WJP Rule of Law Index 2024: Which Countries Lead in Justice and Accountability?

May 29, 2025

What the Rule of Law really mean? Why it matters

The Rule of Law is the report that measures how people and institutions operate in an organized, systematic manner under specific rules and regulations. Their motto is that no government institution or individual is above the law, and those who break it should be accountable. Everybody is equal in society and should get equal rights and justice.

According to the World Justice Project, the Rule of Law Index is measured based on 8 indicators given below

Constraints on Government Powers
Absence of Corruption
Open Government
Fundamental Rights
Order and Security
Regulatory Enforcement
Civil Justice
Criminal Justice

What Is a System? Why a Human-Friendly System Is Essential for Rule of Law

A system is a set of rules and regulations based on an ideology, which is necessary for every sector of the world to work properly. Similarly, it is necessary to have a system in human society in which different families are associated with different sectors.

If we study history, we will know that the successes or failures of the nations have been entirely dependent on the system. Either the ideology is wrong, or the implementation and administration are poor, which aren’t leading the nation to progress.

Countries that establish a system based on a human-friendly ideology and ensure that the law is enforced correctly, always remain ideal to the world. That’s what the rule of law index report is concerned about.

A system based on a human-friendly ideology, where law is enforced correctly, always remains ideal in the world.

