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Ethiopia: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.73ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+21.2% 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 Ethiopia from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.73
2024-0.847
2023-0.85
2022-0.796
2021-0.784
2020-0.833
2019-0.844
2018-0.862
2017-0.911
2016-0.988
2015-0.927
2014-0.931
2013-1.104
2012-0.934
2011-0.865
2010-0.729
2009-0.783
2008-0.714
2007-0.763
2006-0.82
2005-0.961
2004-0.964
2003-1.371
2002-1.437
2000-1.3
1998-1.301
1996-1.518

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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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