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Ethiopia: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.62ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-24.5% 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 Ethiopia from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.616
2024-0.695
2023-0.675
2022-0.695
2021-0.632
2020-0.524
2019-0.497
2018-0.504
2017-0.496
2016-0.448
2015-0.494
2014-0.422
2013-0.487
2012-0.387
2011-0.473
2010-0.441
2009-0.474
2008-0.474
2007-0.63
2006-0.743
2005-0.952
2004-1.051
2003-1.486
2002-1.43
2000-1.496
1998-1.496
1996-1.491

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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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