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Eswatini: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.68ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-101.5% 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 Eswatini from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.676
2024-0.636
2023-0.582
2022-0.582
2021-0.458
2020-0.466
2019-0.464
2018-0.45
2017-0.342
2016-0.363
2015-0.335
2014-0.341
2013-0.261
2012-0.358
2011-0.385
2010-0.363
2009-0.376
2008-0.393
2007-0.532
2006-0.414
2005-0.635
2004-0.769
2003-0.361
2002-0.363
2000-0.421
1998-0.421
1996-0.433

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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). 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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