Government powers effectively limited by legislature

scale 0-1, 2012–2018

Country	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Afghanistan			0.61	0.59	0.60	0.56	0.52
Albania	0.57	0.58	0.58	0.60	0.66	0.66	0.66
Antigua and Barbuda					0.66	0.63	0.60
Argentina	0.50	0.45	0.41	0.41	0.61	0.64	0.67
Australia	0.91	0.88	0.86	0.86	0.83	0.84	0.85
Austria	0.88	0.89	0.90	0.85	0.83	0.82	0.82
Bahamas					0.64	0.64	0.64
Bangladesh	0.52	0.53	0.55	0.52	0.55	0.56	0.58
Barbados					0.74	0.75	0.76
Belarus	0.28	0.27	0.27	0.27	0.27	0.27	0.27
Belgium	0.83	0.84	0.84	0.87	0.83	0.84	0.84
Belize				0.52	0.50	0.52	0.54
Bolivia	0.37	0.35	0.33	0.38	0.36	0.35	0.33
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.65	0.64	0.62	0.65	0.64	0.58	0.53
Botswana	0.76	0.74	0.72	0.74	0.57	0.54	0.52
Brazil	0.73	0.72	0.72	0.70	0.74	0.74	0.75
Bulgaria	0.51	0.58	0.65	0.70	0.51	0.48	0.45
Burkina Faso	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.42	0.48	0.55	0.62
Burma (Myanmar)			0.58	0.67	0.71	0.63	0.55
Cambodia	0.43	0.43	0.43	0.43	0.39	0.40	0.41
Cameroon	0.24	0.28	0.33	0.38	0.38	0.37	0.36
Canada	0.78	0.77	0.77	0.73	0.79	0.80	0.81
Chile	0.78	0.78	0.77	0.73	0.73	0.72	0.71
China	0.65	0.62	0.58	0.62	0.58	0.59	0.60
Colombia	0.61	0.60	0.59	0.60	0.59	0.58	0.57
Costa Rica				0.81	0.78	0.79	0.80
Croatia	0.67	0.63	0.59	0.61	0.68	0.67	0.66
Czech Republic	0.79	0.78	0.78	0.75	0.77	0.75	0.73
Denmark	0.91	0.91	0.90	0.90	0.91	0.92	0.92
Dominica					0.50	0.47	0.44
Dominican Republic	0.61	0.56	0.52	0.53	0.48	0.50	0.51
Ecuador	0.40	0.38	0.36	0.35	0.34	0.41	0.48
Egypt	0.66	0.59	0.51	0.37	0.21	0.20	0.19
El Salvador	0.69	0.65	0.61	0.65	0.61	0.59	0.57
Estonia	0.77	0.77	0.76	0.78	0.77	0.80	0.83
Ethiopia	0.41	0.40	0.39	0.42	0.42	0.41	0.40
Finland	0.88	0.87	0.85	0.86	0.87	0.87	0.88
France	0.81	0.80	0.80	0.79	0.76	0.74	0.71
Georgia	0.49	0.50	0.50	0.60	0.62	0.60	0.59
Germany	0.86	0.84	0.83	0.84	0.82	0.82	0.82
Ghana	0.84	0.82	0.79	0.78	0.79	0.80	0.80
Greece	0.66	0.65	0.63	0.61	0.58	0.61	0.64
Grenada					0.64	0.62	0.60
Guatemala	0.61	0.60	0.59	0.56	0.63	0.62	0.61
Guyana					0.59	0.60	0.61
Honduras				0.51	0.46	0.46	0.46
Hong Kong	0.89	0.88	0.87	0.79	0.78	0.75	0.72
Hungary	0.59	0.55	0.52	0.38	0.36	0.36	0.36
India	0.71	0.70	0.69	0.69	0.77	0.74	0.71
Indonesia	0.74	0.75	0.76	0.78	0.78	0.79	0.79
Iran	0.49	0.49	0.48	0.26	0.33	0.34	0.34
Italy	0.73	0.73	0.72	0.72	0.73	0.72	0.72
Ivory Coast	0.46	0.45	0.44	0.51	0.47	0.45	0.43
Jamaica	0.67	0.67	0.67	0.68	0.67	0.67	0.66
Japan	0.89	0.85	0.81	0.81	0.67	0.66	0.65
Jordan	0.62	0.50	0.38	0.35	0.63	0.64	0.65
Kazakhstan	0.36	0.33	0.31	0.34	0.44	0.45	0.46
Kenya	0.56	0.60	0.65	0.73	0.67	0.64	0.61
Kyrgyzstan	0.58	0.61	0.64	0.61	0.57	0.55	0.52
Lebanon	0.74	0.73	0.72	0.75	0.71	0.74	0.76