Source: worldjusticeproject.org

Rule Of Law Index 2024: List Of All Countries

GLOBAL RANK	Countries	OVERALL SCORE	Government Powers	Absence of Corruption	Open Government	Fundamental Rights	Order and Security	Regulatory Enforcement	Civil Justice	Criminal Justice
1	Denmark	0.9	0.94	0.95	0.86	0.92	0.93	0.89	0.87	0.84
2	Norway	0.89	0.92	0.94	0.88	0.9	0.93	0.88	0.87	0.83
3	Finland	0.87	0.92	0.9	0.86	0.89	0.93	0.86	0.8	0.84
4	Sweden	0.86	0.86	0.91	0.84	0.87	0.93	0.83	0.83	0.78
5	Germany	0.83	0.86	0.84	0.79	0.86	0.89	0.84	0.82	0.78
6	New Zealand	0.83	0.86	0.89	0.83	0.83	0.88	0.85	0.79	0.74
7	Luxembourg	0.83	0.82	0.85	0.81	0.85	0.95	0.85	0.78	0.73
8	Netherlands	0.83	0.83	0.88	0.81	0.83	0.85	0.84	0.83	0.75
9	Ireland	0.82	0.84	0.83	0.81	0.84	0.93	0.84	0.74	0.74
10	Estonia	0.82	0.82	0.82	0.81	0.82	0.91	0.8	0.8	0.75
11	Australia	0.8	0.82	0.83	0.81	0.78	0.87	0.81	0.74	0.72
12	Canada	0.8	0.82	0.82	0.8	0.82	0.9	0.81	0.68	0.74
13	Austria	0.79	0.82	0.79	0.68	0.83	0.91	0.8	0.74	0.79
14	Japan	0.79	0.72	0.82	0.71	0.78	0.93	0.8	0.77	0.77
15	United Kingdom	0.78	0.82	0.83	0.8	0.8	0.84	0.78	0.71	0.7
16	Singapore	0.78	0.68	0.92	0.6	0.68	0.94	0.87	0.79	0.78
17	Belgium	0.78	0.81	0.8	0.76	0.84	0.81	0.79	0.74	0.7
18	Lithuania	0.77	0.76	0.75	0.76	0.79	0.9	0.76	0.78	0.7
19	Korea, Rep.	0.74	0.71	0.67	0.72	0.75	0.84	0.75	0.76	0.72
20	Czechia	0.74	0.75	0.68	0.72	0.79	0.89	0.72	0.68	0.71
21	Latvia	0.73	0.7	0.69	0.73	0.77	0.86	0.72	0.71	0.68
22	France	0.72	0.73	0.75	0.74	0.74	0.78	0.74	0.67	0.65
23	Hong Kong SAR, China	0.72	0.56	0.84	0.69	0.59	0.92	0.8	0.71	0.68
24	Uruguay	0.72	0.77	0.73	0.74	0.8	0.71	0.72	0.72	0.58
25	Spain	0.71	0.7	0.73	0.69	0.78	0.82	0.68	0.64	0.67
26	United States	0.7	0.67	0.73	0.75	0.68	0.83	0.72	0.63	0.59
27	Slovenia	0.69	0.66	0.66	0.66	0.77	0.89	0.64	0.67	0.58
28	Portugal	0.68	0.75	0.72	0.63	0.75	0.78	0.6	0.63	0.57
29	Costa Rica	0.68	0.76	0.63	0.69	0.77	0.69	0.68	0.6	0.57
30	Malta	0.67	0.63	0.64	0.63	0.74	0.91	0.59	0.6	0.63
31	Cyprus	0.67	0.67	0.64	0.6	0.72	0.8	0.65	0.62	0.67
32	Italy	0.66	0.7	0.65	0.64	0.72	0.75	0.62	0.57	0.63
33	Poland	0.66	0.61	0.71	0.65	0.63	0.85	0.63	0.62	0.58
34	Slovak Republic	0.66	0.64	0.54	0.71	0.72	0.9	0.62	0.55	0.59
35	Barbados	0.66	0.65	0.7	0.55	0.74	0.8	0.63	0.62	0.58
36	Chile	0.66	0.71	0.69	0.7	0.72	0.67	0.63	0.6	0.54
37	Antigua and Barbuda	0.64	0.62	0.63	0.52	0.71	0.79	0.62	0.68	0.53
38	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.64	0.62	0.65	0.46	0.69	0.77	0.61	0.69	0.59
39	United Arab Emirates	0.64	0.58	0.78	0.34	0.44	0.91	0.7	0.66	0.68
40	Rwanda	0.63	0.61	0.68	0.56	0.53	0.85	0.61	0.66	0.56
41	Romania	0.62	0.6	0.53	0.62	0.67	0.83	0.57	0.61	0.53
42	St. Lucia	0.62	0.6	0.63	0.5	0.67	0.73	0.61	0.65	0.55
43	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.62	0.58	0.68	0.48	0.69	0.75	0.54	0.62	0.59
44	Namibia	0.61	0.65	0.52	0.58	0.65	0.75	0.58	0.61	0.55
45	Croatia	0.61	0.57	0.57	0.6	0.68	0.84	0.56	0.56	0.51
