Kuwait vs Portugal: Judicial Corruption Score

Kuwait
0.796
in 2025
Portugal
0.737
in 2025
Kuwait rank
68th
Portugal rank
71st

Judicial Corruption Score over time

  • Kuwait
  • Portugal
00.511.52178919072025

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 0.796 against 0.737 in Portugal, a difference of 0.059.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Portugal's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 237 shared years of data; in 1789 it was Kuwait ahead.

Kuwait ranks 68th and Portugal ranks 71st 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.