WJP Rule of Law Index 2025
World Justice Project · Published 28 October 2025
Latest edition: 28 October 2025 · Next expected: October 2027
This ranking is misleading. The expert sample is recruited by snowball and the raw data stays closed, so the rank cannot be rebuilt from outside.
What the report claims
The WJP Rule of Law Index scores 143 countries on eight factors, from constraints on government powers to criminal justice, using a general population poll plus an expert questionnaire. India ranks 86th of 143 with a score of 0.49, down from 79th in 2024, a fall of 1.7 percent driven by judicial delays, weak government accountability, and civil liberties. The framework itself is published, and the eight factors are equally weighted.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 8 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 7 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 8 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 4 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 6 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 2 / 5
Funding and independence: The World Justice Project is an independent nonprofit governed by a board, and its own research staff produce the Index separately from the governments it ranks. Funding is philanthropic at its core, anchored by the founder-linked Neukom Family Foundation, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among other major supporters and government-linked grants also in its donor record. The 2025 Index does not print a complete funder list with amounts or a published firewall between funders and measurement choices, and the organization pairs its indexing with an explicit advocacy mission for legal reform.
Sources: World Justice Project, WJP Rule of Law Index 2025
Updated 9 November 2026