Barbados vs Jamaica: Judicial Corruption Score

Barbados
1.56
in 2025
Jamaica
1.55
in 2025
Barbados rank
36th
Jamaica rank
37th

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Barbados
  • Jamaica
0123190019622025

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 1.56 against 1.55 in Jamaica, a difference of 0.006.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 36th and Jamaica ranks 37th of 176 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Judicial Corruption Score
Source
V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
176 places, 25,711 data points, 1789–2025
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Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of how often individuals or businesses make undocumented extra payments or bribes to obtain a favorable judicial decision, or speed up or delay the process. Higher scores mean less corruption. A score of 0 is approximately the average across all countries and years.