What is the highest rule of law - governance score recorded in Brazil?
The highest recorded value was 56.25 0-100 in 2010.
What is the lowest rule of law - governance score recorded in Brazil?
The lowest recorded value was 48.65 0-100 in 2023.
How does Brazil rank for rule of law - governance score?
Brazil ranks 129th out of 206 countries with data for 2024.
Is rule of law - governance score rising or falling in Brazil?
Over the last ten years it is down 9.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Brazil data come from?
The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV Β· JSON β€” 26 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Rule of Law - Governance score in Brazil. Statizoid, drawing on The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Retrieved 18 August 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/rule-of-law-governance-score-0-100/brazil/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/rule-of-law-governance-score-0-100/brazil/">Rule of Law - Governance score in Brazil</a> β€” Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
206 places, 5,270 data points, 1996–2024
Last refreshed

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).