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China: Government Effectiveness - Governance score

65.11ordinal scale (0-100) · 2025+5.4% 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 score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated). Annual figures for China from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (0-100))Note
202565.113
202466.756
202364.828
202261.22
202163.56
202064.771
201963.577
201861.639
201762.877
201661.972
201561.767
201460.879
201350.111
201250.295
201151.006
201050.654
200950.263
200850.42
200746.222
200643.541
200542.361
200444.431
200340.932
200240.666
200041.2
199842.237
199646.537

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World Bank (2026). Government Effectiveness - Governance score. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-government-effectiveness-governance-score (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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