Rule of law in Oceania

18 countries in Oceania, 2024. Unit: score 0-100. World ranking →

First in the ranking
85.7 /100
New Zealand
Median country
74.1 /100
half above, half below
Range
47.1 to 85.7
Papua New Guinea - New Zealand

How to read it

Across 18 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in New Zealand (85.7 /100) and the lowest in Papua New Guinea (47.1 /100).

The median country is at 74.1 /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

/100

Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1New Zealand85.7
2Australia82.3
3Tuvalu78.0
4Palau77.1
5American Samoa75.7
6New Caledonia75.6
7Samoa75.1
8Guam74.8
9French Polynesia74.5
10Federated States of Micronesia73.8
11Marshall Islands71.3
12Kiribati70.5
13Tonga68.9
14Vanuatu64.2
15Fiji62.2
16Nauru61.3
17Solomon Islands59.6
18Papua New Guinea47.1
World Bank, WGI · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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