Rule of Law by Country

Finland, Denmark, and Norway sit at the top of the global Rule of Law rankings. Somalia, Venezuela, and South Sudan sit at the bottom. These extremes are separated by more than four points on the WGI governance scale, which runs from roughly -2.5 to +2.5. The data, covering 206 countries and territories between 2019 and 2024, offers a snapshot of how consistently societies follow their own rules, enforce contracts, and hold institutions accountable.

The Rule of Law indicator is not a crime statistic. It does not measure how many laws a country has or how many cases its courts process. Instead, it captures perceptions of how much people trust and abide by the rules of society, the quality of contract enforcement and property rights, and the likelihood of crime and violence. It is a governance estimate, compiled by the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators project, drawing on surveys of households, firms, and experts worldwide.

Nordic countries lead, conflict zones trail

Finland scores 2.02 in 2024, the highest value in the dataset, followed closely by Denmark at 2.00 and Norway at 1.95. These three countries have held the top positions consistently over the past six years, with only minor fluctuations. Luxembourg (1.76), Switzerland (1.76), Liechtenstein (1.73), and Sweden (1.73) round out the top tier. Most of the highest-scoring countries are in Northern and Western Europe, joined by New Zealand (1.67) and Japan (1.51).

At the other end, the lowest scores are concentrated in countries affected by protracted conflict or severe institutional breakdown. Somalia scores -2.21, the lowest in the dataset. Venezuela (-2.20), South Sudan (-1.97), Afghanistan (-1.94), and Yemen (-1.90) follow. These scores reflect environments where the state's capacity to enforce laws or protect property rights is extremely limited, often fractured by civil war or political collapse.

