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China: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.11ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+28.0% 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 China from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.111
2024-0.098
2023-0.107
2022-0.106
2021-0.036
2020-0.024
2019-0.073
2018-0.095
2017-0.065
2016-0.125
2015-0.154
2014-0.147
2013-0.267
2012-0.242
2011-0.122
2010-0.149
2009-0.169
2008-0.107
2007-0.181
2006-0.191
2005-0.302
2004-0.37
2003-0.616
2002-0.666
2000-0.317
1998-0.408
1996-0.327

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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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