Canada vs United States: Judicial Corruption Score

Canada
3.12
in 2025
United States
2.87
in 2025
Canada rank
4th
United States rank
6th

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Canada
  • United States
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How they compare

Canada currently reports 3.12 against 2.87 in United States, a difference of 0.254.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times United States's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 185 shared years of data; in 1841 it was United States ahead.

Canada ranks 4th and United States ranks 6th 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.