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#	Country	2024
1	Finland FI	2.02
2	Denmark DK	2
3	Norway NO	1.95
4	Luxembourg LU	1.76
5	Switzerland CH	1.76
6	Liechtenstein LI	1.73
7	Sweden SE	1.73
8	Netherlands NL	1.71
9	Austria AT	1.68
10	New Zealand NZ	1.67
11	Germany DE	1.63
12	Iceland IS	1.63
13	Ireland IE	1.59
14	Greenland GL	1.57
15	Japan JP	1.51
16	Estonia EE	1.49
17	Australia AU	1.47
18	Canada CA	1.46
19	Singapore SG	1.43
20	Lithuania LT	1.37
21	Monaco MC	1.35
22	Belgium BE	1.28
23	United Kingdom GB	1.27
24	Aruba AW	1.22
25	Tuvalu TV	1.22
26	Czech Republic CZ	1.19
27	Palau PW	1.17
28	San Marino SM	1.16
29	South Korea KR	1.12
30	American Samoa AS	1.09
31	Latvia LV	1.09
32	New Caledonia NC	1.09
33	Portugal PT	1.07
34	Samoa WS	1.05
35	Guam GU	1.03
36	French Polynesia PF	1.02
37	France FR	0.98
38	Micronesia FM	0.98
39	Slovenia SI	0.98
40	United States US	0.96
41	Uruguay UY	0.95
42	Spain ES	0.93
43	Hong Kong HK	0.92
44	Macau MO	0.85
45	Marshall Islands MH	0.84
46	Cayman Islands KY	0.83
47	Bermuda BM	0.8
48	Bhutan BT	0.79
49	Kiribati KI	0.79
50	Barbados BB	0.73
51	Malta MT	0.73
52	Chile CL	0.69
53	Cyprus CY	0.69
54	Tonga TO	0.69
55	Mauritius MU	0.64
56	Costa Rica CR	0.62
57	Italy IT	0.62
58	Antigua and Barbuda AG	0.6
59	Israel IL	0.6
60	Seychelles SC	0.6
61	Brunei BN	0.59
62	Qatar QA	0.59
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	0.59
64	Poland PL	0.58
65	US Virgin Islands VI	0.58
66	Slovakia SK	0.56
67	Puerto Rico PR	0.55
68	Grenada GD	0.54
69	Saint Lucia LC	0.5
70	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VC	0.5
71	United Arab Emirates AE	0.5
72	Oman OM	0.45
73	Cape Verde CV	0.42
74	Vanuatu VU	0.42
75	Dominica DM	0.4
76	Croatia HR	0.38
77	Romania RO	0.37
78	Malaysia MY	0.35
79	Namibia NA	0.33
80	Botswana BW	0.31
81	Fiji FJ	0.31
82	Greece GR	0.3
83	Bahamas BS	0.25
84	Nauru NR	0.25
85	Kuwait KW	0.23
86	Saudi Arabia SA	0.21
87	Hungary HU	0.19
88	Montenegro ME	0.18
89	Bahrain BH	0.17
90	Jordan JO	0.17
91	Georgia GE	0.15
92	Solomon Islands SB	0.15
93	Rwanda RW	0.1
94	Ghana GH	0.05
95	Kosovo XK	0.05
96	Maldives MV	0.04
97	South Africa ZA	0.02
98	Bulgaria BG	-0.03
99	India IN	-0.04
100	Jamaica JM	-0.08
101	Mongolia MN	-0.1
102	Albania AL	-0.12
103	Armenia AM	-0.14
104	Malawi MW	-0.15
105	Moldova MD	-0.16
106	Dominican Republic DO	-0.18
107	Senegal SN	-0.2
108	Serbia RS	-0.2
109	Indonesia ID	-0.21
110	Suriname SR	-0.21
111	North Macedonia MK	-0.22
112	Thailand TH	-0.22
113	Argentina AR	-0.25
114	Panama PA	-0.26
115	Sri Lanka LK	-0.26
116	Nepal NP	-0.3
117	Vietnam VN	-0.31
118	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	-0.32
119	Guyana GY	-0.33
120	Sao Tome and Principe ST	-0.35
121	Tunisia TN	-0.36
122	Morocco MA	-0.37
123	Trinidad and Tobago TT	-0.37
124	Kazakhstan KZ	-0.38
125	Gambia GM	-0.39
126	Belize BZ	-0.4
127	Benin BJ	-0.41
128	Lesotho LS	-0.41
129	Brazil BR	-0.45
130	Kenya KE	-0.46
131	Azerbaijan AZ	-0.49
132	Peru PE	-0.51
133	Tanzania TZ	-0.52
134	Colombia CO	-0.56
135	Zambia ZM	-0.56
136	Papua New Guinea PG	-0.57
137	Philippines PH	-0.57
138	China CN	-0.58
139	Ivory Coast CI	-0.58
140	Paraguay PY	-0.58
141	Cuba CU	-0.62
142	Timor-Leste TL	-0.63
143	Togo TG	-0.63
144	Uzbekistan UZ	-0.66
145	Algeria DZ	-0.7
146	El Salvador SV	-0.71
147	Ukraine UA	-0.72
148	Laos LA	-0.74
149	Uganda UG	-0.74
150	Egypt EG	-0.75
151	Sierra Leone SL	-0.84
152	Türkiye TR	-0.84
153	Eswatini SZ	-0.86
154	Mauritania MR	-0.86
155	Liberia LR	-0.87
156	Burkina Faso BF	-0.88
157	Madagascar MG	-0.88
158	Kyrgyzstan KG	-0.94
159	Niger NE	-0.95
160	Bangladesh BD	-0.96
161	Guatemala GT	-0.96
162	Ecuador EC	-0.97
163	Palestine PS	-0.99
164	Djibouti DJ	-1.01
165	Nigeria NG	-1.01
166	Pakistan PK	-1.02
167	Ethiopia ET	-1.05
168	Cambodia KH	-1.06
169	Lebanon LB	-1.09
170	Mali ML	-1.09
171	Comoros KM	-1.13
172	Guinea GN	-1.15
173	Mexico MX	-1.15
174	Gabon GA	-1.16
175	Russia RU	-1.16
176	Angola AO	-1.17
177	Congo CG	-1.18
178	Honduras HN	-1.18
179	Tajikistan TJ	-1.18
180	Mozambique MZ	-1.19
181	Zimbabwe ZW	-1.21
182	Belarus BY	-1.23
183	Guinea-Bissau GW	-1.23
184	Iran IR	-1.23
185	Cameroon CM	-1.25
186	Bolivia BO	-1.27
187	Burundi BI	-1.3
188	Iraq IQ	-1.36
189	Turkmenistan TM	-1.41
190	Chad TD	-1.44
191	North Korea KP	-1.53
192	Equatorial Guinea GQ	-1.54
193	Haiti HT	-1.6
194	Nicaragua NI	-1.62
195	DR Congo CD	-1.63
196	Libya LY	-1.7
197	Central African Republic CF	-1.71
198	Sudan SD	-1.77
199	Eritrea ER	-1.8
200	Myanmar MM	-1.81
201	Syria SY	-1.81
202	Yemen YE	-1.9
203	Afghanistan AF	-1.94
204	South Sudan SS	-1.97
205	Venezuela VE	-2.2
206	Somalia SO	-2.21

