Finland vs Japan: Judicial Corruption Score

Finland
2.61
in 2025
Japan
2.68
in 2025
Finland rank
11th
Japan rank
8th

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Finland
  • Japan
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How they compare

Japan currently reports 2.68 against 2.61 in Finland, a difference of 0.071.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 217 shared years of data; in 1809 it was Finland ahead.

Finland ranks 11th and Japan ranks 8th 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.