Rule of Law - Governance score in Liberia

Liberia: Rule of Law - Governance score was 42.03 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
42.03 0-100
Change on year
up 1.3%
World rank
155th
of 206 countries
All-time high
43.66 0-100
in 2014
All-time low
19.85 0-100
in 1996
Years of data
26
1996–2024

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

0102030401996201020241996: 19.8 0-1001998: 23.9 0-1002000: 23.9 0-1002002: 24.4 0-1002003: 26.1 0-1002004: 31 0-1002005: 35.5 0-1002006: 42.7 0-1002007: 40.5 0-1002008: 41.4 0-1002009: 40.5 0-1002010: 41.6 0-1002011: 41.5 0-1002012: 42.6 0-1002013: 42.4 0-1002014: 43.7 0-1002015: 43.3 0-1002016: 43.1 0-1002017: 43.3 0-1002018: 42.7 0-1002019: 42 0-1002020: 42.2 0-1002021: 42.5 0-1002022: 42.2 0-1002023: 41.5 0-1002024: 42 0-100

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

Analysis

Liberia recorded 42.03 0-100 for rule of law - governance score in 2024.

That represents a change of up 1.3% on the previous year and down 3.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, rule of law - governance score in Liberia peaked at 43.66 0-100 in 2014 and was at its lowest, 19.85 0-100, in 1996.

Liberia ranks 155th of 206 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 21.9 0-100 19.85 0-100 23.95 0-100 2
2000s 34 0-100 23.9 0-100 42.68 0-100 9
2010s 42.61 0-100 41.52 0-100 43.66 0-100 10
2020s 42.08 0-100 41.48 0-100 42.46 0-100 5

Countries ranked near Liberia

  1. 152 Türkiye 42.45 0-100 compare
  2. 153 Eswatini 42.17 0-100 compare
  3. 154 Mauritania 42.1 0-100 compare
  4. 156 Madagascar 41.77 0-100 compare
  5. 157 Burkina Faso 41.75 0-100 compare
  6. 158 Kyrgyzstan 40.85 0-100 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is rule of law - governance score in Liberia?
Rule of law - governance score in Liberia was 42.03 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 Liberia?
The highest recorded value was 43.66 0-100 in 2014.
What is the lowest rule of law - governance score recorded in Liberia?
The lowest recorded value was 19.85 0-100 in 1996.
How does Liberia rank for rule of law - governance score?
Liberia ranks 155th out of 206 countries with data for 2024.
Is rule of law - governance score rising or falling in Liberia?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Liberia 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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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
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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).