Rule of Law rose to -1.60 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) in 2024, from -1.64 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) in 2023.

Confidence in and abidance by the rules of society, including the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. Expressed as a standardised score approximately in the range -2.5 (worst) to +2.5 (best).

Latest value: -1.60 standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5) (2024)

Coverage: 1996–2024 · Frequency: annual · 26 observations

Source: World Governance Indicators

Recent observations

PeriodValue — standardised score (≈ -2.5 to +2.5)
1996-1.39
1998-1.58
2000-1.59
2002-1.84
2003-1.72
2004-1.66
2005-1.73
2006-1.49
2007-1.40
2008-1.20
2009-1.22
2010-1.33
2011-1.41
2012-1.38
2013-1.36
2014-1.25
2015-1.23
2016-1.21
2017-1.21
2018-1.17
2019-1.18
2020-1.21
2021-1.39
2022-1.56
2023-1.64
2024-1.60

Methodology

Coverage Six measures of how a country is governed, published by the World Bank at info.worldbank.org. Each aggregates more than 30 underlying sources, among them household and firm surveys, expert assessments, NGO ratings and commercial risk services, using a model that weights each source by how closely it agrees with the others.

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How to cite

World Governance Indicators, Rule of Law, 1996–2024, https://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/

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