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Colombia: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.09ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-7582.8% 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 Colombia from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.093
2024-0.038
2023-0.041
20220.019
2021-0.024
2020-0.018
20190.028
2018-0.005
2017-0.026
20160.016
2015-0.001
2014-0.067
20130.063
20120.031
20110.068
2010-0.034
2009-0.15
2008-0.089
2007-0.23
2006-0.241
2005-0.338
2004-0.286
2003-0.484
2002-0.791
2000-0.44
1998-0.412
1996-0.035

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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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