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Denmark: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

1.96ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+7.0% 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 Denmark from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20251.959
20241.89
20231.957
20222.058
20212.112
20201.934
20191.961
20181.94
20171.857
20161.862
20151.831
20141.84
20131.94
20121.956
20112.022
20101.911
20092.148
20082.134
20072.193
20062.157
20052.05
20042.092
20032.141
20022.179
20001.958
19981.866
19961.809

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Published by World Bank, produced by World Bank Group. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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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