Who improved and who declined between 2019 and 2024

Several countries saw meaningful shifts over the six-year period. Micronesia recorded the largest improvement, rising from 0.22 in 2019 to 0.98 in 2024, a gain of 0.76 points. Maldives followed with an increase of 0.52 points, entering positive territory. Tonga (+0.45), Kosovo (+0.40), and Saudi Arabia (+0.38) also showed clear upward trends. Lithuania, Brunei, the Dominican Republic, and Uzbekistan each improved by 0.28 points or more.

The largest decline belongs to Myanmar, which dropped 0.62 points from -1.19 to -1.81. The US Virgin Islands (-0.52), Burkina Faso (-0.47), and San Marino (-0.46) also recorded substantial drops. Hong Kong fell 0.42 points, Haiti 0.42 points, and Niger 0.41 points. Belarus declined by 0.44 points, from -0.79 to -1.23.

How to interpret the scores

The Rule of Law estimate is a perception-based governance indicator. It does not measure objective facts like the number of lawyers or the length of court proceedings. Higher scores indicate stronger governance perceptions, while lower scores indicate weaker ones. Most countries fall somewhere in between. A positive score indicates that, on balance, perceptions of the rule of law are favorable relative to the global average. A negative score indicates the opposite.

The indicator is most useful for comparing large groups of countries or tracking broad trends over time. Small year-to-year changes — less than 0.1 points — may not be statistically significant. The value of the WGI data lies in its comparability: WGI has provided comparable governance estimates since 1999, allowing users to see how perceptions of governance evolve across countries and decades.