Liberia	0.73	0.71	0.68	0.70	0.75	0.69	0.63
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)	0.51	0.51	0.51	0.43	0.40	0.47	0.55
Madagascar	0.50	0.47	0.44	0.52	0.54	0.51	0.48
Malawi	0.53	0.55	0.58	0.65	0.62	0.62	0.62
Malaysia	0.69	0.69	0.70	0.66	0.58	0.54	0.49
Mexico	0.72	0.71	0.70	0.60	0.58	0.58	0.58
Moldova	0.53	0.52	0.51	0.60	0.61	0.61	0.60
Mongolia	0.62	0.62	0.61	0.60	0.58	0.63	0.69
Morocco	0.67	0.64	0.61	0.67	0.68	0.66	0.64
Nepal	0.60	0.61	0.61	0.74	0.74	0.75	0.77
Netherlands	0.87	0.86	0.85	0.88	0.89	0.90	0.90
New Zealand	0.91	0.90	0.89	0.86	0.86	0.85	0.83
Nicaragua	0.38	0.37	0.36	0.38	0.34	0.35	0.36
Nigeria	0.62	0.63	0.63	0.64	0.66	0.67	0.68
Norway	0.92	0.92	0.92	0.93	0.94	0.94	0.95
Pakistan	0.55	0.54	0.53	0.62	0.62	0.59	0.57
Panama	0.37	0.36	0.34	0.53	0.59	0.56	0.53
Peru	0.72	0.68	0.63	0.63	0.72	0.75	0.78
Philippines	0.76	0.74	0.72	0.69	0.67	0.64	0.61
Poland	0.83	0.81	0.79	0.79	0.61	0.58	0.54
Portugal	0.76	0.76	0.75	0.79	0.79	0.81	0.84
Romania	0.59	0.60	0.62	0.66	0.74	0.74	0.73
Russia	0.32	0.36	0.40	0.40	0.35	0.36	0.36
Saint Kitts and Nevis					0.68	0.68	0.69
Saint Lucia					0.63	0.64	0.65
Saint Vincent and Grenadines					0.54	0.53	0.52
Senegal	0.51	0.56	0.60	0.61	0.65	0.62	0.58
Serbia	0.55	0.55	0.56	0.56	0.52	0.48	0.45
Sierra Leone	0.67	0.64	0.61	0.57	0.55	0.55	0.54
Singapore	0.65	0.66	0.67	0.69	0.65	0.60	0.54
Slovenia	0.71	0.70	0.69	0.56	0.55	0.61	0.68
South Africa	0.72	0.69	0.66	0.64	0.57	0.55	0.54
South Korea	0.54	0.65	0.77	0.80	0.63	0.63	0.63
Spain	0.80	0.74	0.67	0.69	0.69	0.70	0.70
Sri Lanka	0.60	0.56	0.52	0.48	0.52	0.55	0.57
Suriname					0.53	0.50	0.47
Sweden	0.89	0.85	0.81	0.80	0.83	0.83	0.83
Tanzania	0.66	0.66	0.65	0.69	0.55	0.52	0.49
Thailand	0.67	0.64	0.62	0.40	0.55	0.54	0.53
Trinidad and Tobago					0.74	0.76	0.77
Tunisia	0.68	0.67	0.66	0.70	0.73	0.69	0.64
Turkey	0.52	0.50	0.47	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.40
Uganda	0.46	0.44	0.43	0.41	0.40	0.40	0.41
Ukraine	0.41	0.50	0.59	0.61	0.63	0.59	0.56
United Arab Emirates	0.50	0.51	0.52	0.53	0.55	0.55	0.55
United Kingdom	0.80	0.82	0.83	0.83	0.85	0.84	0.84
United States	0.88	0.84	0.81	0.87	0.86	0.85	0.83
Uruguay	0.72	0.72	0.73	0.72	0.80	0.79	0.78
Uzbekistan	0.05	0.06	0.07	0.11	0.12	0.12	0.11
Venezuela	0.29	0.26	0.23	0.24	0.26	0.26	0.27
Vietnam	0.33	0.32	0.30	0.31	0.42	0.42	0.42
Zambia	0.53	0.52	0.51	0.51	0.52	0.50	0.49
Zimbabwe	0.36	0.35	0.34	0.36	0.32	0.31	0.31

Measures whether legislative bodies have the ability in practice to exercise effective checks on and oversight of the government. 1 signifies the highest score and 0 signifies the lowest score.

Source: World Justice Project

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