Which country has the highest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score?

Denmark has the highest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score in 2025, at 0.9, followed by Norway (0.89) and Finland (0.87).

Which country has the lowest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score?

Venezuela has the lowest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score in 2025, at 0.26.

What is the median WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score across countries?

The median is 0.52 across the 142 countries with data in 2025.

Where does the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: World Justice Project Rule of Law Datasheet 2024 - WJP; World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2024 - WJP; World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2023 - WJP; World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2022 - WJP.

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World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index

Name: World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index
Creator: World Population Review

Denmark has the highest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score in 2025 (0.9), followed by Norway (0.89) and Finland (0.87). Venezuela has the lowest (0.26).

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Median

0.52

Middle half 0.44 – 0.64

Average

0.55

142 countries

Highest

0.9

Denmark

Lowest

0.26

Venezuela

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1	Denmark	0.9	0.94	0.95	0.85	0.89	0.86	0.84	0.91	0.93
2	Norway	0.89	0.92	0.93	0.88	0.88	0.86	0.82	0.9	0.93
3	Finland	0.87	0.92	0.9	0.84	0.85	0.8	0.84	0.9	0.92
4	Sweden	0.85	0.85	0.91	0.83	0.83	0.83	0.78	0.87	0.93
5	Germany	0.83	0.86	0.83	0.79	0.84	0.82	0.79	0.86	0.88
5	New Zealand	0.83	0.86	0.89	0.82	0.85	0.79	0.74	0.84	0.89
5	Luxembourg	0.83	0.82	0.85	0.81	0.85	0.77	0.73	0.85	0.95
8	Netherlands	0.82	0.83	0.87	0.8	0.83	0.82	0.75	0.82	0.84
8	Ireland	0.82	0.84	0.82	0.83	0.84	0.74	0.74	0.85	0.93
8	Estonia	0.82	0.83	0.83	0.81	0.81	0.79	0.76	0.82	0.91
11	Australia	0.8	0.81	0.83	0.81	0.81	0.74	0.72	0.79	0.87
12	Canada	0.79	0.82	0.82	0.79	0.81	0.67	0.72	0.82	0.9
12	Austria	0.79	0.82	0.8	0.68	0.8	0.73	0.78	0.83	0.91
14	Japan	0.78	0.72	0.82	0.71	0.79	0.76	0.76	0.78	0.93
14	United Kingdom	0.78	0.82	0.83	0.8	0.78	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.84
14	Belgium	0.78	0.81	0.79	0.77	0.79	0.73	0.7	0.84	0.82
14	Singapore	0.78	0.68	0.93	0.61	0.86	0.81	0.76	0.67	0.94
18	Lithuania	0.77	0.76	0.75	0.75	0.76	0.77	0.7	0.79	0.9
19	South Korea	0.74	0.71	0.67	0.73	0.75	0.76	0.72	0.75	0.85
19	Czechia	0.74	0.74	0.69	0.71	0.7	0.69	0.7	0.78	0.89
21	Latvia	0.73	0.7	0.69	0.73	0.72	0.71	0.68	0.77	0.86
22	France	0.72	0.72	0.75	0.75	0.74	0.67	0.64	0.73	0.79
22	Hong Kong	0.72	0.55	0.84	0.68	0.79	0.7	0.68	0.57	0.92
22	Uruguay	0.72	0.76	0.74	0.73	0.72	0.71	0.59	0.79	0.7
25	Spain	0.71	0.69	0.73	0.69	0.68	0.65	0.67	0.78	0.82
26	United States	0.68	0.63	0.72	0.72	0.7	0.62	0.58	0.65	0.83
26	Costa Rica	0.68	0.75	0.64	0.69	0.68	0.61	0.57	0.77	0.7
26	Slovenia	0.68	0.64	0.64	0.66	0.65	0.66	0.56	0.76	0.89
29	Portugal	0.67	0.75	0.71	0.61	0.6	0.63	0.57	0.74	0.78
29	Cyprus	0.67	0.67	0.65	0.6	0.65	0.62	0.67	0.73	0.8
