Nigeria vs Sierra Leone: Judicial Corruption Score

Nigeria

-0.411

in 2025

Sierra Leone

-0.377

in 2025

Nigeria rank

105th

Sierra Leone rank

103rd

Judicial Corruption Score over time

Nigeria
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports -0.377 against -0.411 in Nigeria, a difference of 0.034.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 112 shared years of data; in 1914 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Nigeria ranks 105th and Sierra Leone ranks 103rd 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: 07 August 2026

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.