economic2024

Rule of law governance score

Name: Rule of law governance score
Creator: World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, governance-rule-law, gov_wgi_rl_sc

Compare rule of law governance score across 205 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source dataset.

Source: World Development Indicators•205 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

56.0score (0–100)

Median: 54.4score (0–100)

Countries Covered

205

with available data

Highest

Finland

91.8score (0–100)

Lowest

Somalia

19.0score (0–100)

Top 5 Countries

1Finland91.8score (0–100)

2Denmark91.5score (0–100)

3Norway90.5score (0–100)

4Switzerland87.3score (0–100)

5Luxembourg87.3score (0–100)

By Region

Key Findings

•Coverage: 205 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2024.
•Published range: 19.0073717 to 91.7521973 score (0–100).
•Discovery motivation: Google Trends surfaced the White House and worldwide X mirrors surfaced Supreme Court discussion, motivating rule-of-law comparison.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (19.0score (0–100))High (91.8score (0–100))

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 56.0score (0–100))

About This Statistic

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).

MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.

Methodology

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).

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Finland	91.8score (0–100)
2	Denmark	91.5score (0–100)
3	Norway	90.5score (0–100)
4	Switzerland	87.3score (0–100)
5	Luxembourg	87.3score (0–100)
6	Liechtenstein	86.7score (0–100)
7	Sweden	86.7score (0–100)
8	Netherlands	86.3score (0–100)
9	Austria	85.8score (0–100)
10	New Zealand	85.7score (0–100)
11	Iceland	85.0score (0–100)
12	Germany	84.9score (0–100)
13	Ireland	84.4score (0–100)
14	Greenland	84.1score (0–100)
15	Japan	83.0score (0–100)
16	Estonia	82.5score (0–100)
17	Australia	82.3score (0–100)
18	Canada	82.1score (0–100)
19	Singapore	81.6score (0–100)
20	Lithuania	80.6score (0–100)
21	Monaco	80.1score (0–100)
22	Belgium	79.0score (0–100)
23	United Kingdom	78.8score (0–100)
24	Tuvalu	78.0score (0–100)
25	Aruba	78.0score (0–100)
26	Czech Republic	77.4score (0–100)
27	Palau	77.1score (0–100)
28	San Marino	76.9score (0–100)
29	South Korea	76.2score (0–100)
30	Latvia	75.7score (0–100)
31	American Samoa	75.7score (0–100)
32	New Caledonia	75.6score (0–100)
33	Portugal	75.4score (0–100)
34	Samoa	75.1score (0–100)
35	Guam	74.8score (0–100)
36	French Polynesia	74.5score (0–100)
37	Slovenia	73.8score (0–100)
38	France	73.8score (0–100)
39	Micronesia, Federated States of	73.8score (0–100)
40	United States of America	73.5score (0–100)
41	Uruguay	73.3score (0–100)
42	Spain	73.0score (0–100)
43	Hong Kong	72.8score (0–100)
44	Macao	71.6score (0–100)
45	Marshall Islands	71.3score (0–100)
46	Cayman Islands	71.3score (0–100)
47	Bermuda	70.7score (0–100)
48	Bhutan	70.6score (0–100)
49	Kiribati	70.5score (0–100)
50	Barbados	69.5score (0–100)
51	Malta	69.5score (0–100)
52	Tonga	68.9score (0–100)
53	Chile	68.9score (0–100)
54	Cyprus	68.8score (0–100)
55	Mauritius	68.0score (0–100)
56	Italy	67.6score (0–100)
57	Costa Rica	67.6score (0–100)
58	Antigua and Barbuda	67.3score (0–100)
59	Israel	67.3score (0–100)
60	Seychelles	67.2score (0–100)
61	Saint Kitts and Nevis	67.1score (0–100)
62	Qatar	67.1score (0–100)
63	Brunei Darussalam	67.1score (0–100)
64	Virgin Islands, U.S.	66.9score (0–100)
65	Poland	66.9score (0–100)
66	Slovakia	66.6score (0–100)
67	Puerto Rico	66.4score (0–100)
68	Grenada	66.3score (0–100)
69	Saint Lucia	65.6score (0–100)
70	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	65.6score (0–100)
71	United Arab Emirates	65.5score (0–100)
72	Oman	64.7score (0–100)
73	Cape Verde	64.3score (0–100)
74	Vanuatu	64.2score (0–100)
75	Dominica	63.8score (0–100)
76	Croatia	63.5score (0–100)
77	Romania	63.4score (0–100)
78	Malaysia	62.9score (0–100)
79	Namibia	62.6score (0–100)
80	Botswana	62.3score (0–100)
81	Fiji	62.2score (0–100)
82	Greece	62.1score (0–100)
83	Nauru	61.3score (0–100)
84	Bahamas	61.3score (0–100)
85	Kuwait	60.9score (0–100)
