WJP Rule of Law Index 2024: Which Countries Lead in Justice and Accountability?
Denmark has the strongest rule of law in the world for 2024, on 0.9, ahead of Norway on 0.89.
The thirteen strongest of the 142 countries the World Justice Project measures, and the eight factors the overall score averages. Four countries are published at 0.83 and still carry separate ranks.
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A ranked table of the thirteen countries with the strongest rule of law in the World Justice Project’s 2024 index, each with its rank out of 142 and its overall score drawn as a bar. Denmark leads on 0.90, then Norway on 0.89 and Finland on 0.87; Austria closes the list on 0.79. Four countries — Germany, New Zealand, Luxembourg and the Netherlands — are published at 0.83 and still carry separate ranks. An inset lists the eight factors the overall score is the average of.
What goes into the score
- Constraints on government powers
- Absence of corruption
- Open government
- Fundamental rights
- Order and security
- Regulatory enforcement
- Civil justice
- Criminal justice
From the publisher’s own method. On the poster this list is printed in a box over the data it explains; here it sits beside it.
01The figures
WJP Rule of Law Index score, 2024
Every row the chart prints, as text rather than pixels — 13 of them, exactly as World Justice Project published them. Country names link to their profiles.
The overall score is the average of the eight factors above. The publisher prints each rank out of the 142 countries it measures.
02Analysis
What the chart says
What the Rule of Law really mean? Why it matters
The Rule of Law is the report that measures how people and institutions operate in an organized, systematic manner under specific rules and regulations. Their motto is that no government institution or individual is above the law, and those who break it should be accountable. Everybody is equal in society and should get equal rights and justice.
According to the World Justice Project, the Rule of Law Index is measured based on 8 indicators given below
- Constraints on Government Powers
- Absence of Corruption
- Open Government
- Fundamental Rights
- Order and Security
- Regulatory Enforcement
- Civil Justice
- Criminal Justice
What Is a System? Why a Human-Friendly System Is Essential for Rule of Law
A system is a set of rules and regulations based on an ideology, which is necessary for every sector of the world to work properly. Similarly, it is necessary to have a system in human society in which different families are associated with different sectors.
If we study history, we will know that the successes or failures of the nations have been entirely dependent on the system. Either the ideology is wrong, or the implementation and administration are poor, which aren’t leading the nation to progress.
Countries that establish a system based on a human-friendly ideology and ensure that the law is enforced correctly, always remain ideal to the world. That’s what the rule of law index report is concerned about.
A system based on a human-friendly ideology, where law is enforced correctly, always remains ideal in the world.
03Sources
Where these figures come from
Source
WJP Rule of Law Index 2024 — World Justice Project
Index producer
The figures are from the 2024 edition, read on . This page reproduces only the 13 rows the chart itself shows, not the publisher’s full table.
How this site reads a chart — what is stored as published, whose rank is whose, when a country is named at an end, and why a chart is never refreshed.
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“WJP Rule of Law Index 2024: Which Countries Lead in Justice and Accountability?”, Nations Inquiry, 2025. https://nationsinquiry.com/charts/wjp-rule-of-law-index-2024
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