Rule of Law (estimate) - Governance & partnership - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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Rule of law measures the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, in particular the quality of contract enforcement, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. Further documentation and research using the World Governance Indicators (WGI) is available at www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance. Source: World Bank Institute.

Rank	Country	Value
Rule of Law (estimate) - Governance & partnership - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2008)
1	Mauritius	0.88
2	Botswana	0.64
3	Cape Verde	0.51
4	Namibia	0.36
5	Tunisia	0.24
6	Seychelles	0.24
7	South Africa	0.12
8	Egypt	-0.09
9	Ghana	-0.10
10	Morocco	-0.11
11	Gambia	-0.25
12	Tanzania	-0.28
13	Malawi	-0.29
14	Lesotho	-0.30
15	Senegal	-0.31
16	Mali	-0.35
17	Burkina Faso	-0.37
18	Madagascar	-0.46
19	Rwanda	-0.50
20	Sao Tome and Principe	-0.50
21	Zambia	-0.50
22	Swaziland	-0.51
23	Uganda	-0.51
24	Benin	-0.54
25	Djibouti	-0.54
26	Ethiopia	-0.60
27	Gabon	-0.62
28	Libya	-0.65
29	Mozambique	-0.66
30	Algeria	-0.70
31	Niger	-0.80
32	Togo	-0.80
33	Kenya	-0.98
34	Cameroon	-0.99
35	Mauritania	-1.01
36	Sierra Leone	-1.03
37	Comoros	-1.03
38	Burundi	-1.07
39	Nigeria	-1.12
40	Republic of the Congo	-1.16
41	Liberia	-1.23
42	Eritrea	-1.24
43	Angola	-1.28
44	Equatorial Guinea	-1.31
45	Guinea-Bissau	-1.43
46	Central African Republic	-1.44
47	Sudan	-1.50
48	Ivory Coast	-1.52
49	Chad	-1.57
50	Guinea	-1.60
51	Democratic Republic of the Congo	-1.68
52	Zimbabwe	-1.81
53	Somalia	-2.69

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