46	Mauritius	0.6	0.57	0.58	0.51	0.64	0.75	0.62	0.62	0.55
47	Greece	0.6	0.64	0.57	0.6	0.64	0.72	0.56	0.58	0.5
48	Grenada	0.6	0.58	0.66	0.46	0.63	0.79	0.55	0.6	0.54
49	Georgia	0.6	0.52	0.67	0.59	0.6	0.78	0.57	0.53	0.51
50	The Bahamas	0.59	0.59	0.63	0.48	0.63	0.73	0.5	0.57	0.58
51	Botswana	0.59	0.61	0.57	0.47	0.59	0.71	0.59	0.61	0.57
52	Kuwait	0.58	0.54	0.67	0.42	0.45	0.88	0.65	0.57	0.47
53	Dominica	0.58	0.53	0.61	0.49	0.63	0.72	0.53	0.56	0.55
54	Jamaica	0.57	0.63	0.53	0.56	0.64	0.61	0.55	0.55	0.48
55	Malaysia	0.57	0.57	0.57	0.41	0.49	0.78	0.56	0.62	0.56
56	Montenegro	0.57	0.55	0.49	0.55	0.67	0.82	0.47	0.53	0.48
57	South Africa	0.56	0.61	0.46	0.61	0.63	0.6	0.51	0.58	0.5
58	Kosovo	0.56	0.57	0.47	0.57	0.61	0.84	0.47	0.48	0.47
59	Bulgaria	0.56	0.52	0.45	0.6	0.61	0.78	0.53	0.53	0.45
60	Senegal	0.55	0.55	0.55	0.44	0.59	0.7	0.57	0.55	0.46
61	Jordan	0.55	0.47	0.58	0.39	0.46	0.76	0.55	0.61	0.56
62	Ghana	0.55	0.66	0.39	0.51	0.57	0.71	0.53	0.57	0.45
63	Argentina	0.55	0.56	0.46	0.61	0.68	0.61	0.5	0.56	0.4
64	Moldova	0.54	0.53	0.38	0.57	0.61	0.82	0.46	0.5	0.42
65	Kazakhstan	0.54	0.45	0.5	0.47	0.46	0.8	0.53	0.62	0.46
66	Mongolia	0.53	0.53	0.43	0.49	0.56	0.76	0.49	0.54	0.48
67	North Macedonia	0.53	0.47	0.46	0.52	0.62	0.8	0.45	0.51	0.44
68	Indonesia	0.53	0.64	0.42	0.55	0.49	0.69	0.57	0.47	0.39
69	Nepal	0.52	0.59	0.41	0.51	0.52	0.73	0.49	0.45	0.47
70	Malawi	0.52	0.57	0.42	0.45	0.57	0.68	0.46	0.56	0.44
71	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.52	0.46	0.44	0.49	0.58	0.77	0.48	0.46	0.47
72	Panama	0.52	0.54	0.41	0.56	0.63	0.7	0.49	0.48	0.35
73	Hungary	0.51	0.36	0.49	0.45	0.54	0.9	0.45	0.46	0.46
74	Trinidad and Tobago	0.51	0.52	0.48	0.53	0.58	0.65	0.48	0.55	0.31
75	Sri Lanka	0.51	0.51	0.49	0.52	0.49	0.68	0.49	0.45	0.42
76	Tunisia	0.5	0.51	0.47	0.46	0.48	0.72	0.49	0.49	0.41
77	Guyana	0.5	0.53	0.45	0.44	0.55	0.63	0.48	0.52	0.4
78	Thailand	0.5	0.46	0.46	0.48	0.48	0.74	0.45	0.5	0.41
79	India	0.5	0.56	0.41	0.59	0.46	0.67	0.48	0.44	0.38
80	Brazil	0.5	0.51	0.45	0.59	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.51	0.33
81	Vietnam	0.5	0.47	0.42	0.44	0.46	0.78	0.46	0.46	0.47
82	Belize	0.5	0.48	0.45	0.45	0.52	0.71	0.42	0.52	0.4
83	Uzbekistan	0.49	0.37	0.47	0.38	0.44	0.9	0.44	0.51	0.45
84	Algeria	0.49	0.48	0.45	0.36	0.43	0.76	0.49	0.56	0.42
85	Suriname	0.49	0.49	0.44	0.38	0.52	0.65	0.46	0.49	0.53
86	Dominican Republic	0.49	0.51	0.41	0.57	0.58	0.64	0.43	0.44	0.37
87	The Gambia	0.49	0.58	0.47	0.38	0.51	0.69	0.38	0.5	0.4
88	Ukraine	0.49	0.46	0.34	0.56	0.59	0.62	0.43	0.53	0.37
89	Albania	0.48	0.43	0.37	0.47	0.57	0.77	0.43	0.45	0.38
90	Peru	0.48	0.58	0.33	0.54	0.59	0.62	0.46	0.41	0.33
91	Colombia	0.48	0.5	0.39	0.62	0.51	0.53	0.52	0.46	0.32
92	Morocco	0.48	0.51	0.41	0.42	0.43	0.69	0.5	0.5	0.37
93	Benin	0.48	0.49	0.4	0.39	0.52	0.69	0.47	0.43	0.42
94	Serbia	0.47	0.34	0.41	0.44	0.55	0.76	0.44	0.47	0.38
