World Justice Project -- Rule of Law Index

The World Justice Project is a independent, multidisciplinary organization working to advance the Rule of Law around the world. It publishes a World Justice Ruleof Law Index. The 2016 edition covers 113 countries and jurisdictions relying on more than 110,000 household and expert surveys to measure performance against 44 indicators and 8 primary rule of law factors. The index is built from the assessments of 1,000 respondents per country and local experts.

Selected 2016 rankings are as follows:

• Denmark; Norway; Finland; and, Sweden as the four top countries.
• Germany (6^th); United Kingdom (10^th); Australia (11th); and, Canada (12^th).
• Japan (15th); United States of America (18^th).  
• China (80^th); Russian (92th);Turkey (99^th).
• Pakistan (106^th) Cambodia (112^th). 
• Venezuela (113^th) ranks last.