Legacy of Violence Index

In order to comparatively assess the potential demand for transitional justice within countries over time, TJET created a legacy of violence index for 174 countries. For any year, values on the legacy of violence index capture how widespread human rights violations have been in a given country since 1949, compared to the level of human rights violations of all other countries since 1949.

Higher values on the index indicate a greater legacy of violence. For an explanation of the index, see the Methods & FAQs page. The table below shows the index estimate and confidence interval for each country over time and the rankings per year. The table can be filtered to a specific country and/or year and sorted by any of the columns.