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Kenya: Government Effectiveness - Governance score

50.51ordinal scale (0-100) · 2025+6.7% 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 score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated). Annual figures for Kenya from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (ordinal scale (0-100))Note
202550.515
202448.552
202348.371
202247.544
202147.437
202047.124
201949.116
201847.814
201748.748
201648.306
201547.321
201445.91
201345.79
201245.054
201143.629
201044.177
200942.169
200841.941
200740.58
200637.978
200536.839
200436.634
200328.061
200227.487
200031.487
199831.494
199644.728

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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 score. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-government-effectiveness-governance-score (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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