Rule of Law by Country

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#	Country	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	Finland	2.11	2.11	2.07	1.99	2.02	2.02
2	Denmark	2.02	1.97	2.01	2	2.01	2
3	Norway	2.03	2.06	2.06	1.94	1.99	1.95
4	Luxembourg	1.84	1.8	1.73	1.75	1.73	1.76
5	Switzerland	1.91	1.81	1.79	1.78	1.79	1.76
6	Liechtenstein	1.63	1.63	1.63	1.73	1.73	1.73
7	Sweden	1.87	1.82	1.79	1.74	1.69	1.73
8	Netherlands	1.84	1.83	1.78	1.73	1.72	1.71
9	Austria	1.81	1.75	1.72	1.64	1.66	1.68
10	New Zealand	1.78	1.77	1.73	1.72	1.71	1.67
11	Germany	1.71	1.63	1.63	1.58	1.59	1.63
12	Iceland	1.75	1.69	1.71	1.6	1.59	1.63
13	Ireland	1.54	1.52	1.55	1.5	1.6	1.59
14	Greenland	1.63	1.63	1.63	1.58	1.57	1.57
15	Japan	1.51	1.51	1.53	1.51	1.51	1.51
16	Estonia	1.51	1.5	1.49	1.52	1.48	1.49
17	Australia	1.63	1.55	1.57	1.47	1.5	1.47
18	Canada	1.68	1.56	1.55	1.51	1.44	1.46
19	Singapore	1.53	1.47	1.43	1.43	1.42	1.43
20	Lithuania	1.06	1.14	1.21	1.23	1.33	1.37
21	Monaco	1.54	1.38	1.37	1.35	1.35	1.35
22	Belgium	1.45	1.45	1.41	1.34	1.27	1.28
23	United Kingdom	1.44	1.36	1.31	1.3	1.27	1.27
24	Aruba	1.29	1.29	1.22	1.22	1.22	1.22
25	Tuvalu	0.86	0.95	0.97	1	1.2	1.22
26	Czech Republic	1.12	1.12	1.17	1.14	1.16	1.19
27	Palau	1.16	1.16	1.16	1.17	1.17	1.17
28	San Marino	1.62	1.46	1.45	1.24	1.41	1.16
29	South Korea	1.11	1.15	1.17	1.17	1.18	1.12
30	American Samoa	1.37	1.2	1.2	1.19	1.19	1.09
31	Latvia	0.83	0.92	0.98	1.01	1.07	1.09
32	New Caledonia	1.06	1.05	1.1	1.09	1.09	1.09
33	Portugal	1.12	1.18	1.17	1.13	1.08	1.07
34	Samoa	1.16	1.16	1.05	1.05	1.05	1.05
35	Guam	1.42	1.16	1.15	1.17	1.03	1.03
36	French Polynesia	0.9	0.95	1.03	1.02	1.02	1.02
37	France	1.18	1.13	1.08	1.02	0.99	0.98
38	Micronesia	0.22	0.67	0.88	0.98	0.98	0.98
39	Slovenia	0.92	0.94	0.93	0.92	0.97	0.98
40	United States	1.12	1	1.03	1.05	0.96	0.96
41	Uruguay	0.88	0.89	0.95	0.98	0.96	0.95
42	Spain	1.1	0.98	0.92	0.96	0.93	0.93
43	Hong Kong	1.34	1.18	1.03	0.88	0.88	0.92
44	Macau	0.91	0.86	0.78	0.78	0.78	0.85
45	Marshall Islands	0.85	0.79	0.78	0.84	0.84	0.84
46	Cayman Islands	0.78	0.78	0.85	0.83	0.83	0.83
47	Bermuda	0.87	0.65	0.64	0.8	0.8	0.8
48	Bhutan	0.66	0.65	0.68	0.68	0.72	0.79
49	Kiribati	0.58	1.16	1.07	0.77	0.73	0.79
50	Barbados	0.78	0.7	0.7	0.72	0.73	0.73
51	Malta	1.02	0.94	0.87	0.85	0.79	0.73
52	Chile	0.91	0.74	0.76	0.74	0.66	0.69
53	Cyprus	0.86	0.75	0.77	0.76	0.76	0.69
54	Tonga	0.24	0.75	0.75	0.79	0.8	0.69
55	Mauritius	0.89	0.95	0.72	0.68	0.66	0.64
56	Costa Rica	0.58	0.63	0.61	0.67	0.64	0.62
57	Italy	0.53	0.55	0.59	0.57	0.65	0.62
58	Antigua and Barbuda	0.59	0.59	0.57	0.62	0.62	0.6
