Global Rankings: Rule Of Law (2023)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Finland	1.97
2	Denmark	1.91
3	Norway	1.83
4	Switzerland	1.76
5	Singapore	1.75
6	Luxembourg	1.75
7	Austria	1.75
8	Iceland	1.72
9	Liechtenstein	1.71
10	New Zealand	1.71
11	Greenland	1.68
12	Netherlands	1.64
13	Ireland	1.63
14	Sweden	1.60
15	Germany	1.55
16	Japan	1.54
17	Australia	1.52
18	Andorra	1.48
19	Monaco	1.48
20	San Marino	1.48
21	Canada	1.47
22	Estonia	1.43
23	United Kingdom	1.40
24	United States	1.33
25	Belgium	1.30
26	Hong Kong	1.29
27	Aruba	1.27
28	Lithuania	1.27
29	Korea, Republic of	1.25
30	American Samoa	1.21
31	France	1.18
32	Czechia	1.14
33	Portugal	1.07
34	Latvia	1.04
35	Slovenia	1.04
36	Tuvalu	1.01
37	Guam	0.95
38	Virgin Islands, U.S.	0.95
39	Palau	0.94
40	Qatar	0.93
41	Samoa	0.90
42	Brunei Darussalam	0.89
43	United Arab Emirates	0.88
44	Spain	0.82
45	Mauritius	0.81
46	Israel	0.78
47	Macao	0.78
48	Cayman Islands	0.72
49	Uruguay	0.72
50	Malta	0.70
51	Bermuda	0.68
52	Marshall Islands	0.68
53	Bhutan	0.67
54	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.64
55	Cyprus	0.63
56	Chile	0.63
57	Dominica	0.62
58	Oman	0.61
59	Saint Lucia	0.61
60	Grenada	0.60
61	Slovakia	0.60
62	Kiribati	0.59
63	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.57
64	Malaysia	0.57
65	Tonga	0.55
66	Puerto Rico	0.49
67	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.48
68	Bahrain	0.47
69	Poland	0.46
70	Namibia	0.45
71	Romania	0.44
72	Seychelles	0.43
73	Hungary	0.43
74	Saudi Arabia	0.41
75	Barbados	0.41
76	Cabo Verde	0.40
77	Botswana	0.39
78	Italy	0.39
79	Costa Rica	0.39
80	Antigua and Barbuda	0.38
81	Croatia	0.36
82	Kuwait	0.34
83	Fiji	0.30
84	Jordan	0.26
85	Thailand	0.24
86	Greece	0.21
87	Rwanda	0.21
88	India	0.19
89	Bahamas	0.18
90	Georgia	0.18
91	Vanuatu	0.14
92	South Africa	0.09
93	Bulgaria	-0.01
94	Nauru	-0.02
95	China	-0.04
96	Montenegro	-0.04
97	Suriname	-0.06
98	Serbia	-0.07
99	Maldives	-0.08
100	Viet Nam	-0.09
101	Sri Lanka	-0.09
102	Ghana	-0.10
103	Armenia	-0.12
104	Morocco	-0.13
105	Dominican Republic	-0.13
106	Tunisia	-0.14
107	Moldova, Republic of	-0.15
108	Indonesia	-0.15
109	Malawi	-0.16
110	Albania	-0.16
111	North Macedonia	-0.17
112	Jamaica	-0.17
113	Egypt	-0.18
114	Mongolia	-0.18
115	Solomon Islands	-0.26
116	Senegal	-0.27
117	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.28
118	Brazil	-0.31
119	Kenya	-0.33
120	Guyana	-0.34
121	Panama	-0.35
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.35
123	El Salvador	-0.37
124	Tanzania, United Republic of	-0.37
125	Gambia	-0.37
126	Argentina	-0.41
127	Philippines	-0.42
128	Kazakhstan	-0.45
129	Cuba	-0.45
130	Colombia	-0.46
131	Côte d'Ivoire	-0.46
132	Nepal	-0.46
133	Uganda	-0.47
134	Lesotho	-0.48
135	Bangladesh	-0.50
136	Benin	-0.51
137	Türkiye	-0.51
138	Togo	-0.53
139	Zambia	-0.53
140	Peru	-0.54
141	Papua New Guinea	-0.54
142	Azerbaijan	-0.57
143	Paraguay	-0.58
144	Eswatini	-0.60
145	Belize	-0.64
146	Mauritania	-0.64
147	Ethiopia	-0.67
148	Algeria	-0.68
149	Palestine, State of	-0.68
150	Sao Tome and Principe	-0.69
151	Niger	-0.71
152	Burkina Faso	-0.74
153	Mexico	-0.81
154	Cambodia	-0.82
155	Uzbekistan	-0.83
156	Lao People's Democratic Republic	-0.83
157	Sierra Leone	-0.83
158	Timor-Leste	-0.83
159	Pakistan	-0.86
160	Gabon	-0.87
161	Nigeria	-0.89
162	Ukraine	-0.89
163	Ecuador	-0.96
164	Madagascar	-0.97
165	Mali	-0.98
166	Congo	-1.02
167	Mozambique	-1.03
168	Liberia	-1.03
169	Cameroon	-1.04
170	Iran, Islamic Republic of	-1.06
171	Guatemala	-1.08
172	Honduras	-1.10
173	Angola	-1.10
174	Guinea	-1.11
175	Djibouti	-1.13
176	Lebanon	-1.17
177	Kyrgyzstan	-1.17
178	Russian Federation	-1.19
179	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	-1.22
180	Belarus	-1.25
181	Burundi	-1.25
182	Zimbabwe	-1.28
183	Tajikistan	-1.28
184	Nicaragua	-1.28
185	Equatorial Guinea	-1.34
186	Comoros	-1.34
187	Chad	-1.35
188	Haiti	-1.36
189	Guinea-Bissau	-1.44
190	Turkmenistan	-1.49
191	Myanmar	-1.62
192	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	-1.64
193	Afghanistan	-1.65
194	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	-1.67
195	Sudan	-1.67
196	Iraq	-1.69
197	Central African Republic	-1.76
198	Eritrea	-1.76
199	Libya	-1.77
200	Yemen	-1.84
201	Syrian Arab Republic	-2.04
202	South Sudan	-2.14
203	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	-2.15
204	Somalia	-2.21

About This Indicator

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) are a research dataset summarizing the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. Governance consists of the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised. This includes the process by which governments are selected, monitored and replaced; the capacity of the government to effectively formulate and implement sound policies; and the respect of citizens and the state for the institutions that govern economic and social interactions among them. The WGI measures six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. Rule of Law captures perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5. For each dimension of governance the following information is available in the database: estimate, percentile rank, lower bound of 90% confidence interval, upper bound of 90% confidence interval, standard error, number of sources.

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators