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Finland: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

1.94ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+2.2% 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 Finland from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20251.941
20241.813
20231.863
20221.908
20212.12
20202.058
20192.098
20182.107
20172.071
20161.906
20151.9
20142.02
20132.164
20122.241
20112.211
20102.127
20092.158
20082.074
20071.841
20061.963
20052.163
20042.154
20032.288
20022.29
20002.105
19981.93
19961.701

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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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