Our original research and data is grounded in the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index®. The Index measures how the rule of law is experienced and perceived worldwide based on household and expert surveys in 142 countries and jurisdictions. Our data provides current and reliable information to policy makers, civil society organizations, academics, the media, citizens, businesses, and legal professionals, among others. It is intended to encourage policy reforms, guide program development, and inform research to strengthen the rule of law.
Reports and Resources
The World Justice Project, in partnership with the World Bank Legal Vice Presidency and the Korean Legal Trust Fund, is pursuing a multi-stage project oriented towards supporting the use of justice technologies. As the first product of this collaboration, we published a mapping of justice technologies that follows a people-centered approach:
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Our latest research on U.S. rule of law points to a crisis of confidence. Trust in U.S. institutions is falling. American views on fair elections and justice are highly polarized. And doubts about election legitimacy could undermine a stable 2024 electoral process.
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Enriching the justice data ecosystem by centering people's traits and disparities, and proposing creative approaches to developing and applying justice data.
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New research offers pivotal insights into the justice gap, varied justice journeys, the economics of access to justice, and SDG Indicator 16.3.3
Our latest country reports expand on the WJP Rule of Law Index to explore how people in 26 Latin American and Caribbean countries perceive and experience the rule of law.
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The Corruption in the Caribbean report represents the voices of people throughout the Caribbean and their experiences with corruption in their countries.
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The Atlas of Legal Needs Surveys is an interactive map and directory of all publicly available legal needs surveys conducted since 1993. The Atlas includes more than 250 studies conducted in 110 countries and jurisdictions.
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The "Environmental Governance Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean" represent the first-ever cross-country assessment of how environmental governance functions in practice.
In Measuring the Justice Gap: A People-Centered Assessment of Unmet Justice Needs Around the World, the WJP estimates that an aggregate of 5.1 billion people have unmet justice needs globally.
Previous editions of the WJP Rule of Law Index.