Whether a rule stays on paper depends on a country’s capacity to enforce law. The “G” pillar of ESG ratings and sovereign risk models rest on these indicators.
Governance and enforcement capacity
Open download
Connected
Rule of law and regulatory quality — WGI
Legal instrument
It measures not a particular convention but the enforceability of conventions
What is counted
Contract enforcement, property rights and confidence in the courts (rule of law), and the capacity to formulate and implement regulation (regulatory quality)
Unit
score (−2.5…+2.5)
Coverage
1996–2024 · more than 200 countries
Publisher
World Bank — Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)
Sample value from the publisher’s release
Six WGI dimensions loaded to the platform (about 31,400 observations) · Türkiye 2024: rule of law −0.843 · regulatory quality −0.211
PERCEPTION-BASED: derived from surveys and expert assessments, not measurement. Zero is the world average, not an absolute threshold. Small year-to-year moves usually sit inside the confidence interval. It measures general enforcement capacity rather than the stringency of environmental law; for maritime law enforcement it is a proxy, not a direct measure.
Protected Planet / WDPA — protection status detail (IUCN category, governance type, area geometry)
Bulk download of the detailed records and API access require registration and a key; sources demanding credentials are not connected here. The country-level coverage percentage IS connected, via the World Bank compilation; only the site-level detail remains closed.
Global Fishing Watch — AIS-based fishing effort
API access requires a token.
IMO GISIS — casualty and incident records
The non-public modules require an account, and no machine-readable export of the public subset is published.