59	Israel	0.95	0.89	0.88	0.8	0.66	0.6
60	Seychelles	0.43	0.53	0.55	0.6	0.55	0.6
61	Brunei	0.29	0.56	0.56	0.64	0.64	0.59
62	Qatar	0.49	0.48	0.5	0.6	0.57	0.59
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.63	0.63	0.59	0.57	0.56	0.59
64	Poland	0.53	0.46	0.41	0.35	0.36	0.58
65	US Virgin Islands	1.1	0.88	0.87	0.58	0.58	0.58
66	Slovakia	0.37	0.53	0.71	0.59	0.55	0.56
67	Puerto Rico	0.51	0.52	0.51	0.43	0.54	0.55
68	Grenada	0.39	0.43	0.4	0.47	0.55	0.54
69	Saint Lucia	0.67	0.59	0.63	0.53	0.51	0.5
70	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.68	0.65	0.65	0.62	0.55	0.5
71	United Arab Emirates	0.43	0.4	0.34	0.41	0.45	0.5
72	Oman	0.26	0.26	0.23	0.35	0.34	0.45
73	Cape Verde	0.77	0.67	0.49	0.48	0.42	0.42
74	Vanuatu	0.38	0.55	0.62	0.49	0.42	0.42
75	Dominica	0.6	0.6	0.54	0.56	0.54	0.4
76	Croatia	0.31	0.35	0.41	0.43	0.43	0.38
77	Romania	0.37	0.46	0.46	0.44	0.41	0.37
78	Malaysia	0.34	0.35	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.35
79	Namibia	0.19	0.22	0.29	0.32	0.31	0.33
80	Botswana	0.45	0.33	0.37	0.34	0.33	0.31
81	Fiji	0.06	0.16	0.16	0.24	0.33	0.31
82	Greece	0.38	0.47	0.44	0.49	0.4	0.3
83	Bahamas	0.38	0.31	0.35	0.27	0.28	0.25
84	Nauru	0.21	0.21	0.21	0.35	0.35	0.25
85	Kuwait	0.07	0.15	0.12	0.22	0.19	0.23
86	Saudi Arabia	-0.17	-0.18	-0.17	0.04	0.12	0.21
87	Hungary	0.31	0.33	0.3	0.24	0.19	0.19
88	Montenegro	0.08	0.11	0.02	-0.05	0.13	0.18
89	Bahrain	0.01	-0.11	0.02	0.03	0.13	0.17
90	Jordan	0.14	0.11	0.04	0.08	0.12	0.17
91	Georgia	0.21	0.26	0.23	0.18	0.16	0.15
92	Solomon Islands	-0.08	0.21	0.02	0.15	0.15	0.15
93	Rwanda	-0.14	-0.03	0.02	0.01	0.07	0.1
94	Ghana	0.12	0.11	0.04	0	0	0.05
95	Kosovo	-0.35	-0.28	-0.12	-0.15	-0.04	0.05
96	Maldives	-0.48	-0.31	-0.14	0.11	0.1	0.04
97	South Africa	-0.07	-0.06	0.12	0.03	0.04	0.02
98	Bulgaria	-0.14	-0.15	-0.04	-0.1	-0.03	-0.03
99	India	-0.02	-0.1	-0.18	-0.11	-0.09	-0.04
100	Jamaica	-0.17	-0.1	-0.07	-0.07	-0.08	-0.08
101	Mongolia	-0.2	-0.17	-0.17	-0.15	-0.16	-0.1
102	Albania	-0.29	-0.26	-0.2	-0.13	-0.15	-0.12
103	Armenia	-0.25	-0.08	-0.1	-0.24	-0.21	-0.14
104	Malawi	-0.3	-0.26	-0.25	-0.22	-0.13	-0.15
105	Moldova	-0.37	-0.38	-0.25	-0.19	-0.19	-0.16
106	Dominican Republic	-0.48	-0.38	-0.32	-0.28	-0.24	-0.18
107	Senegal	-0.11	-0.1	-0.15	-0.14	-0.17	-0.2
108	Serbia	-0.07	-0.13	-0.19	-0.16	-0.18	-0.2
109	Indonesia	-0.19	-0.15	-0.14	-0.13	-0.08	-0.21
110	Suriname	-0.25	-0.19	-0.2	-0.22	-0.19	-0.21
111	North Macedonia	-0.29	-0.17	-0.12	-0.18	-0.27	-0.22
112	Thailand	-0.2	-0.2	-0.26	-0.27	-0.2	-0.22
113	Argentina	-0.34	-0.29	-0.3	-0.29	-0.24	-0.25
