China vs Nepal: Judicial Corruption Score

China
-1.08
in 2025
Nepal
-1.03
in 2025
China rank
133rd
Nepal rank
130th

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • China
  • Nepal
-2-1012178919072025

How they compare

Nepal currently reports -1.03 against -1.08 in China, a difference of 0.05.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Nepal ahead.

China ranks 133rd and Nepal ranks 130th 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.