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Eswatini: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.84ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-164.6% 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 Eswatini from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.84
2024-0.921
2023-0.783
2022-0.67
2021-0.748
2020-0.63
2019-0.512
2018-0.487
2017-0.323
2016-0.275
2015-0.317
2014-0.328
2013-0.277
2012-0.276
2011-0.428
2010-0.291
2009-0.471
2008-0.382
2007-0.698
2006-0.667
2005-1.124
2004-1.181
2003-0.844
2002-0.321
2000-0.328
1998-0.327
1996-0.314

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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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