114	Panama	-0.28	-0.24	-0.23	-0.21	-0.23	-0.26
115	Sri Lanka	-0.08	-0.19	-0.23	-0.33	-0.32	-0.26
116	Nepal	-0.41	-0.37	-0.36	-0.33	-0.34	-0.3
117	Vietnam	-0.3	-0.3	-0.31	-0.34	-0.34	-0.31
118	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.39	-0.3	-0.31	-0.29	-0.35	-0.32
119	Guyana	-0.44	-0.39	-0.38	-0.36	-0.37	-0.33
120	Sao Tome and Principe	-0.49	-0.36	-0.39	-0.29	-0.35	-0.35
121	Tunisia	-0.03	-0.01	-0.02	-0.24	-0.31	-0.36
122	Morocco	-0.32	-0.31	-0.44	-0.45	-0.39	-0.37
123	Trinidad and Tobago	-0.14	-0.16	-0.15	-0.25	-0.32	-0.37
124	Kazakhstan	-0.43	-0.42	-0.47	-0.44	-0.38	-0.38
125	Gambia	-0.44	-0.34	-0.37	-0.36	-0.34	-0.39
126	Belize	-0.56	-0.52	-0.53	-0.44	-0.4	-0.4
127	Benin	-0.4	-0.39	-0.39	-0.47	-0.39	-0.41
128	Lesotho	-0.34	-0.37	-0.4	-0.47	-0.44	-0.41
129	Brazil	-0.39	-0.39	-0.41	-0.44	-0.48	-0.45
130	Kenya	-0.56	-0.58	-0.45	-0.42	-0.43	-0.46
131	Azerbaijan	-0.67	-0.62	-0.61	-0.55	-0.52	-0.49
132	Peru	-0.46	-0.43	-0.52	-0.49	-0.48	-0.51
133	Tanzania	-0.57	-0.57	-0.57	-0.55	-0.49	-0.52
134	Colombia	-0.45	-0.48	-0.51	-0.53	-0.56	-0.56
135	Zambia	-0.59	-0.66	-0.6	-0.63	-0.61	-0.56
136	Papua New Guinea	-0.71	-0.66	-0.65	-0.55	-0.51	-0.57
137	Philippines	-0.65	-0.63	-0.67	-0.63	-0.6	-0.57
138	China	-0.55	-0.51	-0.54	-0.56	-0.55	-0.58
139	Ivory Coast	-0.6	-0.62	-0.65	-0.6	-0.6	-0.58
140	Paraguay	-0.43	-0.37	-0.53	-0.54	-0.58	-0.58
141	Cuba	-0.76	-0.57	-0.65	-0.5	-0.57	-0.62
142	Timor-Leste	-0.78	-0.75	-0.64	-0.66	-0.64	-0.63
143	Togo	-0.7	-0.62	-0.63	-0.68	-0.63	-0.63
144	Uzbekistan	-0.94	-0.91	-0.7	-0.67	-0.67	-0.66
145	Algeria	-0.85	-0.77	-0.76	-0.8	-0.73	-0.7
146	El Salvador	-0.75	-0.69	-0.84	-0.96	-0.71	-0.71
147	Ukraine	-0.59	-0.57	-0.57	-0.74	-0.75	-0.72
148	Laos	-0.94	-0.88	-0.76	-0.84	-0.84	-0.74
149	Uganda	-0.73	-0.69	-0.73	-0.73	-0.75	-0.74
150	Egypt	-0.75	-0.79	-0.82	-0.77	-0.78	-0.75
151	Sierra Leone	-0.78	-0.67	-0.76	-0.78	-0.83	-0.84
152	Türkiye	-0.6	-0.71	-0.78	-0.78	-0.8	-0.84
153	Eswatini	-0.56	-0.66	-0.7	-0.73	-0.73	-0.86
154	Mauritania	-0.78	-0.71	-0.87	-0.85	-0.85	-0.86
155	Liberia	-0.87	-0.86	-0.84	-0.86	-0.9	-0.87
156	Burkina Faso	-0.41	-0.42	-0.4	-0.63	-0.71	-0.88
157	Madagascar	-0.84	-0.86	-0.89	-0.97	-0.96	-0.88
158	Kyrgyzstan	-0.74	-0.73	-0.88	-0.93	-0.97	-0.94
159	Niger	-0.54	-0.52	-0.6	-0.67	-0.8	-0.95
160	Bangladesh	-0.94	-0.9	-0.97	-0.97	-0.9	-0.96
161	Guatemala	-1.01	-0.97	-0.98	-1.04	-1.01	-0.96
162	Ecuador	-0.65	-0.57	-0.43	-0.58	-0.86	-0.97
163	Palestine	-0.85	-0.88	-0.89	-0.85	-0.89	-0.99
164	Djibouti	-1.01	-1.04	-1.03	-1.02	-1.04	-1.01
