Rule of law in Asia

50 countries in Asia, 2025. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
84.0 /100
Japan
Median country
54.3 /100
half above, half below
Range
26.6 to 84.0
Yemen - Japan

How to read it

Across 50 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Japan (84.0 /100) and the lowest in Yemen (26.6 /100).

The median country is at 54.3 /100: half are above, half below.

Rule of Law (RL) captures perceptions of the extent to which agents respect and follow the rules of society, including contract enforcement, property rights, the police, courts, and the likelihood of crime and violence. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to…

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Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators · licence

Rule of law over time

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Ranking of countries

2025
In chart Share of the highest value
1Japan84.0
2Singapore83.2
3South Korea78.3
4Hong Kong74.1
5Macao72.7
6Cyprus70.8
7Bhutan70.5
8Israel69.8
9Brunei69.7
10Qatar67.9
11United Arab Emirates67.6
12Oman66.9
13Malaysia65.4
14Saudi Arabia63.1
15Kuwait61.9
16Jordan61.8
17Bahrain61.6
18Georgia60.2
19Maldives58.5
20Mongolia56.7
21Thailand56.6
22India56.5
23Vietnam55.8
24Sri Lanka55.2
25Indonesia54.4
26Armenia54.3
27Nepal53.6
28Kazakhstan51.9
29China51.6
30Azerbaijan51.1
31Philippines50.9
32Laos48.1
33Timor-Leste48.1
34Uzbekistan48.1
35Türkiye45.2
36Bangladesh43.6
37Kyrgyzstan43.3
38Palestine42.8
39Cambodia41.3
40Lebanon41.2
41Pakistan41.1
42Iran38.6
43Tajikistan38.5
44Iraq35.7
45Turkmenistan35.3
46North Korea34.1
47Myanmar29.5
48Syria28.7
49Afghanistan28.1
50Yemen26.6
World Bank, WGI · 2025 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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