World Justice Project · 143 jurisdictions · score /100 · 2012-2025
Rule of law index, overall score out of 100 — 143 jurisdictions, 14 annual data points with no gap from 2012 to 2025 (the biennial 2012-2013 and 2017-2018 editions duplicated across both years).
World Justice Project (WJP), Rule of Law Index — overall score only, without the detail of its eight underlying factors. Native 0-1 scale rescaled to 0-100, the same convention as the democracy index (V-Dem) and the corruption index (CPI).
Time slider, year by year.
Denmark (89.8), Norway (89) and Finland (87) top a ranking dominated by Northern Europe; Venezuela (26) sits at the bottom, ahead of Afghanistan and Cambodia (31 each). The over-60-point gap between the two extremes measures corruption and judicial arbitrariness as much as the absence of effective checks on executive power.