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India: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

0.50ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+4.5% 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 India from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
20250.502
20240.508
20230.508
20220.439
20210.359
20200.455
20190.555
20180.552
20170.424
20160.472
20150.48
20140.152
20130.107
20120.093
20110.108
20100.113
20090.122
20080.063
2007-0.034
2006-0.132
2005-0.18
2004-0.208
2003-0.432
2002-0.481
2000-0.561
1998-0.473
1996-0.295

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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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