Rule of Law Index 2024 by Country
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Rule of Law Index 2024 by CountryNorthern Europe dominates the top of the global rule-of-law ranking. Denmark leads with a score of 0.90, followed by Norway (0.89), Finland (0.87) and Sweden (0.86) - the four Nordic states form a clear top tier, reflecting strong institutions, low corruption and well-functioning courts. A cluster of countries then ties at 0.83: Germany, New Zealand, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, with Ireland and Estonia just behind at 0.82. The narrow spread among the leaders (0.82 to 0.90) shows how tightly grouped the world's best-governed countries are, and that nine of the top ten are European. The World Justice Project notes that global rule of law has declined for seven consecutive years, making these high-scoring, stable democracies increasingly exceptional.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Justice Project (Rule of Law Index 2024)
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- WJP Rule of Law Index Score 2024 (0 to 1)
- Last updated
- 13 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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