Rule of law in Asia

50 countries in Asia, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
83.0 /100
Japan
Median country
52.1 /100
half above, half below
Range
23.7 to 83.0
Afghanistan - Japan

How to read it

Across 50 countries in Asia, the highest value is in Japan (83.0 /100) and the lowest in Afghanistan (23.7 /100).

The median country is at 52.1 /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

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Japan83.0
2Singapore81.6
3South Korea76.2
4Hong Kong72.8
5Macao71.6
6Bhutan70.6
7Cyprus68.8
8Israel67.3
9Qatar67.1
10Brunei67.1
11United Arab Emirates65.5
12Oman64.7
13Malaysia62.9
14Kuwait60.9
15Saudi Arabia60.6
16Jordan59.9
17Bahrain59.9
18Georgia59.5
19Maldives57.7
20India56.3
21Mongolia55.2
22Armenia54.5
23Indonesia53.4
24Thailand53.3
25Sri Lanka52.5
26Nepal51.7
27Vietnam51.6
28Kazakhstan50.4
29Azerbaijan48.6
30Philippines47.1
31China47.0
32Timor-Leste46.2
33Uzbekistan45.7
34Laos44.2
35Türkiye42.4
36Kyrgyzstan40.9
37Bangladesh40.4
38Palestine39.9
39Pakistan39.5
40Cambodia38.8
41Lebanon38.3
42Tajikistan36.6
43Iran35.7
44Iraq33.6
45Turkmenistan32.6
46North Korea30.7
47Myanmar25.8
48Syria25.8
49Yemen24.2
50Afghanistan23.7
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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