Bulgaria vs Romania: Judicial Corruption Score

Bulgaria
-0.28
in 2025
Romania
-0.303
in 2025
Bulgaria rank
97th
Romania rank
98th

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Romania
-1012178919072025

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports -0.28 against -0.303 in Romania, a difference of 0.023.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 148 shared years of data; in 1878 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 97th and Romania ranks 98th 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
Last refreshed

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.