Government powers effectively limited by the judiciary

scale 0-1, 2012–2018

Country	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Afghanistan			0.38	0.34	0.33	0.34	0.35
Albania	0.34	0.41	0.49	0.55	0.32	0.32	0.31
Antigua and Barbuda					0.74	0.73	0.71
Argentina	0.39	0.37	0.35	0.36	0.45	0.46	0.48
Australia	0.88	0.87	0.85	0.87	0.83	0.83	0.83
Austria	0.80	0.80	0.81	0.83	0.84	0.84	0.83
Bahamas					0.64	0.65	0.65
Bangladesh	0.41	0.43	0.45	0.47	0.49	0.50	0.50
Barbados					0.75	0.75	0.75
Belarus	0.26	0.27	0.28	0.32	0.32	0.31	0.29
Belgium	0.72	0.73	0.75	0.80	0.80	0.79	0.79
Belize				0.45	0.46	0.47	0.48
Bolivia	0.25	0.24	0.24	0.27	0.26	0.25	0.24
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.51	0.51	0.51	0.58	0.57	0.49	0.41
Botswana	0.79	0.76	0.74	0.75	0.63	0.61	0.60
Brazil	0.62	0.62	0.62	0.60	0.61	0.64	0.66
Bulgaria	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.36	0.36	0.35
Burkina Faso	0.41	0.41	0.41	0.36	0.39	0.45	0.52
Cambodia	0.26	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25
Cameroon	0.27	0.28	0.30	0.35	0.31	0.30	0.28
Canada	0.78	0.78	0.79	0.83	0.86	0.86	0.85
Chile	0.66	0.65	0.65	0.63	0.61	0.59	0.57
China	0.45	0.43	0.40	0.46	0.38	0.39	0.40
Colombia	0.49	0.50	0.52	0.54	0.47	0.48	0.48
Costa Rica				0.70	0.72	0.73	0.75
Ivory Coast	0.35	0.36	0.37	0.43	0.40	0.40	0.40
Croatia	0.49	0.47	0.45	0.48	0.50	0.51	0.51
Czech Republic	0.68	0.67	0.65	0.68	0.71	0.72	0.73
Denmark	0.92	0.92	0.92	0.96	0.94	0.95	0.95
Dominica					0.63	0.64	0.65
Dominican Republic	0.43	0.40	0.36	0.38	0.38	0.39	0.39
Ecuador	0.28	0.27	0.27	0.33	0.32	0.35	0.37
Egypt	0.64	0.54	0.44	0.50	0.47	0.45	0.43
El Salvador	0.43	0.42	0.42	0.45	0.47	0.47	0.46
Estonia	0.81	0.81	0.81	0.81	0.81	0.82	0.83
Ethiopia	0.34	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.35	0.33	0.31
Finland	0.87	0.85	0.83	0.86	0.88	0.89	0.90
France	0.75	0.72	0.69	0.71	0.70	0.70	0.70
Georgia	0.38	0.40	0.42	0.56	0.54	0.51	0.49
Germany	0.82	0.83	0.84	0.88	0.87	0.86	0.86
Ghana	0.70	0.68	0.65	0.70	0.69	0.70	0.72
Greece	0.58	0.57	0.56	0.62	0.60	0.63	0.65
Grenada					0.77	0.75	0.73
Guatemala	0.43	0.44	0.44	0.42	0.48	0.48	0.48
Guyana					0.61	0.61	0.62
Honduras				0.31	0.32	0.33	0.35
Hong Kong	0.82	0.82	0.81	0.78	0.72	0.74	0.76
Hungary	0.64	0.63	0.61	0.43	0.43	0.43	0.43
India	0.67	0.67	0.67	0.70	0.68	0.68	0.67
Indonesia	0.54	0.56	0.59	0.65	0.63	0.65	0.66
Iran	0.48	0.48	0.47	0.48	0.52	0.50	0.48
Italy	0.67	0.67	0.67	0.70	0.69	0.69	0.69
Jamaica	0.65	0.66	0.66	0.71	0.74	0.71	0.67
Japan	0.84	0.83	0.81	0.84	0.77	0.76	0.75
Jordan	0.61	0.55	0.48	0.49	0.62	0.61	0.60
Kazakhstan	0.31	0.29	0.26	0.32	0.43	0.44	0.44
Kenya	0.39	0.45	0.52	0.56	0.51	0.52	0.53
Kyrgyzstan	0.30	0.34	0.38	0.41	0.33	0.31	0.29
