World Justice Project

WJP Rule of Law Index

How the rule of law is actually experienced, scored 0-1 from household and expert surveys across eight factors including constraints on government power, absence of corruption, fundamental rights, and civil and criminal justice.

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India’s rank

86 / 143

Rule of Law Index 2025

Ahead of

40%

of the field

Index score

0.489

Published 22 October 2025

India’s rank, 2015–2025best 57, worst 86

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What the publisher changed

The World Justice Project releases each edition's complete score table but no ordinal column, so ranks are computed from that full table. The computed 2025 rank reproduces the 86th of 143 the publisher shows on its own India profile.

Coverage

102-143 countries; ten editions from 2015.

Limitations

Built from general-population and expert surveys, so it records experience and perception rather than case outcomes. The country set grows most years, which moves ranks on its own; the publisher's own year-on-year change is measured only against countries present in both editions.

Every stored edition

India’s rank and score in the WJP Rule of Law Index by edition year
Year	Rank	Field	Index score
2025	86	143	0.489
2024	79	142	0.498
2023	79	142	0.494
2022	77	140	0.497
2021	79	139	0.499
2020	69	128	0.509
2019	68	126	0.511
2018	63	113	0.518
2016	66	113	0.515
2015	57	102	0.514

WJP Rule of Law Index country data Read the methodology

Source: World Justice Project — WJP Rule of Law Index country data
Edition published: 22 October 2025
Coverage: 102-143 countries; ten editions from 2015.

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