Rule of Law Index 2025 Dropping Soon!

Mark your calendar! On October 28th, the World Justice Project will release the 2025 WJP Rule of Law Index®, our flagship measure of how the rule of law is experienced and perceived around the globe.

Turning Data into Insight

From national policymakers to NGOs and think tanks that integrate our original data into their own indexes and evaluations, we are proud that the WJP Rule of Law Index® helps many make sense of democracy, human rights, justice, safety, and accountability.

We are particularly excited by the creative and unexpected ways researchers use our data, some recent citations:
 

• Criminal Justice and Homicide Rates (Journal of Criminal Justice) — By analyzing the relationship between the WJP Rule of Law Index’s Criminal Justice variables and the UNODC database on homicides, researchers found that prison system effectiveness has the most substantial and statistically significant association with lower homicide rates.
   
• Elites, Confidentiality, and Offshore Finance (PLOS One) — Using data from the Offshore Leaks Database and the WJP Rule of Law Index, researchers examined distinct patterns across 65 countries. They found that elites from corrupt countries tend to diversify their assets, and those facing a high risk of government confiscation (due to lack of civil rights or highly effective law enforcement) use identity-concealing strategies.
   
• Machine Learning (ML) in the Prediction of Wellbeing (Nature) — A multi-country team applied ML techniques to understand self-reported wellbeing in Germany, the UK, and the United States. To contextualize key drivers—including the notable US outlier of ethnicity—the researchers cited our measure of equal treatment and absence of discrimination.

Have you used WJP data in your own work? We would love to hear about it!

Remember, our data is free to use.
 

A word from our friends at Accountability Lab

The Global Aid Freeze Survey is quickly becoming the largest dataset on this critical issue, already informing policy and funding decisions by governments, foundations, and networks. 

The survey takes just 5 minutes and is available in multiple languages. If you have not already, please offer your invaluable input :
 

• Survey in English
   
• استطلاع باللغة العربية
   
• Encuesta en español
   
• Enquête en français

If your organization requires support to strengthen resilience or manage organizational change during this difficult period, please reach out to Civic Strength Partners (CSP).