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Cabo Verde: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.51ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+3.6% 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 Cabo Verde from 2002 to 2025.

20022025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.512
20240.518
20230.389
20220.37
20210.374
20200.493
20190.52
20180.517
20170.49
20160.46
20150.495
20140.362
20130.241
20120.297
20110.312
20100.308
20090.379
20080.383
20070.388
20060.233
2005-0.188
2004-0.316
2003-0.317
2002-0.313

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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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