Italy vs Lesotho: Judicial Corruption Score

Italy
1.05
in 2025
Lesotho
1.11
in 2025
Italy rank
53rd
Lesotho rank
50th

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Italy
  • Lesotho
-0.500.51186119432025

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 1.11 against 1.05 in Italy, a difference of 0.057.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Italy's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Italy ahead.

Italy ranks 53rd and Lesotho ranks 50th 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.