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India: Regulatory Quality - Governance estimate

-0.17ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+51.9% 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 India from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.17
2024-0.09
2023-0.13
2022-0.092
2021-0.188
2020-0.165
2019-0.132
2018-0.188
2017-0.232
2016-0.273
2015-0.352
2014-0.398
2013-0.392
2012-0.405
2011-0.383
2010-0.327
2009-0.294
2008-0.33
2007-0.27
2006-0.252
2005-0.228
2004-0.278
2003-0.481
2002-0.424
2000-0.372
1998-0.581
1996-0.574

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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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