95	China	0.47	0.32	0.54	0.41	0.25	0.81	0.5	0.52	0.45
96	Tanzania	0.47	0.5	0.41	0.39	0.44	0.7	0.46	0.48	0.37
97	Ecuador	0.46	0.51	0.36	0.52	0.53	0.57	0.45	0.44	0.31
98	Burkina Faso	0.46	0.49	0.43	0.45	0.51	0.43	0.47	0.44	0.48
99	Philippines	0.46	0.48	0.43	0.47	0.41	0.67	0.47	0.46	0.31
100	Paraguay	0.46	0.49	0.3	0.55	0.5	0.69	0.45	0.4	0.27
101	Kyrgyz Republic	0.45	0.43	0.29	0.49	0.46	0.75	0.4	0.47	0.33
102	Kenya	0.45	0.48	0.27	0.5	0.48	0.55	0.45	0.5	0.39
103	Zambia	0.45	0.46	0.38	0.4	0.4	0.68	0.43	0.46	0.4
104	Côte d'Ivoire	0.45	0.39	0.35	0.36	0.45	0.67	0.52	0.51	0.36
105	Belarus	0.45	0.26	0.49	0.31	0.34	0.81	0.43	0.55	0.39
106	Togo	0.45	0.37	0.42	0.31	0.45	0.69	0.5	0.47	0.36
107	Guatemala	0.44	0.49	0.34	0.53	0.53	0.6	0.42	0.34	0.3
108	Lebanon	0.44	0.48	0.36	0.44	0.46	0.65	0.44	0.4	0.31
109	Liberia	0.44	0.5	0.31	0.46	0.52	0.61	0.41	0.41	0.31
110	Sierra Leone	0.43	0.47	0.35	0.38	0.49	0.66	0.35	0.41	0.36
111	El Salvador	0.43	0.36	0.35	0.43	0.41	0.71	0.48	0.49	0.22
112	Madagascar	0.43	0.42	0.27	0.45	0.46	0.71	0.38	0.42	0.31
113	Russian Federation	0.43	0.31	0.42	0.45	0.36	0.63	0.47	0.5	0.29
114	Niger	0.43	0.37	0.39	0.35	0.45	0.6	0.46	0.44	0.35
115	Angola	0.43	0.4	0.44	0.37	0.37	0.6	0.43	0.44	0.36
116	Honduras	0.42	0.39	0.32	0.45	0.46	0.64	0.39	0.41	0.27
117	Türkiye	0.42	0.29	0.45	0.4	0.31	0.72	0.42	0.4	0.34
118	Mexico	0.41	0.43	0.27	0.57	0.47	0.52	0.43	0.37	0.25
119	Guinea	0.41	0.37	0.29	0.36	0.49	0.71	0.37	0.39	0.31
120	Nigeria	0.4	0.49	0.32	0.42	0.42	0.36	0.41	0.44	0.38
121	Congo, Rep.	0.4	0.36	0.3	0.33	0.39	0.63	0.43	0.44	0.33
122	Gabon	0.4	0.31	0.25	0.37	0.44	0.65	0.46	0.4	0.3
123	Zimbabwe	0.4	0.33	0.31	0.33	0.34	0.68	0.36	0.46	0.36
124	Mali	0.39	0.41	0.32	0.44	0.48	0.37	0.46	0.4	0.29
125	Mozambique	0.39	0.41	0.34	0.36	0.39	0.5	0.39	0.42	0.31
126	Uganda	0.39	0.38	0.27	0.39	0.34	0.57	0.43	0.42	0.32
127	Bangladesh	0.39	0.36	0.33	0.4	0.3	0.63	0.39	0.36	0.31
128	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0.39	0.32	0.38	0.27	0.2	0.63	0.43	0.51	0.34
129	Pakistan	0.38	0.45	0.32	0.41	0.37	0.37	0.38	0.39	0.36
130	Ethiopia	0.37	0.33	0.41	0.3	0.28	0.53	0.36	0.41	0.35
131	Bolivia	0.37	0.35	0.23	0.44	0.44	0.6	0.38	0.3	0.2
132	Mauritania	0.36	0.34	0.3	0.28	0.38	0.63	0.29	0.4	0.27
133	Cameroon	0.36	0.37	0.25	0.34	0.36	0.48	0.41	0.42	0.23
134	Sudan	0.35	0.27	0.35	0.34	0.32	0.52	0.33	0.35	0.34
135	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0.35	0.24	0.37	0.23	0.24	0.65	0.35	0.38	0.34
136	Congo, Dem. Rep.	0.34	0.39	0.17	0.34	0.4	0.47	0.35	0.35	0.28
137	Nicaragua	0.34	0.22	0.3	0.3	0.28	0.69	0.35	0.3	0.24
138	Myanmar	0.34	0.26	0.41	0.28	0.18	0.58	0.41	0.32	0.23
139	Haiti	0.33	0.35	0.23	0.33	0.43	0.43	0.27	0.34	0.25
140	Afghanistan	0.32	0.35	0.3	0.33	0.25	0.38	0.35	0.32	0.25
141	Cambodia	0.31	0.25	0.23	0.23	0.33	0.66	0.26	0.26	0.26
142	Venezuela, RB	0.26	0.18	0.26	0.27	0.29	0.53	0.19	0.25	0.11

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