29	Malta	0.67	0.61	0.64	0.63	0.58	0.6	0.63	0.74	0.91
32	Italy	0.66	0.7	0.65	0.64	0.61	0.56	0.63	0.72	0.75
32	Poland	0.66	0.62	0.71	0.66	0.64	0.6	0.58	0.64	0.85
32	Chile	0.66	0.71	0.68	0.69	0.62	0.6	0.54	0.73	0.67
32	Barbados	0.66	0.65	0.7	0.56	0.64	0.61	0.58	0.74	0.8
36	United Arab Emirates	0.64	0.59	0.78	0.35	0.7	0.67	0.68	0.44	0.91
36	Slovakia	0.64	0.62	0.52	0.68	0.61	0.54	0.58	0.7	0.9
36	Antigua and Barbuda	0.64	0.62	0.63	0.52	0.62	0.68	0.53	0.71	0.79
39	Rwanda	0.63	0.61	0.69	0.56	0.63	0.65	0.56	0.53	0.85
39	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.63	0.62	0.64	0.46	0.61	0.69	0.59	0.69	0.76
41	Qatar	0.62	0.59	0.68	0.42	0.7	0.61	0.58	0.43	0.93
41	Saint Lucia	0.62	0.6	0.63	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.55	0.67	0.73
41	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.62	0.57	0.68	0.48	0.54	0.63	0.59	0.69	0.74
44	Romania	0.61	0.58	0.53	0.62	0.56	0.61	0.52	0.66	0.83
44	Croatia	0.61	0.57	0.56	0.6	0.56	0.56	0.5	0.68	0.84
44	Namibia	0.61	0.65	0.52	0.58	0.57	0.61	0.54	0.64	0.75
47	Greece	0.6	0.63	0.56	0.59	0.56	0.58	0.5	0.63	0.72
47	Botswana	0.6	0.62	0.58	0.48	0.59	0.61	0.58	0.59	0.72
47	Mauritius	0.6	0.58	0.58	0.52	0.62	0.61	0.54	0.63	0.75
47	Grenada	0.6	0.58	0.65	0.46	0.54	0.6	0.54	0.63	0.78
51	Kuwait	0.58	0.52	0.68	0.42	0.65	0.57	0.46	0.44	0.88
51	Georgia	0.58	0.49	0.65	0.57	0.57	0.52	0.5	0.57	0.78
51	Bahamas	0.58	0.58	0.62	0.48	0.51	0.56	0.57	0.63	0.72
51	Dominica	0.58	0.52	0.61	0.49	0.53	0.56	0.56	0.63	0.71
55	Malaysia	0.57	0.56	0.57	0.41	0.56	0.62	0.56	0.5	0.78
55	Jamaica	0.57	0.63	0.54	0.55	0.54	0.56	0.48	0.64	0.62
55	Montenegro	0.57	0.54	0.49	0.55	0.48	0.54	0.48	0.67	0.82
58	South Africa	0.56	0.61	0.46	0.61	0.51	0.57	0.49	0.63	0.6
58	Senegal	0.56	0.57	0.56	0.45	0.57	0.56	0.47	0.6	0.71
60	Jordan	0.55	0.48	0.59	0.39	0.57	0.61	0.56	0.46	0.76
60	Bulgaria	0.55	0.5	0.45	0.59	0.52	0.53	0.45	0.6	0.78
62	Argentina	0.54	0.54	0.45	0.61	0.51	0.55	0.38	0.67	0.61
62	Ghana	0.54	0.66	0.38	0.51	0.52	0.55	0.45	0.57	0.71
62	Kazakhstan	0.54	0.46	0.49	0.48	0.53	0.62	0.46	0.46	0.8
62	North Macedonia	0.54	0.5	0.47	0.51	0.46	0.51	0.46	0.63	0.8
66	Mongolia	0.53	0.53	0.42	0.49	0.48	0.54	0.48	0.56	0.76
66	Moldova	0.53	0.52	0.37	0.57	0.46	0.49	0.43	0.61	0.82
68	Indonesia	0.52	0.62	0.42	0.55	0.58	0.47	0.38	0.47	0.71
68	Nepal	0.52	0.59	0.42	0.5	0.48	0.44	0.48	0.51	0.72
68	Malawi	0.52	0.57	0.42	0.46	0.47	0.56	0.43	0.57	0.68
68	Panama	0.52	0.53	0.41	0.57	0.5	0.48	0.34	0.63	0.7
68	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.52	0.47	0.43	0.48	0.48	0.46	0.47	0.59	0.77
73	Sri Lanka	0.51	0.54	0.49	0.53	0.49	0.46	0.41	0.5	0.68
73	Trinidad and Tobago	0.51	0.54	0.48	0.53	0.48	0.54	0.3	0.58	0.64
75	Brazil	0.5	0.52	0.45	0.59	0.5	0.51	0.33	0.5	0.62
75	Vietnam	0.5	0.45	0.43	0.43	0.45	0.47	0.48	0.47	0.78
75	Thailand	0.5	0.47	0.45	0.48	0.45	0.5	0.42	0.49	0.75
75	Uzbekistan	0.5	0.37	0.47	0.37	0.45	0.52	0.46	0.43	0.9
75	Dominican Republic	0.5	0.53	0.42	0.58	0.44	0.45	0.39	0.58	0.64
75	Hungary	0.5	0.35	0.48	0.45	0.44	0.45	0.44	0.52	0.89
75	Guyana	0.5	0.53	0.45	0.44	0.47	0.53	0.4	0.55	0.63
75	Belize	0.5	0.48	0.45	0.45	0.42	0.53	0.4	0.53	0.71
83	India	0.49	0.55	0.4	0.59	0.48	0.42	0.39	0.45	0.64
83	Algeria	0.49	0.47	0.45	0.36	0.48	0.55	0.42	0.42	0.76
83	Tunisia	0.49	0.48	0.47	0.44	0.48	0.47	0.4	0.46	0.72
