Rule of Law
Score: 0 – 100
Description: These maps show rule of law across the EU27 and neighbouring countries. Rule of Law captures perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence.
Analysis & Metadata
Analysis:
On average, rule of law decreased by 0.3% per year across the EU27 in the last ten years (of available data).Projection:
If the next decade is like the previous one, rule of law will be around 69 by 2030 on average across the EU27. Data timeline: 1996 – 2020
Data treatment:
- This data has been parsed by a linear regression algorithm in order to complete any missing data with a likely statistical approximation (countries may be missing data for certain years for any number of reasons, see original source) and to produce statistical projections for the near future.
- The EU27 average has been weighted in accordance with population data.
- Worldwide Governance Indicators are scored from -2.5 to 2.5. These have been rescaled to range from 0 to 100. Please note that this data is different from the percentile data, ranked from 0 to 100, also provided by the Worldwide Governance Indicators.
Last updated: Wed 13 October 2021
Disclaimer: This data is taken from publicly available sources. Even though all reasonable endeavours have been made to ensure the reliability of the information presented, it is provided as is, without any guarantee of accuracy. Missing data may have been added using standard statistical approximation methods.