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Bhutan: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.71ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+79.9% since 2015

Government Effectiveness (GE) captures perceptions of the quality of public services, the civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government’s decisions. Governance estimate from the aggregation model, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) standard error. The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance estimate is based. The standard error indicates the precision of the governance estimate. Larger values indicate less precise estimates. A 90% confidence interval for the governance estimate is given by the estimate +/- 1.64 times the standard error. Annual figures for Bhutan from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.706
20240.576
20230.556
20220.556
20210.672
20200.579
20190.575
20180.62
20170.529
20160.459
20150.392
20140.441
20130.629
20120.505
20110.446
20100.411
20090.369
20080.297
20070.182
20060.167
20050.361
20040.263
20030.194
20020.198
20000.191
19980.192
19960.205

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank Group. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-government-effectiveness-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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