Rule of law in North America

29 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
84.1 /100
Greenland
Median country
65.6 /100
half above, half below
Range
29.1 to 84.1
Nicaragua - Greenland

How to read it

Across 29 countries in North America, the highest value is in Greenland (84.1 /100) and the lowest in Nicaragua (29.1 /100).

The median country is at 65.6 /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…

Compare selected countries · on the world map

Source: World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators · licence

Rule of law over time

/100

Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Greenland84.1
2Canada82.1
3Aruba78.0
4United States73.5
5Cayman Islands71.3
6Bermuda70.7
7Barbados69.5
8Costa Rica67.6
9Antigua and Barbuda67.3
10Saint Kitts and Nevis67.1
11United States Virgin Islands66.9
12Puerto Rico66.4
13Grenada66.3
14Saint Lucia65.6
15Saint Vincent and the Grenadines65.6
16Dominica63.8
17Bahamas61.3
18Jamaica55.6
19Dominican Republic53.8
20Panama52.4
21Trinidad and Tobago50.6
22Belize50.1
23Cuba46.2
24El Salvador44.7
25Guatemala40.4
26Mexico37.1
27Honduras36.7
28Haiti29.4
29Nicaragua29.1
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

Tick a country in the table to add it to the chart above, up to six at a time. The ranking uses the latest year for which at least half of the countries have a value; countries without a value that year are not listed.