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Iran, Islamic Republic of - Voice and Accountability 2025

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Voice and Accountability · World Bank WGI

-1.50 −0.04 from 2024 Global rank: 188th

Iran, Islamic Republic of's voice and accountability was -1.50 in 2025. This was the 188th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2025▾

Voice and Accountability by Country - 2025
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Norway	1.86	4.5%
2nd	New Zealand	1.76	4.0%
3rd	Switzerland	1.74	4.6%
4th	Denmark	1.70	2.1%
5th	Luxembourg	1.66	1.8%
6th	Finland	1.66	1.6%
7th	Netherlands	1.59	2.1%
8th	Ireland	1.58	6.5%
9th	Sweden	1.55	-1.3%
10th	Australia	1.55	2.9%
11th	Iceland	1.52	4.9%
12th	Liechtenstein	1.51	7.3%
13th	Germany	1.51	3.1%
14th	Canada	1.48	0.0%
15th	Austria	1.46	3.1%
16th	Belgium	1.32	-0.6%
17th	Uruguay	1.32	2.5%
18th	San Marino	1.28	2.8%
19th	Greenland	1.28	0.3%
20th	United Kingdom	1.27	0.3%
21st	Portugal	1.25	3.0%
22nd	Tuvalu	1.24	1.1%
23rd	Estonia	1.24	1.3%
24th	Italy	1.22	9.6%
25th	Czechia	1.21	12.1%
26th	Spain	1.18	-1.0%
27th	Barbados	1.18	1.6%
28th	Japan	1.18	6.5%
29th	France	1.16	0.4%
30th	Samoa	1.14	12.1%
31st	Marshall Islands	1.13	0.8%
32nd	Lithuania	1.12	4.6%
33rd	Kiribati	1.10	0.7%
34th	Greece	1.10	8.3%
35th	Palau	1.08	-0.3%
36th	Slovenia	1.07	-0.6%
37th	Micronesia, Federated States of	1.07	-1.6%
38th	Costa Rica	1.05	-1.9%
39th	Guam	1.05	-4.7%
40th	Latvia	1.05	5.5%
41st	Tonga	1.02	17.2%
42nd	American Samoa	1.02	6.8%
43rd	Chile	1.01	-1.0%
44th	Cayman Islands	0.99	29.4%
45th	Andorra	0.99	-1.1%
46th	Cabo Verde	0.96	0.2%
47th	Korea	0.96	11.4%
48th	Slovak Republic	0.93	2.4%
49th	Malta	0.90	-1.0%
50th	United States	0.85	-2.6%
51st	Cyprus	0.85	-13.0%
52nd	Bahamas, The	0.84	-2.5%
53rd	St. Lucia	0.83	-3.9%
54th	Aruba	0.82	-19.9%
55th	South Africa	0.81	8.9%
56th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	0.79	-4.4%
57th	Grenada	0.78	3.2%
58th	Seychelles	0.76	36.0%
59th	St. Kitts and Nevis	0.74	-4.7%
60th	Antigua and Barbuda	0.74	-0.9%
61st	Dominica	0.73	-6.8%
62nd	Nauru	0.72	12.9%
63rd	Monaco	0.70	6.4%
64th	Croatia	0.67	17.8%
65th	Israel	0.66	2.5%
66th	Trinidad and Tobago	0.66	5.8%
67th	Namibia	0.62	6.4%
68th	Vanuatu	0.61	-3.1%
69th	Poland	0.58	-7.7%
70th	Belize	0.56	4.3%
71st	Jamaica	0.55	-2.5%
72nd	Romania	0.54	6.4%
73rd	Timor-Leste	0.53	22.3%
74th	Argentina	0.52	-1.8%
75th	Mauritius	0.52	-14.9%
76th	Montenegro	0.52	51.5%
77th	Panama	0.51	-7.5%
78th	Botswana	0.47	-7.1%
79th	Puerto Rico (US)	0.44	-2.8%
80th	Dominican Republic	0.42	28.2%
81st	Hungary	0.41	14.0%
82nd	Moldova	0.38	59.5%
83rd	Bulgaria	0.35	-9.1%
84th	Suriname	0.35	-1.5%
85th	Brazil	0.33	-13.6%
86th	Ghana	0.30	-26.0%
87th	North Macedonia	0.29	76.7%
88th	Bhutan	0.26	31.9%
89th	Solomon Islands	0.24	-29.7%
90th	Mongolia	0.20	-18.8%
91st	Malawi	0.19	154.3%
92nd	São Tomé and Principe	0.19	-24.1%
93rd	Colombia	0.17	-15.3%
94th	Albania	0.17	-0.2%
95th	Indonesia	0.16	12.6%
96th	Guyana	0.12	-20.6%
97th	Malaysia	0.11	30.6%
98th	Liberia	0.11	101.5%
99th	Gambia, The	0.10	351.9%
100th	Zambia	0.10	311.5%
101st	Armenia	0.10	29.6%
102nd	Senegal	0.09	-32.5%
103rd	Lesotho	0.06	112.8%
104th	Fiji	0.04	-78.1%
105th	Nepal	0.04	275.2%
106th	Singapore	0.04	153.5%
107th	Maldives	0.03	121.0%
108th	Paraguay	0.00	-90.5%
109th	Kenya	-0.03	74.4%
110th	Kosovo	-0.04	57.2%
111th	Ecuador	-0.04	32.8%
112th	India	-0.05	-149.0%
113th	Philippines	-0.06	-273.6%
114th	Papua New Guinea	-0.06	-1,391.1%
115th	Georgia	-0.07	-289.6%
