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Ghana: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.13ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+312.3% 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 Ghana from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.134
20240.086
20230.009
2022-0.017
20210.025
20200.056
20190.06
20180.095
20170.146
20160.138
20150.033
20140.019
20130.011
20120.109
20110.12
20100.123
20090.156
20080.145
20070.045
20060.066
2005-0.262
2004-0.38
2003-0.443
2002-0.308
2000-0.21
1998-0.425
1996-0.157

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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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