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Estonia: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

1.50ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+35.9% 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 Estonia from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20251.5
20241.325
20231.297
20221.35
20211.355
20201.234
20191.212
20181.293
20171.135
20161.129
20151.103
20141.222
20131.096
20121.097
20111.102
20101.105
20091.01
20081.111
20070.945
20060.977
20050.869
20040.831
20030.828
20020.618
20000.539
19980.053
19960.302

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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 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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