Country
Country Profiles
Country
Region
Income Group
Legal Constituency
Albania
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Upper Middle
Civil Law
Percentage
of World
Population
0.04%
Argentina
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper Middle
Civil Law
0.57%
Australia
East Asia & Pacific
High
Common Law
0.32%
Austria
Western Europe & NorthAmerica
High
Civil Law
0.12%
1920
Bangladesh
South Asia
Low
Common Law
2.16%
1972
Belgium
Western Europe & North America
High
Civil Law
0.15%
1831
Bolivia
Latin America & Caribbean
Lower Middle
Civil Law
0.15%
2009
Brazil
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper Middle
Civil Law
2.75%
1988
Bulgaria
Eastern Europe &Central Asia
Upper Middle
Civil Law
0.1%
1991
Cambodia
East Asia & Pacific
Low
Civil Law
0.21%
1993
Cameroon
Sub-Saharan Africa
Lower Middle
0.28%
1996
Canada
Western Europe & North America
High
Civil Law and Common
Law
Common Law
Chile
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper Middle
Civil Law
0.23%
China
East Asia & PacificLower Middle
Civil Law
Colombia
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper Middle
Croatia
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Czech Republic
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
0.5%
Last Constitution
Year
1998
1853
(1994 reform)
1990
(commonwealth)
1982 (act)
Government
Parliamentary
Republic
Presidential Federal
Democracy
Parliamentary
Constitutional
Monarchy
FederalBicameral
Parliament
Parliamentary
Republic
Parliamentary
Monarchy
Presidential
Democratic Republic
Federative Democratic
Republic
Parliamentary
Republic
Constitutional
Monarchy
Federal Republic
Administrative
and Judicial
Division
Existent
Existent
Inexistent
Inexistent
Inexistent
Inexistent
Existent
Existent
Inexistent
Existent
Existent
Inexistent
1980Parliamentary
Democracy
Democratic Republic
19.1%
1982
Socialist Republic
Existent
Civil Law
0.66%
1991
Presidential Republic
Existent
High
Civil Law
0.061%
Inexistent
High
Civil Law
0.15%
Parliamentary
Republic
Parliamentary
Republic
1990
(2010 reform)
1992
Existent
Inexistent
The Index of Legal Development
2012 Official ReportDominican Republic
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper Middle
Civil Law
0.13%
2002
Democratic Republic
Existent
El Salvador
Latin America & Caribbean
Lower Middle
Civil Law
0.088%
1983
Existent
Estonia
Eastern Europe & Central Asia
High
Civil Law
0.018%
1992
Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Low
Civil Law
1.2%
1995
FranceWestern Europe & North America
High
Civil Law
0.93%
1958
Germany
Western Europe & North America
High
Civil Law
1.16%
1919
Presidential
Democratic Republic
Parliamentary
Republic
Federal Parliamentary
Republic
Semi-Presidential
Republic
Democratic Republic
Ghana
Sub-Saharan Africa
Low
Common Law
0.35%
1992
Existent
Guatemala
LatinAmerica & Caribbean
Lower Middle
Civil Law
0.21%
1921
Presidential
Constitutional
Republic
Presidential
Democratic Republic
Hong Kong SAR, China
East Asia & Pacific
High
Civil Law
0.1%
1990
Existent
India
South Asia
Lower Middle
Common Law
17.16%
1949
Indonesia
East Asia & Pacific
Lower Middle
3.37%
1945
Iran
MiddleEast & North Africa
Upper Middle
Civil Law and Religious
Law
Shia Islamic Law
1.07%
1906 (Persian)
Subordinated to the
People's Republic of
China
Federal Parliamentary
Republic
Presidential
Democratic Republic
Islamic Republic
Italy
Western Europe & North America
High
Civil Law
0.86%
1947
Inexistent
Jamaica
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper Middle...
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