According to the World Justice Project’s (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2017-18, Pakistan has been ranked at 105 out of 113 countries. Pakistan has fared poorly yet again in the annual rankings, ending up in the bottom 10 of the list.
According to the 7th edition of the report, Venezuela is the worst country when it comes to the rule of law with an overall score of 0.29. 3 Asian countries are included in the bottom 10 of the list: Pakistan (105), Afghanistan (111) and Cambodia (112).
Three nations in #Asia make the bottom 10 of this list looking at adherence to the law. Then again, one needs #RuleOfLaw & #trust in government as a foundation…
🇰🇭 #Cambodia
🇦🇫 #Afghanistan
🇵🇰 #PakistanVia World Justice Project
Ht @BryanDruzin pic.twitter.com/J9ErL2FBeu— 🚶🏻Curtis S. Chin (@CurtisSChin) June 15, 2018
Ranking Criteria
WJP’s Rule of Law Index is an annual report which ranks more than 100 countries on the basis of adherence to the law.
The countries are ranked based on these 8 factors:
- Constraints on Government Powers
- Absence of Corruption
- Open Government
- Fundamental Rights
- Order and Security
- Regulatory Enforcement
- Civil Justice
- Criminal Justice
Each of these 8 factors had 3-8 sub-factors which were ranked individually to get a cumulative score for each factor. The overall score of these 8 factors combined to generate an overall score from 0-1, with 1 depicting strong rule of law while 0 showing no adherence to the law.
Top 10 Countries
The European countries lead the way when it comes to following the law, with top 6 spots being bagged by European nations.
Here are the top 10 countries where people are most likely to follow the rule of law:
- Denmark (0.89)
- Norway (0.89)
- Finland (0.87)
- Sweden (0.86)
- Netherlands (0.85)
- Germany (0.83)
- New Zealand (0.81)
- Austria (0.81)
- Canada (0.81)
- Australia (0.81)
Pakistan’s Case
Among the 6 South Asian countries, Pakistan is listed on the 5th place with Afghanistan lagging behind at the last spot.
Pakistan has actually improved one position from last year with an overall score of 0.39, as depicted in the report.
Pakistan earned the best score (66/113) for ‘Constraints of Government Powers’, while the worst one was for ‘Order and Security’ where it got the 113th rank.
Here are the ranks for individual factors:
- Constraints on Government Powers – 66
- Absence of Corruption – 99
- Open Government – 80
- Fundamental Rights – 100
- Order and Security – 113
- Regulatory Enforcement – 105
- Civil Justice – 107
- Criminal Justice – 81
For detailed scoring, refer to the image below:
Pakistan’s rank is slowly getting better; Pakistan was ranked at 109 in 2015-16, 106 in 2016-17 and now 105 in 2017-18 edition of the report. However, the rank needs to get better quickly and the government needs to step up its game.
Source: WJP
this is campaign of election to let know others how worsen is pakistan, in 1970 one of my relative paid postmortem report bribe to get his father postmortem report and top of that he to doctors as well, later paid police to get a FIR and registration where we can get the death certificate the money as well. so why you worry about it? in this country tribes lives here not a educated person.
this is World Justice Project’s (WJP) Rule of Law Index report not a PTI, PPP or PML-N report.
please wake up.
justice can’t be done anelse, improve the education system and merit system should be introduce again through out national-wide
Never argue with a PMLN guy. Their understanding of the justice system & macro / micro economics is formidable.
No this isn’t dumbo. Our country is ruined by corrupt politicians like Zardari, Nawaz Pervaiz khattak
صیح کہا سوائے اس ملک میں ممتاز قادری کی پھانسی کے علاوہ اور کسی کیس میں جلدی نہیں دیکھائی گی اور غرییبوں پر ہی قانوں کا عمل نظر آتا ہے ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
i believe educated and adequate people are not use the abusive, corrupt since 1947, later they killed muhammad ali jinnah and after few years gun down liaquat ali khan, i think we need grow up physically and mentally, i don’t mine ill and sick people comments
i wonder why india and china are not in the list of 10 worst