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Cameroon: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.79ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-30.3% 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 Cameroon from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.795
2024-0.822
2023-0.809
2022-0.815
2021-0.829
2020-0.859
2019-0.734
2018-0.68
2017-0.624
2016-0.603
2015-0.61
2014-0.549
2013-0.75
2012-0.757
2011-0.767
2010-0.757
2009-0.763
2008-0.821
2007-0.952
2006-1.07
2005-1.067
2004-1.046
2003-1.271
2002-1.265
2000-1.118
1998-1.117
1996-0.966

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

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