165	Nigeria	-0.84	-0.84	-0.93	-1	-0.93	-1.01
166	Pakistan	-0.81	-0.81	-0.82	-0.91	-1	-1.02
167	Ethiopia	-0.78	-0.81	-0.95	-0.92	-1.04	-1.05
168	Cambodia	-1.13	-1.15	-1.15	-1.12	-1.1	-1.06
169	Lebanon	-0.86	-0.92	-1	-1.03	-1.07	-1.09
170	Mali	-0.81	-0.83	-0.88	-1.02	-1.04	-1.09
171	Comoros	-0.98	-1.07	-1.1	-1.18	-1.13	-1.13
172	Guinea	-1.08	-1.1	-1	-1.06	-1.11	-1.15
173	Mexico	-0.88	-0.99	-1.02	-1.08	-1.08	-1.15
174	Gabon	-0.87	-0.93	-0.92	-1.09	-1.08	-1.16
175	Russia	-0.87	-0.83	-0.9	-1.05	-1.07	-1.16
176	Angola	-1.05	-0.95	-1.1	-1.16	-1.19	-1.17
177	Congo	-1.22	-1.25	-1.23	-1.21	-1.18	-1.18
178	Honduras	-1.08	-1.11	-1.14	-1.09	-1.16	-1.18
179	Tajikistan	-1.25	-1.24	-1.26	-1.2	-1.21	-1.18
180	Mozambique	-0.97	-1.04	-1.05	-1.07	-1.1	-1.19
181	Zimbabwe	-1.28	-1.24	-1.26	-1.3	-1.27	-1.21
182	Belarus	-0.79	-0.86	-1.07	-1.16	-1.22	-1.23
183	Guinea-Bissau	-1.14	-1.13	-1.2	-1.25	-1.21	-1.23
184	Iran	-1.05	-1.03	-1.07	-1.13	-1.2	-1.23
185	Cameroon	-1.19	-1.23	-1.22	-1.21	-1.24	-1.25
186	Bolivia	-1.24	-1.2	-1.11	-1.18	-1.2	-1.27
187	Burundi	-1.33	-1.32	-1.31	-1.32	-1.31	-1.3
188	Iraq	-1.37	-1.51	-1.44	-1.46	-1.5	-1.36
189	Turkmenistan	-1.59	-1.53	-1.58	-1.43	-1.43	-1.41
190	Chad	-1.32	-1.33	-1.34	-1.38	-1.45	-1.44
191	North Korea	-1.71	-1.68	-1.68	-1.49	-1.53	-1.53
192	Equatorial Guinea	-1.59	-1.53	-1.53	-1.48	-1.48	-1.54
193	Haiti	-1.18	-1.21	-1.39	-1.56	-1.64	-1.6
194	Nicaragua	-1.33	-1.34	-1.47	-1.49	-1.6	-1.62
195	DR Congo	-1.65	-1.61	-1.53	-1.58	-1.61	-1.63
196	Libya	-1.62	-1.63	-1.56	-1.74	-1.67	-1.7
197	Central African Republic	-1.58	-1.56	-1.55	-1.67	-1.72	-1.71
198	Sudan	-1.42	-1.34	-1.34	-1.42	-1.66	-1.77
199	Eritrea	-1.69	-1.62	-1.65	-1.77	-1.8	-1.8
200	Myanmar	-1.19	-1.16	-1.56	-1.66	-1.72	-1.81
201	Syria	-1.83	-1.85	-1.89	-1.88	-1.86	-1.81
202	Yemen	-1.67	-1.82	-1.85	-1.91	-1.91	-1.9
203	Afghanistan	-1.66	-1.66	-1.72	-1.86	-1.9	-1.94
204	South Sudan	-1.87	-1.91	-1.98	-1.93	-2	-1.97
205	Venezuela	-2.33	-2.35	-2.31	-2.24	-2.2	-2.2
206	Somalia	-2.28	-2.18	-2.17	-2.21	-2.13	-2.21

Data Notes

The data comes from the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, produced by the World Bank since 1999. This edition covers the years 2019 to 2024 using the 2025 Revision. The Rule of Law indicator is a governance estimate with an approximate range of -2.5 to +2.5. It is based on perception data gathered from enterprise, household, and expert surveys, as well as from NGOs and public-sector organizations. The official source is the World Bank's WGI portal at govindicators.org. Data was accessed on 2026-06-03.