Barbados vs South Korea: Judicial Corruption Score

Barbados
1.56
in 2025
South Korea
1.61
in 2025
Barbados rank
36th
South Korea rank
33rd

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Barbados
  • South Korea
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How they compare

South Korea currently reports 1.61 against 1.56 in Barbados, a difference of 0.048.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 36th and South Korea ranks 33rd 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.