Criminal justice

scale 0-1, 2013–2016

Country	2013	2014	2015	2016
Afghanistan		0.28	0.24	0.28
Albania	0.41	0.36	0.43	0.46
Antigua and Barbuda				0.70
Argentina	0.43	0.37	0.39	0.43
Australia	0.72	0.73	0.77	0.75
Austria	0.75	0.81	0.82	0.83
Bahamas				0.68
Bangladesh	0.38	0.29	0.33	0.33
Barbados				0.61
Belarus	0.59	0.43	0.48	0.51
Belgium	0.72	0.67	0.67	0.76
Belize			0.29	0.32
Bolivia	0.28	0.23	0.25	0.24
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.62	0.54	0.51	0.56
Botswana	0.72	0.63	0.61	0.52
Brazil	0.49	0.37	0.37	0.39
Bulgaria	0.39	0.41	0.44	0.41
Burkina Faso	0.45	0.38	0.36	0.43
Cambodia	0.40	0.29	0.28	0.30
Cameroon	0.32	0.31	0.32	0.30
Canada	0.75	0.72	0.72	0.74
Chile	0.60	0.57	0.56	0.58
China	0.54	0.43	0.45	0.47
Colombia	0.43	0.35	0.34	0.34
Costa Rica			0.57	0.55
Ivory Coast	0.37	0.40	0.38	0.37
Croatia	0.53	0.55	0.58	0.54
Czech Republic	0.70	0.67	0.69	0.73
Denmark	0.87	0.84	0.84	0.82
Dominica				0.56
Dominican Republic	0.47	0.37	0.37	0.34
Ecuador	0.44	0.33	0.35	0.36
Egypt	0.45	0.41	0.43	0.43
El Salvador	0.25	0.31	0.34	0.34
Estonia	0.75	0.72	0.71	0.70
Ethiopia	0.49	0.45	0.39	0.33
Finland	0.87	0.85	0.85	0.85
France	0.69	0.65	0.66	0.65
Georgia	0.66	0.51	0.54	0.56
Germany	0.76	0.71	0.76	0.77
Ghana	0.45	0.44	0.50	0.47
Greece	0.50	0.46	0.49	0.51
Grenada				0.65
Guatemala	0.37	0.30	0.30	0.29
Guyana				0.35
Honduras			0.21	0.25
Hong Kong	0.76	0.73	0.79	0.80
Hungary	0.64	0.53	0.55	0.54
India	0.44	0.44	0.47	0.41
Indonesia	0.45	0.37	0.35	0.38
Iran	0.45	0.38	0.39	0.43
Italy	0.67	0.63	0.63	0.64
Jamaica	0.42	0.42	0.46	0.45
Japan	0.68	0.69	0.74	0.68
Jordan	0.52	0.56	0.55	0.59
Kazakhstan	0.46	0.40	0.42	0.41
Kenya	0.40	0.33	0.32	0.35
Kyrgyzstan	0.35	0.33	0.34	0.33
Lebanon	0.49	0.42	0.39	0.31
Liberia	0.35	0.33	0.32	0.26
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)	0.53	0.50	0.44	0.51
Madagascar	0.49	0.35	0.35	0.40
Malawi	0.45	0.48	0.45	0.44
Malaysia	0.61	0.53	0.58	0.56
Mexico	0.35	0.25	0.31	0.29
Moldova	0.40	0.33	0.34	0.38
Mongolia	0.54	0.48	0.42	0.48
Morocco	0.35	0.35	0.33	0.37
Burma (Myanmar)		0.32	0.30	0.32
Nepal	0.54	0.43	0.42	0.44
Netherlands	0.80	0.75	0.75	0.80
New Zealand	0.79	0.72	0.77	0.75
Nicaragua	0.42	0.35	0.33	0.32
Nigeria	0.28	0.31	0.36	0.42
Norway	0.85	0.83	0.82	0.83
Pakistan	0.39	0.37	0.31	0.38
Panama	0.38	0.38	0.32	0.29
Peru	0.45	0.37	0.34	0.34
Philippines	0.42	0.36	0.38	0.36
Poland	0.73	0.69	0.74	0.69
Portugal	0.62	0.59	0.67	0.67
South Korea	0.76	0.76	0.76	0.71
Romania	0.60	0.56	0.60	0.58
Russia	0.40	0.36	0.36	0.33
Senegal	0.46	0.42	0.44	0.43
Serbia	0.45	0.41	0.38	0.34
Sierra Leone	0.36	0.32	0.33	0.36
Singapore	0.87	0.85	0.82	0.83
Slovenia	0.59	0.58	0.63	0.66
South Africa	0.49	0.45	0.50	0.52
Spain	0.69	0.61	0.62	0.63
Sri Lanka	0.62	0.49	0.45	0.49
Saint Kitts and Nevis				0.58
Saint Lucia				0.64
Saint Vincent and Grenadines				0.62
Suriname				0.54
Sweden	0.82	0.78	0.78	0.79
Tanzania	0.49	0.46	0.37	0.41
Thailand	0.59	0.51	0.43	0.45
Trinidad and Tobago				0.40
Tunisia	0.52	0.45	0.49	0.46
Turkey	0.42	0.39	0.35	0.40
Uganda	0.43	0.37	0.34	0.34
Ukraine	0.39	0.33	0.36	0.40
United Arab Emirates	0.75	0.78	0.77	0.74
United Kingdom	0.75	0.72	0.76	0.76
United States	0.65	0.65	0.64	0.68
Uruguay	0.50	0.47	0.54	0.58
Uzbekistan	0.36	0.41	0.44	0.44
Venezuela	0.24	0.16	0.16	0.13
Vietnam	0.57	0.47	0.50	0.50
Zambia	0.37	0.36	0.38	0.42
Zimbabwe	0.43	0.36	0.36	0.36

Measurement of whether criminal justice is redressing grievances and bringing action against individuals for offences committed. A continuous score from 0-1 where 0 means no adherence to the rule of law from the perspective of how ordinary people experience it and 1 means full adherence to the rule of law.

Source: World Justice Project

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