Lebanon	0.47	0.47	0.46	0.50	0.49	0.48	0.46
Liberia	0.49	0.49	0.49	0.49	0.51	0.51	0.52
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)			0.39	0.35	0.32	0.34	0.36
Madagascar	0.41	0.38	0.35	0.38	0.38	0.39	0.39
Malawi	0.51	0.53	0.56	0.63	0.60	0.61	0.62
Malaysia	0.59	0.59	0.58	0.57	0.54	0.54	0.53
Mexico	0.49	0.50	0.50	0.47	0.44	0.45	0.46
Moldova	0.34	0.33	0.32	0.33	0.33	0.34	0.35
Mongolia	0.42	0.43	0.44	0.49	0.48	0.50	0.53
Morocco	0.53	0.54	0.55	0.57	0.59	0.56	0.53
Burma (Myanmar)			0.38	0.46	0.50	0.48	0.47
Nepal	0.55	0.56	0.57	0.63	0.63	0.62	0.62
Netherlands	0.84	0.85	0.85	0.91	0.91	0.91	0.91
New Zealand	0.91	0.91	0.90	0.90	0.90	0.88	0.86
Nicaragua	0.24	0.24	0.25	0.29	0.30	0.31	0.32
Nigeria	0.49	0.49	0.49	0.52	0.57	0.58	0.59
Norway	0.91	0.91	0.91	0.91	0.91	0.93	0.95
Pakistan	0.52	0.52	0.53	0.53	0.55	0.55	0.55
Panama	0.31	0.31	0.32	0.43	0.47	0.47	0.46
Peru	0.49	0.47	0.45	0.46	0.49	0.51	0.52
Philippines	0.54	0.57	0.60	0.68	0.59	0.58	0.58
Poland	0.72	0.73	0.74	0.79	0.62	0.59	0.56
Portugal	0.65	0.65	0.66	0.76	0.75	0.76	0.77
South Korea	0.55	0.66	0.78	0.84	0.62	0.61	0.59
Romania	0.51	0.53	0.56	0.63	0.66	0.66	0.65
Russia	0.27	0.28	0.30	0.32	0.37	0.37	0.37
Senegal	0.44	0.47	0.51	0.57	0.57	0.51	0.46
Serbia	0.31	0.32	0.33	0.36	0.32	0.34	0.35
Sierra Leone	0.44	0.43	0.42	0.38	0.41	0.42	0.42
Singapore	0.70	0.70	0.69	0.82	0.79	0.77	0.75
Slovenia	0.54	0.54	0.54	0.55	0.53	0.54	0.56
South Africa	0.63	0.62	0.60	0.63	0.66	0.66	0.66
Spain	0.74	0.67	0.59	0.62	0.63	0.62	0.62
Sri Lanka	0.59	0.56	0.53	0.44	0.50	0.55	0.60
Saint Kitts and Nevis					0.78	0.79	0.80
Saint Lucia					0.69	0.71	0.73
Saint Vincent and Grenadines					0.55	0.54	0.54
Suriname					0.57	0.57	0.57
Sweden	0.88	0.86	0.84	0.87	0.83	0.83	0.83
Tanzania	0.50	0.50	0.51	0.54	0.56	0.54	0.51
Thailand	0.49	0.51	0.53	0.59	0.58	0.56	0.54
Trinidad and Tobago					0.77	0.77	0.78
Tunisia	0.55	0.55	0.55	0.59	0.62	0.56	0.51
Turkey	0.46	0.45	0.44	0.40	0.29	0.28	0.28
Uganda	0.48	0.43	0.38	0.37	0.42	0.42	0.43
Ukraine	0.23	0.24	0.25	0.22	0.24	0.27	0.30
United Arab Emirates	0.61	0.62	0.63	0.65	0.67	0.62	0.57
United Kingdom	0.76	0.78	0.79	0.83	0.85	0.85	0.84
United States	0.76	0.75	0.73	0.80	0.83	0.82	0.80
Uruguay	0.68	0.69	0.69	0.72	0.72	0.70	0.69
Uzbekistan	0.19	0.21	0.23	0.21	0.21	0.20	0.20
Venezuela	0.23	0.19	0.16	0.18	0.14	0.14	0.14
Vietnam	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.28	0.36	0.36	0.37
Zambia	0.35	0.36	0.38	0.40	0.42	0.40	0.37
Zimbabwe	0.29	0.27	0.26	0.26	0.31	0.32	0.33

Measures whether the judiciary has the independence and the ability in practice to exercise effective checks on the government.

Source: World Justice Project

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