83	Gambia	0.49	0.55	0.47	0.39	0.37	0.51	0.4	0.5	0.69
83	Albania	0.49	0.43	0.38	0.48	0.43	0.46	0.41	0.57	0.77
83	Suriname	0.49	0.49	0.44	0.39	0.46	0.49	0.52	0.52	0.65
89	China	0.48	0.32	0.55	0.41	0.51	0.53	0.45	0.25	0.81
89	Ukraine	0.48	0.46	0.33	0.56	0.43	0.53	0.37	0.57	0.62
89	Morocco	0.48	0.51	0.42	0.42	0.49	0.51	0.38	0.43	0.69
89	Peru	0.48	0.57	0.33	0.52	0.47	0.41	0.32	0.58	0.61
93	Colombia	0.47	0.49	0.39	0.61	0.52	0.45	0.31	0.5	0.5
93	Benin	0.47	0.49	0.4	0.38	0.47	0.43	0.41	0.51	0.68
93	Serbia	0.47	0.32	0.39	0.44	0.43	0.46	0.37	0.55	0.76
96	Philippines	0.46	0.49	0.43	0.46	0.46	0.44	0.31	0.42	0.68
96	Tanzania	0.46	0.49	0.4	0.37	0.46	0.47	0.36	0.43	0.7
96	Ecuador	0.46	0.5	0.36	0.52	0.45	0.43	0.3	0.52	0.57
99	Kenya	0.45	0.47	0.26	0.5	0.45	0.5	0.39	0.48	0.55
99	Burkina Faso	0.45	0.48	0.43	0.44	0.46	0.43	0.47	0.49	0.41
99	Zambia	0.45	0.46	0.36	0.41	0.42	0.47	0.41	0.4	0.68
99	Kyrgyzstan	0.45	0.42	0.29	0.48	0.4	0.47	0.32	0.44	0.76
99	Paraguay	0.45	0.48	0.28	0.56	0.45	0.4	0.26	0.5	0.69
104	Ivory Coast	0.44	0.37	0.34	0.35	0.51	0.5	0.36	0.45	0.67
104	Guatemala	0.44	0.49	0.35	0.52	0.41	0.33	0.3	0.53	0.59
104	Sierra Leone	0.44	0.47	0.36	0.38	0.36	0.41	0.37	0.49	0.66
104	Belarus	0.44	0.26	0.49	0.3	0.43	0.55	0.38	0.33	0.81
104	Lebanon	0.44	0.49	0.37	0.45	0.44	0.4	0.32	0.47	0.59
104	Liberia	0.44	0.5	0.31	0.46	0.41	0.41	0.33	0.51	0.61
110	Madagascar	0.43	0.41	0.27	0.44	0.4	0.43	0.33	0.46	0.71
110	Togo	0.43	0.34	0.42	0.3	0.5	0.46	0.34	0.42	0.69
112	Angola	0.42	0.4	0.43	0.39	0.43	0.43	0.34	0.37	0.58
112	Niger	0.42	0.37	0.39	0.34	0.46	0.43	0.35	0.44	0.56
112	El Salvador	0.42	0.35	0.34	0.42	0.45	0.47	0.2	0.41	0.71
115	Nigeria	0.41	0.48	0.33	0.41	0.4	0.45	0.39	0.42	0.36
115	Russia	0.41	0.31	0.41	0.44	0.45	0.49	0.29	0.35	0.52
115	Turkey	0.41	0.28	0.44	0.39	0.41	0.4	0.34	0.3	0.71
115	Guinea	0.41	0.37	0.3	0.36	0.36	0.38	0.31	0.48	0.72
115	Honduras	0.41	0.37	0.31	0.44	0.39	0.4	0.27	0.46	0.64
120	Mexico	0.4	0.41	0.27	0.56	0.42	0.35	0.25	0.47	0.5
120	Republic of the Congo	0.4	0.36	0.31	0.32	0.43	0.44	0.34	0.39	0.62
120	Gabon	0.4	0.32	0.26	0.38	0.46	0.4	0.3	0.44	0.65
123	Bangladesh	0.39	0.37	0.34	0.41	0.39	0.36	0.32	0.3	0.63
123	Mali	0.39	0.4	0.31	0.43	0.46	0.39	0.28	0.45	0.37
123	Zimbabwe	0.39	0.32	0.31	0.32	0.36	0.46	0.35	0.33	0.68
126	Iran	0.38	0.32	0.38	0.27	0.43	0.51	0.34	0.2	0.61
126	Uganda	0.38	0.37	0.26	0.38	0.41	0.41	0.3	0.34	0.59
128	Pakistan	0.37	0.43	0.31	0.39	0.39	0.38	0.35	0.35	0.36
128	Mozambique	0.37	0.39	0.33	0.35	0.38	0.41	0.3	0.38	0.44
128	Bolivia	0.37	0.34	0.23	0.45	0.37	0.3	0.19	0.44	0.6
131	Ethiopia	0.36	0.31	0.4	0.3	0.35	0.4	0.34	0.27	0.52
131	Cameroon	0.36	0.37	0.25	0.35	0.41	0.42	0.23	0.35	0.48
131	Mauritania	0.36	0.34	0.31	0.29	0.29	0.4	0.27	0.37	0.64
134	Egypt	0.35	0.23	0.38	0.23	0.35	0.37	0.34	0.23	0.65
135	DR Congo	0.34	0.39	0.17	0.33	0.35	0.35	0.28	0.39	0.44
135	Myanmar	0.34	0.25	0.4	0.28	0.41	0.33	0.23	0.18	0.6
135	Sudan	0.34	0.25	0.32	0.33	0.33	0.35	0.32	0.3	0.5
138	Nicaragua	0.33	0.22	0.29	0.3	0.34	0.28	0.25	0.28	0.69
139	Haiti	0.32	0.34	0.24	0.33	0.26	0.33	0.24	0.42	0.43
140	Afghanistan	0.31	0.34	0.29	0.31	0.35	0.32	0.24	0.24	0.37
140	Cambodia	0.31	0.24	0.23	0.23	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.32	0.66
142	Venezuela	0.26	0.18	0.26	0.27	0.2	0.26	0.11	0.28	0.53

