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Bulgaria: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.13ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+1367.5% 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 Bulgaria from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.126
20240.121
20230.102
20220.031
20210.076
20200.038
20190.159
20180.113
20170.068
20160.024
2015-0.01
2014-0.065
2013-0.046
2012-0.081
2011-0.142
2010-0.158
20090.053
2008-0.117
2007-0.18
2006-0.182
2005-0.101
2004-0.057
2003-0.095
2002-0.093
2000-0.364
1998-0.425
1996-0.798

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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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