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Kenya: Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate

-0.09ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5) · 2025+63.6% 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 Kenya from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (-2.5 to +2.5))Note
2025-0.089
2024-0.185
2023-0.194
2022-0.234
2021-0.24
2020-0.255
2019-0.158
2018-0.221
2017-0.176
2016-0.197
2015-0.245
2014-0.314
2013-0.32
2012-0.356
2011-0.426
2010-0.399
2009-0.497
2008-0.508
2007-0.575
2006-0.702
2005-0.757
2004-0.768
2003-1.186
2002-1.214
2000-1.019
1998-1.019
1996-0.372

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World Bank (2026). Government Effectiveness - Governance estimate. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-government-effectiveness-governance-estimate (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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