What correlates with WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score (2025)?

Pearson r against 1,518 other country metrics sharing at least 86 countries. Ranks are read by standing: a better rank counts as higher, whether rank 1 is the best place on a list or the worst. Correlation is not causation.

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Places that have a higher WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score tend to score higher on these (or rank better)

Corruption Perception IndexCorruption Perceptions Index by Country
r = +0.95 · very strong · n = 140
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LP GovernanceLegatum Prosperity IndexA rank: rank 1 is the best
r = +0.94 · very strong · n = 134
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Resilience Score (GOCI)Crime Rate by Country
r = +0.91 · very strong · n = 140
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Quality of Life Rank (US News)Standard of Living by CountryA rank: rank 1 is the best
r = +0.90 · very strong · n = 90
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OpportunitySocial Progress Index by Country
r = +0.90 · very strong · n = 131
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Legatum Prosperity RankLegatum Prosperity IndexA rank: rank 1 is the best
r = +0.89 · very strong · n = 134
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Places that have a higher WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score tend to score lower on these (or rank worse)

Fragile States Index
r = −0.91 · very strong · n = 137
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Failed States IndexFailed States
r = −0.91 · very strong · n = 136
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Vulnerability Score (lower is better)Countries that Still Have Slavery
r = −0.90 · very strong · n = 129
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Vulnerability ScoreGlobal Slavery Index by Country
r = −0.90 · very strong · n = 129
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State LegitimacyFailed States
r = −0.87 · very strong · n = 136
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Human RightsFailed States
r = −0.85 · very strong · n = 136
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Quick answers

Which country has the highest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score?: Denmark has the highest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score in 2025, at 0.9, followed by Norway (0.89) and Finland (0.87).
Which country has the lowest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score?: Venezuela has the lowest WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score in 2025, at 0.26.
What is the median WJP Rule of Law Index Overall Score across countries?: The median is 0.52 across the 142 countries with data in 2025.
Where does the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: World Justice Project Rule of Law Datasheet 2024 - WJP; World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2024 - WJP; World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2023 - WJP; World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2022 - WJP.

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