86	Saudi Arabia	60.6score (0–100)
87	Hungary	60.3score (0–100)
88	Montenegro	60.1score (0–100)
89	Jordan	59.9score (0–100)
90	Bahrain	59.9score (0–100)
91	Solomon Islands	59.6score (0–100)
92	Georgia	59.5score (0–100)
93	Rwanda	58.7score (0–100)
94	Ghana	57.9score (0–100)
95	Maldives	57.7score (0–100)
96	South Africa	57.3score (0–100)
97	Bulgaria	56.4score (0–100)
98	India	56.3score (0–100)
99	Jamaica	55.6score (0–100)
100	Mongolia	55.2score (0–100)
101	Albania	54.9score (0–100)
102	Armenia	54.5score (0–100)
103	Malawi	54.4score (0–100)
104	Moldova, Republic of	54.2score (0–100)
105	Dominican Republic	53.8score (0–100)
106	Serbia	53.5score (0–100)
107	Senegal	53.4score (0–100)
108	Indonesia	53.4score (0–100)
109	Suriname	53.4score (0–100)
110	Thailand	53.3score (0–100)
111	The Republic of North Macedonia	53.1score (0–100)
112	Argentina	52.6score (0–100)
113	Sri Lanka	52.5score (0–100)
114	Panama	52.4score (0–100)
115	Nepal	51.7score (0–100)
116	Vietnam	51.6score (0–100)
117	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.5score (0–100)
118	Guyana	51.2score (0–100)
119	Sao Tome and Principe	50.9score (0–100)
120	Tunisia	50.7score (0–100)
121	Morocco	50.6score (0–100)
122	Trinidad and Tobago	50.6score (0–100)
123	Kazakhstan	50.4score (0–100)
124	Republic of The Gambia	50.2score (0–100)
125	Belize	50.1score (0–100)
126	Lesotho	50.0score (0–100)
127	Benin	49.9score (0–100)
128	Brazil	49.3score (0–100)
129	Kenya	49.0score (0–100)
130	Azerbaijan	48.6score (0–100)
131	Peru	48.3score (0–100)
132	United Republic of Tanzania	48.0score (0–100)
133	Colombia	47.3score (0–100)
134	Zambia	47.3score (0–100)
135	Papua New Guinea	47.1score (0–100)
136	Philippines	47.1score (0–100)
137	Cote d'Ivoire	47.0score (0–100)
138	People's Republic of China	47.0score (0–100)
139	Paraguay	46.9score (0–100)
140	Cuba	46.2score (0–100)
141	Timor-Leste	46.2score (0–100)
142	Togo	46.1score (0–100)
143	Uzbekistan	45.7score (0–100)
144	Algeria	45.0score (0–100)
145	El Salvador	44.7score (0–100)
146	Ukraine	44.6score (0–100)
147	Uganda	44.3score (0–100)
148	Lao People's Democratic Republic	44.2score (0–100)
149	Egypt	44.0score (0–100)
150	Sierra Leone	42.5score (0–100)
151	Türkiye	42.4score (0–100)
152	Eswatini	42.2score (0–100)
153	Mauritania	42.1score (0–100)
154	Liberia	42.0score (0–100)
155	Madagascar	41.8score (0–100)
156	Burkina Faso	41.8score (0–100)
157	Kyrgyzstan	40.9score (0–100)
158	Niger	40.7score (0–100)
159	Bangladesh	40.4score (0–100)
160	Guatemala	40.4score (0–100)
161	Ecuador	40.4score (0–100)
162	State of Palestine	39.9score (0–100)
163	Nigeria	39.6score (0–100)
164	Djibouti	39.6score (0–100)
165	Pakistan	39.5score (0–100)
166	Ethiopia	38.9score (0–100)
167	Cambodia	38.8score (0–100)
168	Lebanon	38.3score (0–100)
169	Mali	38.1score (0–100)
170	Comoros	37.5score (0–100)
171	Guinea	37.2score (0–100)
172	Mexico	37.1score (0–100)
173	Gabon	37.1score (0–100)
174	Russian Federation	37.1score (0–100)
175	Angola	36.8score (0–100)
176	Honduras	36.7score (0–100)
177	Republic of the Congo	36.7score (0–100)
178	Tajikistan	36.6score (0–100)
179	Mozambique	36.4score (0–100)
180	Zimbabwe	36.1score (0–100)
181	Belarus	35.8score (0–100)
182	Islamic Republic of Iran	35.7score (0–100)
183	Guinea-Bissau	35.7score (0–100)
184	Cameroon	35.4score (0–100)
185	Bolivia	35.1score (0–100)
186	Burundi	34.5score (0–100)
187	Iraq	33.6score (0–100)
188	Turkmenistan	32.6score (0–100)
189	Chad	32.1score (0–100)
190	North Korea	30.7score (0–100)
191	Equatorial Guinea	30.5score (0–100)
192	Haiti	29.4score (0–100)
193	Nicaragua	29.1score (0–100)
194	Democratic Republic of the Congo	29.0score (0–100)
195	Libya	27.7score (0–100)
196	Central African Republic	27.5score (0–100)
197	Sudan	26.4score (0–100)
198	Eritrea	25.9score (0–100)
199	Myanmar	25.8score (0–100)
200	Syrian Arab Republic	25.8score (0–100)
201	Yemen	24.2score (0–100)
202	Afghanistan	23.7score (0–100)
203	South Sudan	23.0score (0–100)
204	Venezuela	19.0score (0–100)
205	Somalia	19.0score (0–100)

Showing 205 of 205 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2024).

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