116th	Peru	-0.08	-233.9%
117th	Serbia	-0.09	-58.7%
118th	Ukraine	-0.13	-31.3%
119th	Mexico	-0.20	-75.6%
120th	Sierra Leone	-0.30	-1.3%
121st	Sri Lanka	-0.31	-34.5%
122nd	Thailand	-0.31	30.9%
123rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	-0.32	-20.3%
124th	Guinea-Bissau	-0.36	18.3%
125th	Madagascar	-0.36	-12.0%
126th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-0.37	-14.8%
127th	Honduras	-0.40	12.0%
128th	Morocco	-0.44	9.8%
129th	Côte d'Ivoire	-0.45	-19.2%
130th	Benin	-0.49	-123.1%
131st	Niger	-0.55	20.8%
132nd	Tunisia	-0.56	-161.3%
133rd	Mauritania	-0.60	8.1%
134th	Brunei Darussalam	-0.61	15.0%
135th	Tanzania	-0.61	-14.1%
136th	Kuwait	-0.62	-3.9%
137th	Mozambique	-0.62	-4.6%
138th	Nigeria	-0.66	-20.0%
139th	Guatemala	-0.66	-24.5%
140th	Macao SAR, China	-0.68	-33.8%
141st	Hong Kong SAR, China	-0.69	-116.6%
142nd	Lebanon	-0.74	-12.7%
143rd	Angola	-0.75	-2.3%
144th	Bangladesh	-0.76	-1.0%
145th	Rwanda	-0.78	13.7%
146th	Qatar	-0.79	18.3%
147th	El Salvador	-0.79	-67.4%
148th	Gabon	-0.81	12.4%
149th	Togo	-0.81	-3.0%
150th	Uganda	-0.81	-16.4%
151st	Jordan	-0.85	-9.4%
152nd	Comoros	-0.89	-9.8%
153rd	Kyrgyz Republic	-0.89	-23.3%
154th	Kazakhstan	-0.90	10.7%
155th	Türkiye	-0.92	-6.4%
156th	Algeria	-0.94	4.1%
157th	Iraq	-0.94	1.9%
158th	Pakistan	-0.95	0.8%
159th	Oman	-1.01	-0.6%
160th	Cameroon	-1.02	4.5%
161st	Zimbabwe	-1.06	2.6%
162nd	Burkina Faso	-1.08	-33.5%
163rd	Eswatini	-1.08	7.0%
164th	Uzbekistan	-1.09	16.8%
165th	United Arab Emirates	-1.09	0.4%
166th	Congo, Republic of	-1.10	4.9%
167th	West Bank and Gaza	-1.12	-0.2%
168th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	-1.13	7.2%
169th	Burundi	-1.15	16.1%
170th	Viet Nam	-1.16	6.8%
171st	Djibouti	-1.17	8.0%
172nd	Cuba	-1.19	4.8%
173rd	Central African Republic	-1.24	2.1%
174th	Mali	-1.31	-29.2%
175th	Saudi Arabia	-1.31	7.5%
176th	Guinea	-1.35	-17.7%
177th	Libya	-1.35	2.8%
178th	Azerbaijan	-1.36	3.9%
179th	Cambodia	-1.36	-5.4%
180th	Russian Federation	-1.38	-7.2%
181st	Bahrain	-1.38	-0.2%
182nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	-1.39	-0.6%
183rd	Yemen, Republic of	-1.44	7.3%
184th	Chad	-1.46	-1.7%
185th	Haiti	-1.47	-24.6%
186th	China	-1.49	1.2%
187th	South Sudan	-1.49	11.4%
188th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	-1.50	-3.0%
189th	Lao PDR	-1.51	7.2%
190th	Sudan	-1.52	5.6%
191st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	-1.53	7.7%
192nd	Tajikistan	-1.55	5.4%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	-1.55	7.3%
194th	Nicaragua	-1.58	-13.6%
195th	Eritrea	-1.64	11.8%
196th	Turkmenistan	-1.72	8.8%
197th	Syrian Arab Republic	-1.79	3.4%
198th	Belarus	-1.83	-9.5%
199th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	-1.85	6.5%
200th	Afghanistan	-2.40	-29.5%
201st	Myanmar	-2.56	-38.8%

FAQ

What was Iran, Islamic Republic of's voice and accountability in 2025?▾

Iran, Islamic Republic of's voice and accountability in 2025 was -1.50. This ranked 188th globally.

How did Iran, Islamic Republic of's voice and accountability change in 2025?▾

Iran, Islamic Republic of's voice and accountability decreased by 3.0% in 2025 compared to 2024.

Which country had the highest voice and accountability in 2025?▾

Norway had the highest voice and accountability in 2025 at 1.86.

What is the voice and accountability of Iran, Islamic Republic of in 2025?▾

The voice and accountability of Iran, Islamic Republic of in 2025 was -1.50. This ranked 188th globally.

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