Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) in Canada
Canada: Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) was 82.97 0-100 in 2025. ▬ Flat
Rule of Law - Governance score in Canada, 1996–2025
Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.
Analysis
Canada recorded 82.97 0-100 for rule of law - governance score in 2025.
That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 4.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, rule of law - governance score in Canada peaked at 88.26 0-100 in 2006 and was at its lowest, 82.8 0-100, in 2023.
That places Canada 19th out of 208 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.
Rule of Law - Governance score (0-100) in Canada, year by year
| Year | 0-100 | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 86.84 0-100 | — |
| 1998 | 86.79 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2000 | 87.61 0-100 | +0.9% |
| 2002 | 87.48 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2003 | 86.6 0-100 | -1.0% |
| 2004 | 86.17 0-100 | -0.5% |
| 2005 | 85.87 0-100 | -0.3% |
| 2006 | 88.26 0-100 | +2.8% |
| 2007 | 86.9 0-100 | -1.5% |
| 2008 | 86.44 0-100 | -0.5% |
| 2009 | 85.38 0-100 | -1.2% |
| 2010 | 84.78 0-100 | -0.7% |
| 2011 | 84.68 0-100 | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 85.08 0-100 | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 85.05 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2014 | 85.86 0-100 | +1.0% |
| 2015 | 87.09 0-100 | +1.4% |
| 2016 | 87.11 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 86.97 0-100 | -0.2% |
| 2018 | 86.96 0-100 | -0.0% |
| 2019 | 86.48 0-100 | -0.5% |
| 2020 | 84.68 0-100 | -2.1% |
| 2021 | 84.72 0-100 | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 83.92 0-100 | -0.9% |
| 2023 | 82.8 0-100 | -1.3% |
| 2024 | 83.05 0-100 | +0.3% |
| 2025 | 82.97 0-100 | -0.1% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 82.97 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 73.39 0-100, 1.1× the median. (76 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 86.81 0-100 | 86.79 0-100 | 86.84 0-100 | 2 |
| 2000s | 86.75 0-100 | 85.38 0-100 | 88.26 0-100 | 9 |
| 2010s | 86.01 0-100 | 84.68 0-100 | 87.11 0-100 | 10 |
| 2020s | 83.69 0-100 | 82.8 0-100 | 84.72 0-100 | 6 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is rule of law - governance score in Canada?
- Rule of law - governance score in Canada was 82.97 0-100 in 2025, 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 Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 88.26 0-100 in 2006.
- What is the lowest rule of law - governance score recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 82.8 0-100 in 2023.
- How does Canada rank for rule of law - governance score?
- Canada ranks 19th out of 208 countries with data for 2025.
- Is rule of law - governance score rising or falling in Canada?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Canada 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.
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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).