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Bulgaria: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

0.34ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-21.0% 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 Bulgaria from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.339
20240.346
20230.404
20220.307
20210.381
20200.375
20190.519
20180.514
20170.576
20160.586
20150.429
20140.364
20130.352
20120.387
20110.382
20100.523
20090.532
20080.648
20070.624
20060.592
20050.647
20040.552
20030.56
20020.427
20000.202
19980.123
1996-0.467

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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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