Access to justice for women

How this is measured

Whether women can in practice bring a case, be heard fairly, and have the judgment enforced. Kept beside the same measure for men on purpose: the gap between the two is a different fact from either score, and in several countries it is the larger one. Because it is coded by country experts and then put through a measurement model, every value is an estimate with a credible interval around it. V-Dem publishes those intervals; this site shows only the point estimate, so how firm any single number is cannot be read off the screen. The intervals are wider where fewer experts coded a country and in the earlier centuries, which is exactly where the long series is most tempting to read closely.

163 countries and territories have a figure for 2025. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1789.

Data by year

Source and licence

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