Atlas of Impunity: Serbia Scores Lowest in Unaccountable Governance

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According to the world’s first Atlas of Impunity, published on Feb. 17, Serbia’s regional ranking is better only than Bosnia and Herzegovina’s, and its score in the dimension of “unaccountable governance” is worse than its overall ranking.

The Atlas of Impunity presented at the Munich Security Conference, presents a quantitative assessment of impunity measured across five societal dimensions – unaccountable governance, human rights abuse, economic exploitation, conflicts and violence, and environmental degradation.

Based on the average of these five scores, an overall impunity score is given. The higher the overall score, the higher the level of impunity and the higher on the list that the country is.  With a total score of 2.03, Serbia ranks 111th, with its highest ranking in the area of human rights (1.37), which places it in 116th position. In the "conflicts and violence" and "economic exploitation" dimensions it ranked 108th, scoring 1.58 and 1.59 scores, respectively.

Serbia’s weakest point is "unaccountable governance," graded 2.91 [82nd], and the next is “environmental degradation,” for which Serbia was awarded a score of 2.9 [115th]. Other countries of the region are in the same "neutral" group. North Macedonia [119th], Albania [115th] and Montenegro [113th] ranked better than Serbia, while Bosnia’s impunity score is higher [97th]. The other states of the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Slovenia, are ranked as "good" countries. Croatia ranked 133rd with an impunity score of 1.28, while Slovenia’s impunity score of 0.96 put it in 149th place.