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Rule of Law (standard error) by country

See definition GV.RULE.LW.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which...

Countries reporting
53
Highest
0.1905 standard error
Comoros
Lowest
0.1241 standard error
South Africa
Median
0.1348 standard error
Years covered
16
1996–2011
Data points
689

What the numbers show

Rule of Law (standard error) is currently reported for 53 countries. The highest value is 0.1905 standard error in Comoros; the lowest is 0.1241 standard error in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1348 standard error, and the mean is 0.1391 standard error.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Rule of Law: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Comoros 0.1905 standard error 2011 down 24.6% falling
2 Guinea-Bissau 0.1855 standard error 2011 down 17.9% falling
3 Somalia 0.1827 standard error 2011 down 30.0% falling
4 Seychelles 0.1538 standard error 2011 down 39.1% falling
5 Sao Tome and Principe 0.1529 standard error 2011 down 39.5% falling
6 Equatorial Guinea 0.152 standard error 2011 down 13.7% falling
7 Djibouti 0.1517 standard error 2011 down 34.9% falling
8 Eritrea 0.1471 standard error 2011 down 41.8% falling
9 Guinea 0.1469 standard error 2011 down 35.0% falling
10 Libya 0.1468 standard error 2011 down 18.8% falling
11 Sudan 0.146 standard error 2011 down 18.9% falling
12 Burundi 0.1447 standard error 2011 down 42.7% falling
13 Gambia 0.1443 standard error 2011 down 36.1% falling
14 Eswatini 0.1443 standard error 2011 down 38.1% falling
15 Cape Verde 0.1442 standard error 2011 down 60.4% falling
16 Sierra Leone 0.1431 standard error 2011 down 42.8% falling
17 Lesotho 0.1424 standard error 2011 down 38.9% falling
18 Rwanda 0.1411 standard error 2011 down 39.5% falling
19 Liberia 0.1406 standard error 2011 down 42.3% falling
20 Central African Republic 0.1387 standard error 2011 down 45.1% falling
21 Gabon 0.1384 standard error 2011 down 19.8% falling
22 Togo 0.1366 standard error 2011 down 39.3% falling
22 Congo 0.1366 standard error 2011 down 39.6% falling
22 Niger 0.1366 standard error 2011 down 39.6% falling
25 Malawi 0.1366 standard error 2011 down 21.1% falling
26 Mauritius 0.1348 standard error 2011 down 30.7% falling
26 Chad 0.1348 standard error 2011 down 42.2% falling
28 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.1345 standard error 2011 down 46.3% falling
29 Morocco 0.1335 standard error 2011 down 22.6% falling
30 Mauritania 0.1328 standard error 2011 down 43.0% falling
31 Benin 0.1328 standard error 2011 down 42.7% falling
32 Namibia 0.132 standard error 2011 down 23.7% falling
33 Cameroon 0.1319 standard error 2011 down 23.5% falling
34 Algeria 0.1311 standard error 2011 down 24.2% falling
35 Tunisia 0.1309 standard error 2011 down 24.3% falling
35 Cote d'Ivoire 0.1309 standard error 2011 down 24.1% falling
37 Botswana 0.1309 standard error 2011 down 24.3% falling
38 Ethiopia 0.13 standard error 2011 down 24.6% falling
38 Egypt 0.13 standard error 2011 down 19.4% falling
38 Angola 0.13 standard error 2011 down 27.8% falling
41 Zambia 0.129 standard error 2011 down 25.4% falling
41 Senegal 0.129 standard error 2011 down 25.4% falling
41 Mozambique 0.129 standard error 2011 down 25.4% falling
41 Mali 0.129 standard error 2011 down 42.6% falling
41 Madagascar 0.129 standard error 2011 down 42.9% falling
46 Uganda 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 25.7% falling
46 Tanzania 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 25.9% falling
46 Zimbabwe 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 20.5% falling
46 Burkina Faso 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 43.0% falling
46 Nigeria 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 20.3% falling
46 Kenya 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 25.9% falling
46 Ghana 0.1282 standard error 2011 down 25.7% falling
53 South Africa 0.1241 standard error 2011 down 19.6% falling

About this data

Indicator
Rule of Law (standard error)
Unit
standard error
Source
World Bank Institute
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
53 places, 689 data points, 1996–2011
Last refreshed

See definition GV.RULE.LW.ES. Inherent to all Governance Indicators is a margin of error, which might vary from country to country, normally attributable to two factors: (i) cross-country differences in the number of sources in which a country appears, and (ii) differences in the precision of the sources in which each country appears.