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Iceland: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

1.07ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025-21.6% 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 Iceland from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20251.065
20241.225
20231.336
20221.427
20211.641
20201.504
20191.556
20181.488
20171.477
20161.345
20151.359
20141.277
20131.217
20121.242
20111.224
20101.074
20091.453
20081.423
20071.704
20061.77
20051.81
20041.792
20031.736
20021.635
20001.423
19981.106
19960.824

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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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