Rule of Law Weakens Worldwide in 2025, Kazakhstan Holds Regional Ground
The World Justice Project (WJP) has released its 2025 Rule of Law Index, assessing 143 countries through nationwide population surveys, indicating that Central Asian countries demonstrated mixed results amid global backsliding.
Expert evaluations across eight key dimensions, from limits on government powers to the effectiveness of civil and criminal justice, featured global trends and highlighted the regional differences. Each country received a score between 0 and 1, where 1 reflects full adherence to rule-of-law principles, and 0 indicates their absence.
This year’s findings reveal a concerning global trend as the rule of law weakened in 68% of countries, marking the eighth consecutive year in which deterioration outpaced improvement. According to WJP, the global decline is acc...
