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Bhutan: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.09ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+76.3% since 2015

Regulatory Quality (RQ) captures perceptions of the government’s ability to design and implement policies and regulations that promote private sector development. 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
2025-0.093
2024-0.114
2023-0.114
2022-0.115
2021-0.058
2020-0.034
2019-0.068
2018-0.05
2017-0.13
2016-0.354
2015-0.394
2014-0.81
2013-0.919
2012-0.905
2011-0.93
2010-0.933
2009-0.909
2008-0.586
2007-0.491
2006-0.504
2005-0.15
2004-0.659
20030.216
2002-0.144
2000-0.166
1998-0.167
1996-0.184

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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). Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-regulatory-quality-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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